Christopher Barzak is the author of the Crawford Award winning novel, One for Sorrow, which was recently made into the Sundance Feature Film, Jamie Marks is Dead. His second novel, The Love We Share Without Knowing, was a finalist for the Nebula and James Tiptree Awards. His third novel, Wonders of the Invisible World, won the Stonewall Honor Award. He is also the author of Birds and Birthdays, a collection of surrealist fantasy stories, and Before and Afterlives, a collection of supernatural fantasies, which won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Single-Author Collection. His most recent novel is, The Gone Away Place. He grew up in rural Ohio, has lived in a southern California beach town, the capital of Michigan, and has taught English in suburban and rural communities outside of Tokyo, Japan, where he lived for two years. Currently he teaches fiction writing in the Northeast Ohio MFA program at Youngstown State University.
Recent Posts
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YA before YA was cool
Last week the famous J.D. Salinger passed away, which lead to an internet riot of people either mourning–some respectfully, some deeply–or people taking pot shots at Salinger and his most famous character, Holden Caulfield. The funny thing is, most of the people commenting on the book really don’t know anything about how the book was… Read more
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Attention Seattle
Attention Seattle readers/writers. In March, I’ll be in the city in conjunction with Northwest MediaArts to give a reading at University Bookstore on March 12th at 7PM, and a day-long writing workshop at Richard Hugo House from 10-5 on the 14th. It’s all part of Northwest MediaArts’ Fantastic Fiction Workshops & Salons series. If you’re… Read more
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Best Beer Store in the World
Hello, World. Did you know a Youngstown area retailer/pub is rated the best beer store in the world? I didn’t until today, when my friend Peter Oresick sent me this link to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s article about Vintage Estates, which is just over the border of Youngstown in Boardman, one of the suburbs. I certainly… Read more
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Another recommendation
Over the winter break I had a chance to read more books of my own choosing than I’ve been able to do in a while. One of them was Ali Shaw’s debut novel, The Girl With Glass Feet. This novel is a modern fairy tale, set in a faraway land, St. Hauda’s, an icy island… Read more
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