A Time to Be Born

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Set against an atmospheric backdrop of New York City in the months just before America’ s entry into World War II, A Time To Be Born is a scathing and hilarious study of cynical New Yorkers stalking each other for various selfish ends. At the center of the story are a wealthy, self-involved newspaper publisher and his scheming, novelist wife, Amanda Keeler. Powell always denied that Amanda Keeler was based upon the real-life Clare Boothe Luce, until years later when she discovered a memo she’d written to herself in 1939 that said, “Why not do a novel on Clare Luce?” Which prompted Powell to write in her diary “Who can I believe? Me or myself?”

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Dawn Powell: Novels 1930-1942 (Library of America)

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"Wittier than Dorothy Parker, dissects the rich better than F. Scott Fitzgerald, is more plaintive than Willa Cather in her evocation of the heartland and has a more supple control of satirical voice than Evelyn Waugh, the writer to whom she's most often compared." (Lisa Zeidner, The New York Times)

For decades after her death, Dawn Powell's work was out of print, cherished by a small band of admirers. Only recently has there been renewed awareness of the novelist who was such a vital presence in literary Greenwich Village from the 1920s to the 1960s.

Dawn Powell was the tirelessly observant chronicler of two very different worlds: the small-town Ohio of her childhood and the sophisticated Manhattan to which she gravitated. If her Ohio novels are more melancholy and compassionate in their depiction of often frustrated lives, her Manhattan novels, with their cast of writers, show people, businessmen, and hustling hangers-on, are more exuberant and incisive. But all show rich characterization and a flair for the gist of social complexities. A playful satirist, an unsentimental observer of failed hopes and misguided longings, Dawn Powell is a literary rediscovery of rare importance.

Edited by Tim Page.

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Turn, Magic Wheel

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Dennis Orphen, in writing a novel, has stolen the life story of his friend, Effie Callingham, the former wife of a famous, Hemingway-like novelist, Andrew Callingham. Orphen’s betrayal is not the only one, nor the worst one, in this hilarious satire of the New York literary scene. (Powell personally considered this to be her best New York novel.) Powell takes revenge here on all publishers, and her baffoonish MacTweed is a comic invention worthy of Dickens. And as always in Powell’s New York novels, the city itself becomes a central character: “On the glittering black pavement legs hurried by with umbrella tops, taxis skidded along the curb, their wheels swishing through the puddles, raindrops bounced like dice in the gutter.” Powell’s famous wit was never sharper than here, but Turn, Magic Wheel is also one of the most poignant and heart-wrenching of her novels.

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The Vampire's Light at Dawn - The Vampire Redemption Series - Part 4

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**UPDATE: Look out for the next installments, Part 7 - The Vampire's Prophet and Part 8 - The Vampire's Ascension coming soon.

THE BOX SET - Parts 1 to 5 - IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR $9.99 amazon.com/Box-Set-Vampire-Redemption-ebook/dp/B007TSLHDA (Individual Parts 1 to 6 are $3.99 each),

This trendsetting PARANORMAL SERIES advances with "Part 6 - The Vampire's Celebration." 

This serialized saga will keep you begging for more as each Part drops you in the middle of the action and leaves you spellbound with a cliffhanger ending. Strap on to your e-reader as it takes you for a thrilling ride through the epic battles of Holy Angels and Vampires.

In The Spiritual Year 0, Lucifer and 1/3 of the Holy Angels fell to Earth when they tried to overthrow Heaven.

Lucifer's hordes were transformed to vampires upon their entry.

Adonari, one of those fallen angels devoted himself to the Vampiric way of life until-

Something beckoned him back to the fold.

Now named Victor Saul, he realized there was a price to pay.

He set out on a journey to find redemption dragging all of Heaven and 

Hell in the battle for his spirit and also for mankind.

8,050 years after the Day of The Fall, Lucifer will stop at nothing to attempt another coup on the Celestial Throne.

Holy Angels are caught in the epic battle of Good and Evil.

All, including Victor and his friends, must choose sides in the battle for the soul of the universe.

If you love biting paranormal with tons of twists then The Vampire Redemption Series is for you.

Conrad Powell's Additional Works:

(Thriller) The Coyaba Protocol Series: Book 1 - The Coyaba Protocol.

Part 1 - The Tainos - What does JFK, Marilyn Monroe, all famous stars, The US Federal Government's secret Coyaba Protocol, a supposedly mythical place called Coyaba Gardens, a secret society called Baphomet headquartered under The Hollywood Hills, and a first year student at Harvard University have in common? Did you think all famous stars really died so young?

(Sci-Fi Thriller) The Assurance Series: Book 1 - The Assurance.

Part 1 - Bank Job - It is the year 2096. What if you could commit a crime and assured of never getting caught? Well all you need is criminal liability insurance brought to you by VOYD Corporation, an underground company that makes sure you don't get caught. When a typical bank robbery goes wrong, Norman Wright, their manager, starts digging for clues to a recurring dream which exposes the Corporation. Will he have the courage to take them on?

(Thriller) The Detective Lester Jayson Series: Book 1 - Island Heist.

Part 1 - Joshua Fall - On a routine murder investigation in Brooklyn, New York, Detective Lester Jayson unearths a plot to rob the Bank of Jamaica in the Island Nation. He travels to Jamaica to thwart the heist only to find himself the target of a major conspiracy and assassination attempt on his own life. Who wants him out of the way? Why?

(Romance) The Betrayal Series:

Part 1 - Betrayal -A tragic car accident weaves the lives of a man, his wife who is a doctor, and his two lovers in what can only be described as a love square.

(Young Adult) The Nikolas Sander Series: Book 1 - Eve Ate, Adam Didn't:

Part 1 - Leviathan's Whisper - A young boy is transported back to the time of Adam and Eve after drinking the tears of the crucifix that cried at his local church. He stops Adam from eating the forbidden fruit and humanity is turned upside down.

(Short Stories):


#1 - The Walking Men: A Holocaust short story
about Seven Jews on death row on the eve of the end of WWII.

#2 - Osama bin Laden is Not Dead: How President
Barack Obama Faked Osama's Death.

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The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965

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Powell had a brilliant mind and a keen wit and her humor was never at a finer pitch than in her diaries. And yet her story is a poignant one – a son emotionally and mentally impaired, a household of too much alcohol and never enough money, and an artistic career that, if not a failure, fell far short of the success she craved. All is recorded here – along with working sketches for her novels, and often revealing portraits of her many friends (a literary who’s who of her period) – in her always unique style and without self-delusion.
With the publication of Tim Page’s biography of Powell planned for this fall, and with all of her best works now back in print, it would appear that Dawn Powell has clearly ‘arrived’ to take her deserved place in American letters. And her remarkable Diaries will stand as one of her finest literary achievements.

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Dawn Powell has often been overlooked since her death at 67 in 1965, but her brilliant novels, such as Angels On Toast, A Time to Be Born and The Wicked Pavilion are returning to print. And to accompany her rediscovery, The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965 presents a wondrous evocation of the writing life. More than mere diaries, Powell's journals are at times a workbook presenting many fully-formed narratives. There are thoughtful pieces about why she feels compelled to write and gripes about how writers live. And scattered throughout are witty and gossipy essays about living in literary New York and socializing and working with such characters as Edmund Wilson, John Dos Passos, her editor Max Perkins, and the woman to whom she was often unfairly compared,Dorothy Parker.

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The Locusts Have No King

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No one has satirized New York society quite like Dawn Powell, and in this classic novel she turns her sharp eye and stinging wit on the literary world, and "identifies every sort of publishing type with the patience of a pathologist removing organs for inspection." Frederick Olliver, an obscure historian and writer, is having an affair with the restively married, beautiful, and hugely successful playwright, Lyle Gaynor. Powell sets a see-saw in motion when Olliver is swept up by the tasteless publishing tycoon, Tyson Bricker, and his new book makes its way onto to the bestseller lists just as Lyle's Broadway career is coming apart.
"For decades Dawn Powell was always just on the verge of ceasing to be a cult and becoming a major religion." -- Gore Vidal

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