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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A view from inside
The university closed a bit ago, and I’ve come home early, thankfully, to a warm apartment. Things are pretty cold out, and lots of snow is coming down. Predictions that there’ll be more and more overnight. Perhaps I’ll have a day off school tomorrow. The university rarely closes, which is too bad because, just like Read more
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The Night Camera
I come from a hunting family, but I somehow did not inherit the gene or personality trait required to have the desire to kill. I didn’t suffer too much for this deficiency in my family because I did and still do love animals and nature, and love being in the woods. In any case, my Read more
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Comfort food
I’ve been not feeling so good the past couple of days, which finally emerged as the sore throat that conquered the world. It hurt to even swallow last night, so I made myself comfort food my adopted mom in Japan had sent me, and took the day off from school, and slept in, and am Read more
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In order of importance
If as many people are actually upset and disturbed by the completely unsurprising death of Anna Nicole Smith as the media would have us believe, I can only refer back to my previous entry on despair and add this to my list of despair-worthy items: 1. War in the Middle East 2. Environmental catastrophe 3. People Read more
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Inconvenient things
If Al Gore would decide to run for president again, I think my vote would be decided easily. According to this Times article, he says has no intention to run, despite a group of his former supporters campaigning to bring him out. Gore lost his first campaign for president for lots of reasons (even before Read more
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Despair is natural, isn’t it?
Some years ago I had a course on the early twentieth century British novel. For the class I was introduced for the first time to Virginia Woolf’s work. We read To the Lighthouse, which I loved so much I began taking her other books out of the library and reading them despite having to go Read more
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