J Chris Rock
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39 years old
SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI
United States



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    J Chris Rock's Interests
GeneralWriting, and other things.
MoviesThe one where Harvey, the giant Pookah, tells Jimmy Stewart about a swamptown in Florida where people amputate limbs in attempts at insurance fraud only to be attacked by aliens that emerge every eclipse, and then ol' Chucky Bronson shows up and tells the guys "You brought two horses too many" and bang bang bang and the music swells under a shot of the snowblown Minnesota highway as a short, kinda funny-looking guy buries a bag full of money. I love that one.
BooksForget entire books for a second (though you can keep E.L. Doctorow's City of God top-of-mind if you like, and, why not, Cormac Mccarthy's The Road), and let's talk short fiction. Annie Proulx's The Mud Below, Mister Squishy by David Foster Wallace, a wee bit o' the new classic with Civilwarland in Bad Decline by George Saunders, A Distant Episode—Paul Bowles, Pilgrims—Julie Orringer, The New Automaton Theater—Steven Millhauser, Runaway—Alice Munro, The Library of Babel—Jorge Borges, The Ceiling—Kevin Brockmeier, The Snows of Kilimanjaro—ol' Ernie Hemmingway, Double Birthday—Willa Cather, The Half-Skinned Steer—Annie P again, The Bees—Dan Chaon and then the other ones I can't quite come up with right now.

     J Chris Rock's Details
Status:Married
Hometown:Springfield, MO
Zodiac Sign:Libra
Children:Proud parent
Occupation:Copywriter

   J Chris Rock's Networking
Publishing - Writer - Other
Short Fiction

   J Chris Rock's Companies
The Marlin Company
Springfield, MO US
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   J Chris Rock's Blurbs
About me:

Glad You Asked

It's only recently that I've begun to more fully embrace the stereotype of the copywriter with a manuscript in his top drawer. Instead of the Great American Novel, mine is a pile of short stories constantly in search of a printed home. I've written fiction as long ago as the sixth grade. (It was a play loosely based on the big Dallas cliffhanger, Who Shot JR? Turns out none of the other 6th graders wanted to skip recess to rehearse. Go figure.) It wasn't until about three or four years ago that I started to focus on it again. I joined the Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver for roughly a year. My wife and I then moved to Shanghai, where she taught English and I concentrated on writing full-time. When we returned to the States, I started sending things out in earnest.

So far I've been fortunate enough to find homes for a handful of stories in Opium, Hobart, Barrelhouse, Cimarron Review,, Asimov‘s Science Fiction and Wild Blue Yonder (the in-flight magazine for Frontier Airlines), as well as a few pieces online in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Yankee Pot Roast, Opium and Barrelhouse again, and The Science Creative Quarterly. I've had the pleasure of co-authoring a few of those online pieces with John Leary, a painfully funny man with a good haircut who still lives and writes in Shanghai.

At this point, my life revolves more around my toddler, wife and work than the written word, but the stories are still in the drawer, still occasionally pushing to get out.

Who I'd like to meet:
My son in thirty years.

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Carolyn

Carolyn Elder



Oct 17 2008 9:44 PM

Holla Back atcha boy! How the hell are you? Seen the new xD (purty sweet)?

What's rockin' in Chris's worl'?
Susan

Susan



Oct 8 2008 4:39 PM

Hey.
Whatcha been up to?
dan

dan



Jun 21 2008 2:59 AM

im sending you a black turtleneck and a glue-on soul patch.
congrats!
Jody Reale

Jody Reale



Apr 1 2008 7:32 PM

I see someone read his Beacon. Thanks! I'm so proud.
Chloe

Chloe



Sep 8 2007 9:17 PM

Hi Chris! I got your tag and posted a new blog. Happy Caturday!
Susan

Susan



Sep 7 2007 11:07 AM

Stole your song. xo
LitPark

Susan Henderson



Aug 16 2007 2:03 PM

LitPark likes your taste in books!
Dave Clapper

Dave Clapper



Jul 10 2007 7:18 PM

Thanks, Chris!
The Species Crown

The Species Crown



Jul 6 2007 10:09 PM

Loved your story in Hobart 6.

Check me out at Press 53. They are good folks.

Much peace.
Jody Reale

Jody Reale



May 22 2007 11:16 PM

Hmm. Now that you've changed your profile photo, my last comment either doesn't make sense or is extremely clever. Go figure.
Jody
Jody Reale

Jody Reale



Apr 10 2007 12:16 AM

I like to think of your avatar as a kind of Justice Center where all the puritanical superheroes meet and rest up. Where've you been by the way? Fridays aren't the same without fluid pudding.
Jody
dan

dan



Nov 22 2006 5:18 PM

we would be honored if you played jazz flute for us
Lucy

Lucy Howell



Oct 16 2006 3:16 PM

Nice Pilgram's Pride photo...i've actually driven right past that. It's every bit of creepy it appears to be.
Roy Kesey

Roy Kesey



Oct 5 2006 1:43 PM

Sweeeeeeeet.
Susanna

Susanna



Feb 10 2006 7:21 PM

I get it, I get it: It's a statue of Jimmy Carter dressed as the Quaker Oatmeal man. Right?
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