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[LIT] If Keith Buckley’s semi-autobiographical character Ray Goldman is paying any attention to Buckley’s co-readers at the Buffalo, Books, and Beers (“B3”) reading next Wednesday at Resurgence Brewing Company, he’d best be in the market for running shoes. Joining the burnout Goldman’s quest for redemption are Brian Castner and Mishka Shubaly’s more directly autobiographical subjects of their works The Long Walk, and The Long Run respectively. Castner’s 2012 book chronicled his struggle to recover from the mental and physical injuries he endured as a bomb-disposal technician in Iraq, returning to his family and using long runs as a way of dealing with the lingering effects of post-traumatic stress. Meanwhile Shubaly’s best-selling “Kindle single” book chronicles his conversion from a crippling drug and alcohol addiction to burning his demons with long-distance running. Shabuly will read from his newest book I Swear I’ll Make it Up to You. Castner’s The Long Walk catapulted him to wider acclaim as a writer and journalist, allowing him the opportunity to cover last year’s Ebola outbreak extensively and to dive deep into the circumstances surrounding the death of his friend and Explosive Ordinance Disposal comrade, Matt Schwartz, which resulted in Castner’s brand new book All the Ways We Kill and Die. Meanwhile, our own advice columnist Keith Buckley will read the exploits of Ray Goldman from his 2015 book Scale.