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Jack DeWitt
Noir is Dark


Cape News Article: The Hitchhiker
The latest Cape News article. Retreating to the last refuge of the scoundrel (coward): nostalgia. At Witt's End: The Hitchhiker
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Dec 22, 20241 min read
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Mother's Day at Cape News
Read Jack's article honoring his mother for mother's day on Cape News: At Witt's End: Mother's Day for Mary C.
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May 10, 20241 min read
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50 Must Read Books
Kustomrama Encyclopedia has chosen Cool Cars, High Art: The Rise of Kustom Kulture as one of the 50 must-read books for auto enthusiasts...
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Apr 9, 20231 min read
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Review: Beat Bop by Don Sloan
On friend of independent authors and Publishers Daily Reviews founder Don Sloan's blog, Beat Bop got another favorable review. Get the...
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Jan 20, 20231 min read
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Review: Delicious Little Traitor by AJ Sabatini
As a guest reviewer on Michael Gillan Maxwell's blog, AJ Sabatini details the political intrigue weaving itself into Varian Pike's life...
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Nov 5, 20221 min read
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New Blurb for Finger Food (1982)
From Printed Matter, Inc.: Collection of often funny sometimes poignant poems contains two separate but related works: Cock Dreams and...
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Nov 5, 20221 min read
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Two Poems Published
The April poetry issue of On the Seawall, a writing site managed by the poet Ron Slate, is now live. Two of my poems are included. Check...
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Apr 16, 20221 min read
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The Enterprise Announces Varian Pike Series
A local Cape Cod paper The Enterprise did a nice writeup in 2018 covering the launch of the Varian Pike series. "Bourne Author Launches...
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Dec 24, 20211 min read
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Poetry Sunday at WCAI
I had an opportunity in 2019 to read my poem "Edgartown" for the local NPR for the Cape, Coast, and the Islands. Listen here
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Dec 24, 20211 min read
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Designs For/On Ahti
When I was a graduate student in English at the University of Connecticut, I met a group of fans of the psychologist Carl Jung. The group...
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Dec 24, 20211 min read
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Finger Food
Sandra Lerner and Sue Horvitz were artist friends who also ran a small press that published artist books. They heard me read a series of...
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Dec 24, 20212 min read
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Why I'm Almost Grown
More than ten years ago, I started writing poems about growing up in Stamford, Connecticut in the 1950’s. I have always felt that there...
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Dec 24, 20212 min read
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Noir Didn't End with Spade and Marlow
Read my guest post on Marc S. Bacon's blog Nostalgia City Mysteries From 2015, discussing noir as a genre
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Dec 24, 20211 min read
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The Big Thrill Interview
Check out one of the early interviews I did in 2015 when Delicious Little Traitor was first picked up by Black Opal Books The Big Thrill
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Dec 24, 20211 min read
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Motoring On
Published in The American Poetry Review Volume 43 No. 3 An excerpt: There is a horsepower war going on now that is much more intense than...
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Dec 24, 20211 min read
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Car Stars on TV
Published in The American Poetry Review Volume 42 No. 3 An excerpt: The first car to be a real star on a TV series was Norm Grabowski’s...
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Dec 24, 20211 min read
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Rat Rods
Published in The American Poetry Review Volume 40 No. 6 An excerpt: In the 1997 Kirk Jones, a graphic designer, and Jay Ward, an art...
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Dec 24, 20211 min read
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Larry Watson: Painter
Published in The American Poetry Review Volume 40 No. 2 An excerpt: During the week of July 20th 2010, the New York Times noted the...
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Dec 24, 20211 min read
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The Cars of American Graffiti
Published in The American Poetry Review Volume 39 No. 5 An excerpt: American Graffiti was the surprise hit of 1973. Made on a budget of...
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Dec 24, 20211 min read
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