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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Monkey Majik
I ran across this song of the day at NPR’s website today. It’s a song by a band in Sendai, Japan called “Monkey Majik”, two white brothers from Canada who went to Japan to teach English and stayed, and two Japanese members. They’re apparently getting pretty popular in Japan. It’s a blend of pop and hip Read more
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Nippon Worldcon
Does anyone have plans to go to Japan’s Worldcon this summer? Read more
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Potential blurbs?? (Updated)
I happened to stumble into myspace’s professor grading system and was laughing at some of the report cards student have given some of my old professor’s until I realized I could possibly be on this site too. Suddenly panicked, I searched for my name, and sure enough it was listed. I have no worries, though. Read more
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The Astronaut’s Rival
Oh. my. god. I cannot believe how ridiculously absurd this story is. I mean, I know it’s serious and all, someone apparently driving 1000 miles in diapers so she wouldn’t have to stop and go to the bathroom in order to get to her victim’s house on time, but the steel mallet? the buck knife? the BB Read more
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Stupid dies as stupid does
No matter what rights there may be to do something like this, I can’t help but intuitively feel it’s criminal, what the AEI (American Enterprise Institute) has done: offered money to scientists to undermine the U.N.’s assessment that global climate change is in a radical, dangerous state, mostly due to the human activity called industry, Read more
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23 Small Disasters
News came yesterday that a hypertextual flash fiction project called “23 Small Disasters” created by myself, Elad Haber, Greg van Eekhout, Meghan McCarron, Tim Pratt, Benjamin Rosenbaum (who conceived the idea), and Kiini Ibura Salaam was sold to Ideomancer, where it will serve as an entire month’s issue. Way cool. I’m excited to see what people will make of it. Read more
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