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	Thom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alexander Thom Professor Alexander Thom (1894 - 1985) was a Megalithic yard.
		Angkor Thom Angkor Thom was the fortified inner royal city built by Chams.
		Thom Goolsby Thom Goolsby is a North Carolina Council of State election, 2004.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/thom.html (146 words)

	RELAX! @ The Movies with Thom: Bridget Jones’s Diary
		Jones (Zellweger) is a member of that most dreaded of groups, the over thirty and single club.
		Jones may look like a buffoon to all around her, but we root for her anyway, because we know what it’s like to be humiliated by people we can’t stand, sometimes on a continual basis.
		Jones, what you end up with is a sweet, funny riff on the nature of life and love, plus maybe a smile on your face as you leave the theatre to boot.
	home.earthlink.net /~macphoenix/lounge/newlounge/movies/bridgetjones.html (701 words)

	SouthernIN.com - Contemporary Treasures: Darryl Jones
		Jones and Thom met within a month after Jones and his family moved to Owen County, and the two soon became good friends.
		It is apparent not only in listening to Jones, but also in seeing his work, that he views his home state with reverence and appreciation; particularly the space into which he has settled with his family.
		My son was in the 9th grade, and my daughter was going into 6th grade, and we were really hoping to move from the big city out to the country so for some part of their lives we could be a family out in the country.
	www.southernin.com /Pages/archives/october_99/d_jones.html (1624 words)

	Tom Jones
		Thomas Jones Woodward was born in Pontypridd, South Wales, in 1940.
		At the age of 16, he fathered a child with his teenage love who married the Welsh son of a coal miner of the Rhondda Valley 44 years ago - when he was still a poor bricklayer.
		Tom Jones has one of the most incredible and sexiest male voices in show business, comparable to greats like Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley (in completely other genres of course).
	www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo8/tomjones.htm (710 words)

	Thom Jones
		Thom has also been a youth pastor at Los Gatos Christian Church, an elder at Mountain Bible Church, a summer missionary in Honduras, a Silver Creek High School football coach, a life insurance agent and a nationally ranked masters’ track and field decathlete whose best event was the 110 yard high hurdles.
		Thom foresees a time in which a command center, made up of multiple agencies, is a part of the mountain community.
		Thom has assisted in the sheriff’s community surveys, the open forum meeting regarding community traffic concerns, giving Halloween safety tips to children at local schools, recruitment, inter-office activities, responding to Loma Prieta district vandalism, theft and judging school science fairs.
	www.mnn.net /thomjones.htm (659 words)

	salon :: :: books :: review :: Sonny Liston Was A Friend Of Mine, By Kate Sekules :: Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The title story of Thom Jones' third collection, "Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine," centers on a boxer, but just about every character in these 12 tales has a fight on his hands.
		Jones' world is as atmospheric as a song by Bob Dylan or Leonard Cohen or Tom Waits.
		Jones' typical character is in combat -- against the Viet Cong, the ocean, diabolical colleagues, depression, diabetes.
	dir.salon.com /books/sneaks/1999/02/09sneaks.html (569 words)

	Tucson Weekly: Writing In Ernest (March 11 - March 17, 1999)
		Sure, Jones writes some stories about boxing and battle, but so do Joan Didion and Joyce Carol Oates, and nobody has claimed that they "update and extend the legacy of Hemingway." To base a comparison to Hemingway on gender and subject is like calling a Twinkie pastry.
		Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine is a redundancy for Jones, a remake of his second book of stories, which was a dim simulacrum of his first.
		And as to style, when Jones (or any other writer) changes the way the sentence is written in English for good and for all, or conveys so palpably the visceral meanings engendered by experience of the physical world, then let's talk about extending the Hemingway legacy.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/03-11-99/book3.htm (388 words)

	In Person: Thom Jones
		But Jones is not the pent-up hellraiser one might expect from reading that brief biographical sketch of him.
		Many of Jones' stories focus on military life and Vietnam, even though Jones was discharged just before being sent overseas.
		Jones later married his deceased best friend's girlfriend, who one day mentioned that it was the friend's birthday.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/vol18/issue29/books.inperson.html (322 words)

	NPR : Writer THOM JONES was a boxer in the Marines in the mid-1960s
		NPR : Writer THOM JONES was a boxer in the Marines in the mid-1960s
		Writer THOM JONES was a boxer in the Marines in the mid-1960s
		Fresh Air from WHYY, July 8, 1993 · 2: Writer THOM JONES was a boxer in the Marines in the mid-1960s.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1107047 (216 words)

	The Pugilist At Rest
		In Jones' war stories the experiences both of battle and of the military is continuous with the world of Jones' characters both before and after the war.
		Maintaining an essential and not uncourageous ambivalence, Jones explores the ambiguous, overjammed memories of the war neither as epic symbols nor as the occassion for didactic sermonizing but rather as a personal/cultural Rorschach test dissolving frozen images of the past into dynamic, subtly shifting, continually (and disturbingly) changing relationships between past and present.
		While we're on the upside, when Jones is on his mark there isn't a single writer in the U.S. today as easily attuned to the polyglot of speech dialects through which mass consciousness streams.
	www.altx.com /interzones/leggiere/jones.html (535 words)

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		While not quite among the elder statespeople of minorities in advertising (she is presently in her mid-50s, while Thom Burrell is approaching 60), it cannot be said that Caroline Jones has not seen and/or done much in her 21 years in the field of advertising.
		He was dedicated, as Caroline Jones and Thom Burrell were, to doing what he could to ensure that the reach of the minority audiences he tailored and reinterpreted his clients’ messages to exceeded their grasps.
		Burrell, Jones, and Mingo took on the weight of every attitude their clients had about them, and proved they could succeed well enough to compete against the agencies with which they often shared client business.
	www.ciadvertising.org /studies/student/98_spring/practitioner/tcf.html (1460 words)

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		Jones is on tour to promote Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine, his third book of short stories.
		His first, The Pugilist at Rest, was a big deal because it was very good, as was his follow-up, Cold Snap, and Thom was a big deal because he’s a terrifically photogenic busted hoodlum, his plug-ugly tough guy—writer swagger mitigated by diabetes, epilepsy, major depression and whatever else happens to be wrong at the moment.
		There was an epiphany in Jones’ career, something that came to him in the midst of an epileptic seizure, about the time he quit drinking and started writing in earnest.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/printme.php?eid=3837 (1053 words)

	eye - BOOKS: Thom Jones, a writer at rest and motion - 10.19.95 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jones excelled at tough, funny, human stories about people in dire straits and on heavy drugs.
		In another interview, Jones said that the best and quickest way for a writer to interest a reader in characters is to put them in physical pain.
		Life, to Jones and his characters, is often solely a matter of being properly medicated.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_10.19.95/ARTS/bo1019b.htm (848 words)

	Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine :: Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine books, reviews and more (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Thom Jones "Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine".
		Thom Kuehls "Beyond Sovereign Territory The Space of Ecopolitics Borderlines V 4".
		Thom Lemmons "Woman of Means Lemmons Thom Daughters of Faith 2".
	www.usedbooksseller.com /410461thom_jones.html (167 words)

	Seattle Weekly - books: Books Quarterly: The sweet science of literary revenge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		If you are among the jerks who have furthered the pain in Thom Jones' life, among the things he might do is snap your miserable ass into a short story that will be read by your grandchildren.
		I n another story, "Mouses," Jones considers the nature of happiness from the point of view of a man who ain't getting a lot of it: "Happiness is like the gold in the Yukon mines," he writes, "found only now and then, as it were, by the caprices of chance.
		In Jones' writing room, just off the main entryway, the walls are decorated with an old recruiting sign--"The Marine Corps Builds Men!"--and the magazine covers that resulted from one of the most storied days in American publishing.
	www.seattleweekly.com /features/9909/books-barcott.shtml (1565 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Cold Snap : Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jones' disappointing follow-up, _Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine_, unfortunately shows that this is not a formula with unlimited longevity.
		Jones doesn't seem to be able to master the concept that women of a certain generation, regardless of caste, do not think in terms consistent with each fifteenth word being some permutation of "shit".
		Jones was the first writer in probably a generation with the courage to take the gloves off with truth about our inner lives ("If she were my wife, she would have been a splat on the wall.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0316472573?v=glance (1754 words)

	Biblio: Cold Snap: Stories by Thom Jones: Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"...Jones' characters seldom are inviting, as they might be divided between those trying to die and those barely reconciled to continuing to live.
		Regardless, you are bound to each by Jones' deftly visceral, febrile writing....It is Jones' rich genius that he can create empathy where it is least expected, bring you into the personal hell of characters who, objectively, may be utterly foreign; and have you come away loving it, feeling a hope in the despair.
		Jones writes from the assumption that people are neither completely sane nor in complete control of their lives, rather they are insane to varying degrees and in denial of the lack of control to the extent that it suits them.
	www.biblio.com /books/isbnnu/28260822.html (597 words)

	eye - BOOKS: The Pugilist at Rest -- Thom Jones - 08.11.94 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Thom Jones -- he of the wisely-placed "h" so as not to be confused withka Radakovich, primarily known as a columnist for Details, has been below the belt of a few men.
		Of course, it's unfair to turn his fort into a checklist, because a list of credits doesn't mean much if you can't write great sentences, and Jones can definitely write great sentences.
		Trendy though he may be, Thom Jones' power is undeniable.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_08.11.94/ARTS/bo0811b.htm (147 words)

	Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine by Thom Jones, 0316472239, Lowest Book Price Finder
		Thom has been promising his first novel for sometime now though if he keeps delivering books like this, I think his first novel could wait another year or five.
		Jones isn't a terrible writer but he's nothing like the second coming of Robert Stone and Hemingway as he's been hyped.
		Thom Jones writes with wit, compassion, and a wickedly dark sense of humour as he brings his characters stories to light for the reader.
	www.bookfinder4u.co.uk /book_detail/0316472239 (779 words)

	thom jones: overnightessays.com- an extensive database of university level essays, book reports, term papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ron Jones ' work The Acorn People, is a moving story of a group of young handicapped children during a two-week stay during the summer at Camp Wiggin.
		Ron Jones, the writer is also a camp counselor who, unprepared for the nature of his charges' handicaps, operates initially under a very limiting view of what these boys and girls will be able to do.
		That aside, Jones ' account of these children is a moving testimonial to the strength of the spirit and the fact that who we are...
	www.overnightessays.com /term-papers/5501/thom-jones.html (362 words)

	Buy.com - Pugilist at Rest: Stories : Thom Jones : ISBN 0316473049
		Thom Jones made his literary debut in The New Yorker in 1991.
		The publication of The Pugilist at Rest is a major literary event, heralding the arrival of an electrifying new voice in American fiction, and a writer of magnificent depth and range.
		In 1963, Jones joined the Marine Corps and was due to be sent to Vietnam, but he was injured in a boxing match that not only forced his discharge but left him an epileptic.
	www.buy.com /prod/Pugilist_at_Rest_Stories/q/loc/106/30048144.html (647 words)

	v7n74
		Jones, whose previous works include "The Pugilist at Rest" and "Cold Snap," is a revolutionary short story writer, said Stephen Cooper, an associate professor in English and film.
		Jones is "one of the premier short story writers of our time," Cooper said to the audience of about 100.
		Jones' candidness punctuated the evening leaving many in the audience impressed.
	www.csulb.edu /~d49er/spring00/news/v7n74-writer.html (410 words)

	990125ENaued.HTML (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jones' newest collection of short stories, "Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine," follows in the footsteps of his previous two collections, "Cold Snap" and "The Pugilist at Rest," which was a finalist for the National Book Award.
		I was in the world, but not of it." Another story, "Daddy's Girl," chronicles the troubles of a Southern family through the eyes of a 92-year-old woman who has maintained her faith despite the harsh reality of life and the transgressions of those around her.
		Jones presents a dark, but riveting and truthful picture of the seamy underside of human life.
	www.olemiss.edu /news/dm/archives/99/9901/990125/990125ENaued.HTML (584 words)

	The Pugilist at Rest : Stories by Thom Jones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Thom Jones's first collection of stories is a revelation.
		Thom Jones' "Pugilist at Rest" is a fine collection of stories.
		In the same league as O'Brien's "The Things They Carried," Jones' war stories will no doubt be long considered as essential reading on the Vietnam War.
	www.internetcross.com /item/0316473049 (515 words)

	Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine : Stories - Hotel Resource Book Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		My only criticism of this book is a tiny one-- i felt disappointed in "A Run Through the Jungle" when Jones felt it necessary to point out the karmic significance of the fiery death of the road-runner killer.
		Jones is an author who writes about what he knows.
		Thank God that Jones had the strength of character to keep her alive.
	www.hotelresource.com /bookstore/asinsearch_0316472409.html (301 words)

	City Pages - Thom Jones: <I>Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine</I> (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A frequent New Yorker contributor and eternal prize-winner/contender, Jones made the map with his first collection of stories, The Pugilist at Rest ; his sophomore outing, Cold Snap, confirmed his status as one of our best, a writer who could manage to spin yarns that were cinematically simple, tonally edgy, and emotionally winsome.
		Frankie is a high-school student with a lithium prescription, a movie-theater job, and a permanent boner; his humiliation by his peers is only the prelude to the more gruesome lesson he learns in the projection booth.
		Jones stretches furthest in what may be the book's best story, "Daddy's Girl"; here, a 92-year-old woman recounts her and her sisters' lives with a seemingly easy yet well-earned grace.
	www.citypages.com /databank/20/947/article7078.asp (753 words)

	The Pugilist at Rest : Stories (Thom Jones)
		There's also the surreal, Gogol-esque humor of "The Black Lights," in which the pysch-ward protagonist insists his only problem is epilepsy, yet hallucinates a giant, shuddering rabbit caught under his bed at night ("It's that rabbit on the Br'er Rabbit molasses jar.
		There was one story, about a woman dying, that I thought was a bit melo-dramatic, but most of the stories were quick, hard-hitting, and insightful.
		Thom Jones writes like a person may think.
	johnkeyes.com /a/0316473049-the-pugilist-at-rest-stories.html (742 words)

	Cold Snap by Thom Jones
		A transformation occurs within the Jones hero of Cold Snap, the author's second collection.
		Those men who are not, or were not, licensed physicians, cling to illness and disease as a philatelist clings to stamps.
		Though the Jones hero has come full circle, from America to Africa and back again, he is only more experienced, not more knowledgeable.
	www.unc.edu /~ottotwo/coldsnap.html (749 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine: Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Having found Thom Jones through the recomendation of Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club, Survivor) in interviews, I now feel like writing to Chuck to thank him.
		Jones writes about desperate characters, about moments where lives are ruined or saved.
		Thom Jones' stories hit you with a sucker punch straight to your soul - the force is so devastating, the effect so powerful that the only thing left to do is to laugh at the absurdity of it all.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0316472409 (956 words)

	Clarence: Cultura e Spettacolo - Società delle Menti - Thom Jones
		Jones vende tantissimo perché è letto soprattutto dai giovani.
		Leggere un racconto di Thom Jones equivale a sottoporsi a una scarica di adrenalina purissima.
		Jones, che nella vita ha fatto il marine in Vietnam e il pugile (105 incontri al suo attivo: non si è trattato, quindi, di un hobby o di un vezzo estetico), ha esordito a quarantasei anni.
	www.clarence.com /contents/cultura-spettacolo/societamenti/speciali/001130thomjones (706 words)

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