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Dooling Fiction

Google Book Search

January 30, 2008

If you haven’t tried Google Book Search yet, try it out on a few of my books. If you have the time, you can read the whole book online: Critical Care: A Novel, by Richard Dooling; White Man’s Grave: A Novel, by Richard Dooling; Brain Storm: A Novel, by Richard Dooling; Bet Your Life: A [...]

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Bush Pigs, by Richard Dooling

March 19, 2007

The U.S. government sent me to Sierra Leone to help starving Africans, but at least half the time, the starving Africans took care of me. For every week I was able to hobble out of my hut, I spent two more curled up on a tick mattress with dysentery or malaria. When the fever was upon me, soothsayers called “looking-around men” came and washed their eyes with lotions made from magic leaves; then they threw stones on a mat and told my fortune. The prognosis was always bad, the cures and propitiatory sacrifices were always expensive.

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Diary of an Immortal Man

February 11, 2006

Short Fiction by Richard Dooling Diary Of An Immortal Man was a cover story for Esquire Magazine and was nominated for a National Magazine Award. The full text appears online at Kurzweil AI. Diary Of An Immortal Man is kinky science fiction and black comedy, inspired in part by Ray Kurzweil’s tremendous book, The Age [...]

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The Journals of Eleanor Druse

February 11, 2004

A Novel by Richard Dooling Read the first chapter of The Journals of Eleanor Druse at Amazon. I wrote this book as a tie-in to the Stephen King’s Kingdom Hospital project. Eleanor Druse, inspired by the original character from Lars Von Trier’s mini-series and played by Diane Ladd in our version, was a delightful voice [...]

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Bet Your Life

February 11, 2002

A Novel by Richard Dooling New York Times Notable Book of 2002 Read the first chapter of Bet Your Life at the New York Times site. Set in Omaha, Nebraska, the author’s hometown, Bet Your Life turns the death of Lenny Stillmach–a young insurance investigator, a scam buster who may have been a scam artist [...]

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