After the Fire

by Fred Bubbers
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Publish Date: November 28, 2009
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A poignant memoir and tribute to a teacher whose lessons to a young writer still inspire and teach decades later.

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Fred Bubbers

Fred Bubbers grew up in Elmhurst, NY where he attended Newtown High School. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1982 from The State University of New York at Albany, where his writing appeared in various student publications. Since then he has been employed in the software industry in various roles from software engineer to data warehouse architect to development director. In 2005, he rediscovered his love of writing. His personal essays, short stories and poems have appeared in such publications as The Oregon Literary Review, The Square Table, The Green Silk Journal, Lily, Seeker Magazine, Static Movement, Word Riot, The Angler, Cantaraville, and Loch Raven Review.

He counts among his various influences, and in no particular order, Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, George Carlin, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Kurt Vonnegut, J.D. Salinger, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Joni Mitchell, James Joyce, Emily Bronte, Carl Sagan, William Shakespeare, Alan Ginsberg, Homer, BB King, Joseph Conrad, Mark Twain, Albert Camus, Neil Young, Charles D'Ambrosio, Arthur Miller, Chico Marx, Annie Proulx, Ian Fleming, Kenneth Burke, William Faulkner, Wallace Stevens, Stephen Jay Gould, Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Miles, Eugene O'Neill, Bob Dylan, Flannery O'Connor, Gish Jen, Woody Allen, Harold Bloom, Amy Hempel, Raymond Carver, Robert Altman, Sylvia Plath, John Updike, John Cheever, but most of all, the original odd couple, his beloved F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.

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1.I could relate

Posted May 18, 2011 by I liked it, Oklahoma City

I thought it was a well thought out story. I could relate to the those years spent writing for school projects. I could picture the characters and thought they were well formed. It was worth the read.
2.Ok.

Posted April 25, 2011 by Ashley, Decatur, AL

I found it kind of boring. He talks a lot about learning to develop emotion in his writing but I found myself very disconnected from it as a whole. I didn't hate it but I also don't recommend it.