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Norm Moser

Norm Moser is a writer who lives in Berkeley, California. His most recent collection of fiction is El Grito del Norte and Other Stories (Illuminations Press, 2110 9th Street, Apt. B, Berkeley, California 94710).

— From June 1985
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

A Matter Of Degree

It’s not the mere existence of pornography that troubles me. We’ve always had it. It’s the amount of it that’s the problem. Never before, to my knowledge, has the world had so very much printed and cinematic pornography. It will not go away by itself, so it cannot be ignored.

June 1985
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

The Deposed King

I live now like a deposed king, which is to say, with a slight air of once-proud nobility I cling to as I cling to the rags and tatters of my existence because it’s all I’ve got left.

July 1976
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

The Dream House

It is a large, very old, grey-green house with brown shutters, a long porch in front with a portion of it screened in. There is no lawn to speak of.

March 1976
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Fecundity/Nature &/Or

The happy people with big hips and watery lips pulled up by the river and sat down, spent. There trout bubbled at them, trees shaded and grass waved.

December 1975
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Spiritual Judo

The usual assumption about power is that there is only one kind — physical. Spiritual power exists too, though the two are not entirely unrelated, in my experience anyway.

September 1975
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