Christopher Barzak
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Books, Movies, Music, reading, writing, running, karaoke, people's weird habits, social order, social disorder, gym culture, bookstore culture, culture culture, Japanese, all things Japanese related, U.S. foreign relations botch jobs, education, alternate realities, emotional realities, ghost stories, metaphors and similes, also smiles.Music
Rufus Wainwright, Asian Kung Fu Generation, The Brilliant Green, Utada Hikaru, Tori Amos, REM, Aimee Mann, Carissa's Weird, Radiohead, Neko Case, The Magnetic Fields, The Pixies, Janet Jackson, The Cranberries, Tracy Chapman, Sufjan Stevens, Placebo, Over the Rhine, The Crissie McCree Band, Dido, Sarah McLachlan, Death Cab for Cutie, The Bravery, Joni Mitchell, The Flaming Lips, BJ O'MalleyMovies
Muriel's Wedding, Kamikaze Girls, Donnie Darko, Amelie, Bridget Jones' Diary (shut up), The Velvet Goldmine, The Piano, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, After Life, Nobody Knows, The Matrix, V for Vendetta, Strangers With Candy, Lost in Translation, Shaun of the Dead, Why We Fight, Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Waiting for Guffman, Little Children, Strangers on a Train, Light and the Sufferer, The Corpse BrideTelevision
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Kelly Link: Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners; Jonathan Lethem: Girl in Landscape, Amnesia Moon, The Wall of the Eye, the Wall of the Sky; Aimee Bender: The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, An Invisible Sign of My Own, Willful Creatures; Judy Budnitz: If I Told You Once; Kevin Brockmeier: The Truth About Celia, Things That Fall From the Sky; Toni Morrison: Beloved, Jazz, Sula; Marguerite Duras: The Lover; Isak Dinesen: Winter Tales, Seven Gothic Tales, Anecdotes of Destiny; Alan Deniro: Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead; Jeffrey Ford: The Girl in the Glass; Carol Emshwiller: The Start of the End of it All; Bruno Schulz: The Street of Crocodiles, Sanitorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass; Kafka: The Sons; Karen Joy Fowler: The Jane Austen Book Club, Sarah Canary, Artificial Things, Black Glass; Ursula LeGuin: Four Ways to Forgiveness, The Left Hand of Darkness; John Crowley: Little Big, Engine Summer; Hannah Arendt: The Human Condition, Between Past and Future, and The Life of the Mind; Louise Erdrich: Tracks; Ben Rice: Pobby and Dingan; Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's CradleHeroes
People who create, people who try to leave the world a better place than how they found it, people who give a damn.
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About me:
I'm a novelist and short story writer living in Youngstown, Ohio. I teach fiction writing at Youngstown State University. My novels are published by Bantam Books. Go to my real website here. Find my novel One for Sorrow here. My second novel, The Love We Share Without Knowing, has just been released.Who I'd like to meet:
The Buddha, Jesus Christ, Marguerite Duras, Isak Dinesen, Marilyn Monroe, J.D. Salinger, Lao Tzu, Haruki Murakami, Matthew Barney, Hannah Arendt, Einstein, George Washington, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Franz Kafka, Jeanette Winterson, Kurt Vonnegut. Geniuses, leaders, lords and ladies, people who create.Details
- Status: In a Relationship
- Here for: Networking, Friends
- Hometown: Kinsman, Ohio
- Height: 5' 9"
- Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
- Zodiac Sign: Cancer
- Education: Grad / professional school
- Occupation: Writer/Teacher
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Youngstown State University
- Youngstown, OH
- Graduated: 2003
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: Master's Degree
- Major: English/Creative Writing
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Youngstown State University
- Youngstown, OH
- Graduated: 1998
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: Bachelor's Degree
- Major: English
- Minor: Psychology
1995 to 1998
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- Publishing
- Writer
- Novelist
My stories appear in venues like Nerve, LCRW, and The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. Bantam Books released my first novel, One for Sorrow, this fall. My second, The Love We Share Without Knowing, comes out next year.
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10 of 298MoreI already sent this to you on Facebook! ... if you will be in/around Youngstown on New Years Eve come and see/hear me perform an intimate acoustic show at Lemon Grove downtown @122 Federal Plaza West. There will be a few opening performers and I will be on around 10 pm/ Hope to see you there!
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Chris - there is something creepy about your profile picture. Like something is going to jump out at you from the cornfields. Be careful.
Chris Barzak . . . . u have a z in your name..... just sayin.......
hi mr barzak!!!! thanks for the add.......sorry it took a while....
hi chris, thanx for the add
yo!!! r u still at ysu anymore??? i'm here everyday we should have lunch...your treat =)
thanks for the add!! xoxoxoxo
Just let me know what will work. I'm pretty flexible.
This coming week is going to be a bear for me, but Saturdays are always pretty flexible (except for the next couple) if that would work for you. If not, I can escape the office for an hour of lunch any weekday of the first week of May. Or we could do coffee after work.