Hi everyone, welcome to an independent bookstore and we have a second location in jersey city, you can find more information about us and sign up for emails about our pics at weird books. Com. We are still so honored to be here reading then next book iron gone, the merrimack and the civil war battle and lets get around of applause for the new book. He has previously been editorinchief at American Heritage magazine, written several books including two novels in the book of poetry. And he has written for films including the pbs film coney island, thank you so much for coming and enjoy. Come on up. Thank you very much. And thank you, what a nice store. And thank you for having me. This is the books publication date. For the last few weeks that ive been in what a writer friend of mine called the calm before the lowell. And im pleased and honored to have iron gone make its debut not only in brooklyn but in greenpoint. Brooklyn has many technological wonders, the cyclone coaster. But perhaps
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Husband and two ladies. You never see one woman with three husbands. Because yall are a headache to deal with with one. Fishing, its calm, its boring. Its very rarely a case of life and death, but thats exactly what this video is. It is a spear fishing video from costa rica. They spear a 50pound tuna, it was still fighting. They put another spear into it, but with two spears, means theres a lot of line in the water, as well. Starts fighting back and swims around and wrapped it around his leg. Hes been caught by the fish. Hows that feel . Terrifying, because the fish heads down. Oh, no. This fish is far stronger than he can pull up. He starts vanishing down to davy jones locker with this line feeling in the world when you have no control. Right, and no breath. He had a snorkel. Hes not scuba diving. Eventually, bang, you can see he comes back, had a dive knife with him, frees himself and the fish and makes it back up to the top of the water just in time. Wow, talk about a literal breath
Husband and two ladies. You never see one woman with three husbands. Because yall are a headache to deal with with one. Fishing, its calm, its boring. Its very rarely a case of life and death, but thats exactly what this video is. It is a spear fishing video from costa rica. They spear a 50pound tuna, it was still fighting. They put another spear into it, but with two spears, means theres a lot of line in the water, as well. Starts fighting back and swims around and wrapped it around his leg. Hes been caught by the fish. Hows that feel . Terrifying, because the fish heads down. Oh, no. This fish is far stronger than he can pull up. He starts vanishing down to davy jones locker with this line feeling in the world when you have no control. Right, and no breath. He had a snorkel. Hes not scuba diving. Eventually, bang, you can see he comes back, had a dive knife with him, frees himself and the fish and makes it back up to the top of the water just in time. Wow, talk about a literal breath
Husband and two ladies. You never see one woman with three husbands. Because yall are a headache to deal with with one. Fishing, its calm, its boring. Its very rarely a case of life and death, but thats exactly what this video is. It is a spear fishing video from costa rica. They spear a 50pound tuna, it was still fighting. They put another spear into it, but with two spears, means theres a lot of line in the water, as well. Starts fighting back and swims around and wrapped it around his leg. Hes been caught by the fish. Hows that feel . Terrifying, because the fish heads down. Oh, no. This fish is far stronger than he can pull up. He starts vanishing down to davy jones locker with this line feeling in the world when you have no control. Right, and no breath. He had a snorkel. Hes not scuba diving. Eventually, bang, you can see he comes back, had a dive knife with him, frees himself and the fish and makes it back up to the top of the water just in time. Wow, talk about a literal breath