Sidney Thompson
"if you like hannah or carver or o'connor, stuff like that"

Male
42 years old
Point Clear, Alabama
United States



Last Login: 6/26/2008
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    Sidney Thompson's Interests
MusicThe White Stripes, The Strokes, Al Green, Albert King, Ben Kweller, Ben Folds, Brendan Benson, The Raconteurs, Aimee Mann, Freedy Johnston, Bishop Allen, Spoon, Howlin' Wolf, The Beatles, Elvis Costello, Rufus Thomas, Ryan Adams, Hole, pre-2003 Liz Phair, Big Star, Bo Diddley, Son House, The Von Bondies, Coldplay, Booker T and the MGs, Hank Williams I and III, Isaac Hayes, Led Zepellin, Ann Peebles, The Clash, Johnny Cash, The Stones, The Cars, The Doors, Lou Reed, Chris Isaac, Dusty Springfield, Otis Redding, Etta James, Elmore James, James Brown, The Pretenders, Paul Westerberg, Loretta Lynn, Aretha Franklin, O.V. Wright, Miles Davis, John Lee Hooker, Bar-Kays, Tom Petty, Mississippi John Hurt, Bob Dylan, Sex Pistols, R.E.M., Elvis (Sun and American Studio recordings), and Beethoven, Mozart, and Bach.
MoviesJEAN DE FLORETTE/MANON OF THE SPRING, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, THE 400 BLOWS, DOCTOR STRANGELOVE, MIDNIGHT COWBOY, BLUE VELVET, SWINGERS, RAISING ARIZONA, THE DAYTRIPPERS, GOODFELLAS, THE GRADUATE, CINEMA PARADISO, HAROLD AND MAUDE, RUN LOLA RUN, THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS, TAXI DRIVER, IL POSTINO, THE SQUID AND THE WHALE, PULP FICTION, and RED (a few all-time favorites).
TelevisionFLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS, ENTOURAGE, EXTRAS, REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, DA ALI G, and SEINFELD.
BooksA few favorites and influences: Flannery O'Connor, Faulkner, Hemingway, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Tolstoy, Carver, Cheever, Hannah, Toole, Welty, Achebe, Camus, Sartre, Orwell, Nietzsche, Nordan, Capote, Andre Dubus, Gilchrist, Morrison, Conrad, Beckett, Kundera, Garcia Marquez, Ellison, Tennessee Williams, Tom Franklin, Plato, Marvin Bell, Mark Strand, Frost, Sophocles...and Jennifer Paddock.

     Sidney Thompson's Details
Status:Married
Here for:Networking, Friends
Hometown:Memphis
Body type:0' 0"
Zodiac Sign:Cancer
Occupation:WRITER

   Sidney Thompson's Schools
University Arkansas
Fayetteville,Arkansas
Graduated: 1994
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: M.F.A. in Creative Writing
 

1991 to 1994
University Of Mississippi Main Campus
University,Mississippi
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: English/Creative Writing
 

1990 to 1991
University Of Memphis
Memphis,Tennessee
Graduated: 1989
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: English/Creative Writing
 

1984 to 1989

   Sidney Thompson's Networking
Publishing - Writer - Novelist
Short Stories



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   Sidney Thompson's Blurbs
About me:
SIDESHOW is my first book, a collection of short stories.

For more info. if you like, check out The Litblog Co-op for all my SIDESHOW stuff, including interviews, posts and comments, and a podcast on why SIDESHOW was an Autumn 2006 Read This! Finalist.

Or for the soundtrack to SIDESHOW, go to Largeheartedboy.com.


Praise for SIDESHOW:


Thompson's prose rings simple and direct, his narrative quick and sure. His real gift, though, is an eye for the subtle emotional connections we universally share. And what this Alabama-based writer finds just below the surface of day-to-day existence is a notable discovery--a South to which we can all relate...seen more through the prism of R.E.M. than William Faulkner.
--Paste Magazine

A powerful debut . . . shocking . . . strange . . . tender . . . pitch-perfect.
--Memphis Magazine

Freakishly clever...This book is anything but routine. It is carefully crafted, entertaining, and, at times, unsettling...I must confess that more than once, I felt myself whispering to myself, “Good Lord. Did he just write what I thought he wrote?”
--Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

A literary cross between Paul Bowles and David Lynch...quirkily funny, with oddball characters pursuing bizarre obsessions across the modern Southern landscape...Thompson's abilities shine...a writer very much on task.
--Mobile Press-Register

Sidney Thompson’s collection of 10 stories vividly lives up to its title...mesmerizing...transcendent...a spectacle arising from finely observed and perfectly crafted insights....I cannot imagine how this guy fits so much creative chutzpah inside his head.
--Jackson Free Press

A daring and compulsively entertaining debut...Sidney Thompson tells one hell of a story, full of unlikely characters colliding in precarious positions, sometimes disturbingly, and often hilariously reaching a higher truth.
--Arkansas Review

Sidney Thompson, like Harry Crews, seems alive to the oddness in the world around us, and writes of it frighteningly well.
--Alabama Public Radio

Sidney Thompson's wonderfully desperate and obsessed characters swarm from the page like locusts out of earth. Sideshow offers us both funny and frightening glimpses of the human psyche, of moral and amoral behavior. Unlike a county fairs sideshow wherein viewers get a salacious peek for five minutes then return to the relative safety of an outside world, Thompsons characters linger closer to the reader than a noon shadow. This collection deserves celebratory gunshots into the air, over and over.
--George Singleton, author of The Half-Mammals of Dixie and Why Dogs Chase Cars

In the defuncting and corrupt sideshow that's become the contemporary American South, Sidney Thompson stands yawping there on the corner like a mad preacher, reminding us who the real freaks are. These ten stories--bold, bawdy, sometimes shocking and always hilarious--are so good they ought to be proclaimed though a megaphone. The question might pop into your head as you read: Can he do this? The answer, ladies and gentlemen, is Hell yeah.
--Tom Franklin, author of Poachers and Hell at the Breech

Thompson's wonderful stories prove that often the best way through to the meaningful anarchies of this world is classical restraint. It's beautiful to see the short story hanging tough as a bright form beneath Thompson's hands. And we get to see the famous story bounced from the Atlantic, when it was learned the author was white, victorious now in its resurrection.
--Barry Hannah, author of Airships and Yonder Stands Your Orphan

An eye for color, an ear for language, a sense of motion and a heart for the human condition--that's the fine writing of Sidney Thompson.
--Robert McCammon, author of Boy's Life and Speaks the Nightbird


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Sidney Thompson has 315 friends.
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Allyson





May 14 2008 8:36 AM

Hey Sidney Thompson, I just bought you as my PET! Click here to find out how much I think you're $$WORTH$$!


Hola. How is the car business? ~a.w.



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Daisy





Jan 20 2008 7:51 PM

Thanks for the add from Daisy Dooley

So pleased to be a friend Sidney!
Michelle Pillow, Romance Author





Jan 10 2008 8:16 AM

Just dropping by to say hi! Have a great 2008!



Michelle M Pillow
www.michellepillow.com
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Henry Bateman





Dec 20 2007 4:40 PM


Seasons greetings to you and yours from me and mine.
Henry
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Paperback Writer





Nov 21 2007 8:46 PM

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Brete (techno for brainiacs™)





Nov 21 2007 7:58 PM

!!!!! Sidney Thompson !!!!!!!

Ya know, you and your page are what MySpace is all about.

You ROCK!

"The Season" is nearly upon us. When you're in the mood to blast some techno Sugar Plum Fairy, or chill out to Arabian Dance, you know where to find it!

Drop by and SHOUT OUT!

Brète

PS: What are you getting me for Christmas? ;)

CD at CD Baby MP3s at SoundClick

Buy the CD
Susan





Aug 31 2007 10:15 AM

What's happened to Sidney? It's like he's vanished.
Mystery of the Ages( Awesome Inc.)





Aug 30 2007 1:02 PM

Thank you for the add.
Have a great day!!!
Paperback Writer





Aug 21 2007 8:23 AM



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Henry Bateman





Aug 13 2007 3:25 PM


Thanks for the Add Ü
Henry
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Paperback Writer





Jul 24 2007 11:16 AM

I'm working on a memoir. But it's slow-going with a toddler. Have a great day.
Dan Wallace





Jul 21 2007 4:20 PM

Cheetah





Jul 21 2007 7:18 AM

Happy Birthday!
dione





Jul 21 2007 7:07 AM

happy birthday!!!!!!! i hope you have a great one!

d
benton scrivener





Jul 21 2007 6:43 AM

Hey Sidney! Happy birthday from up here in dear ole Kentucky.
Carla Ramer





Jul 21 2007 5:18 AM

Happy birthday, Shark.
Paperback Writer





Jul 20 2007 9:30 PM

Enjoy your birthday weekend!
Lizard





Jul 20 2007 5:36 PM

Happy Birthday!
T. Smith / Atlanta, Georgia





Jul 20 2007 6:45 AM

Happy Birthday from T. Smith


Much Love and Many More.

I hope that all is well with you. Make life and enjoy life.

God Bless
Paperback Writer





Jul 4 2007 5:07 PM


MySpace Glitter Graphics
Lizard





Jun 3 2007 3:54 PM

life is good. you'll have to let me know when you & jennifer hit my neck of the woods....we can make some plans...knock over a few mailboxes, get arrested, that sort of thing!...it'll be fun!
Ric Ocasek The Official MySpace Page





May 28 2007 10:13 AM

Thanks for the add !
Brad





May 20 2007 11:25 AM


Hey, I'll be reading at P&P on the 24th. I hope to see y'all there.
Paperback Writer





May 4 2007 8:10 PM

Enjoy your weekend
What's Your Story?





Apr 19 2007 5:15 PM

Hi Sidney Thompson Thanks for being a friend of Your-Story.org.your-story.org - what's your story?
Jennifer





Mar 7 2007 5:47 AM

myspace layouts, myspace codes, glitter graphics

"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will."

- Jawaharal Nehru

Happy Wednesday! Thanks for being a friend...

xoxo

Jen
www.WritersBreak.com
Arkansas Media Group. Checkout our sites!





Feb 21 2007 11:16 AM

Hey there Sidney Thompson!

This is a personal invite to add your profile to ARspot

It's a great way to connect with local people, musicians, artists, businesses, you name it!

We'll be looking for your profile :)

-Your friends at ARspot
Becca





Jan 15 2007 3:25 PM

well hello stranger! hows it been?
StrvnWritr





Dec 31 2006 8:34 AM

Myspace New Year Glitter Graphics
Becca





Nov 28 2006 9:57 AM

thank you and yeah wish i could get the day off but do you think that would happen....oh well maybe next year
This That & The Other Magazine





Nov 9 2006 4:58 AM

hello mr thompson. i got to meet your wife at a recent book signing - t.a. barron? she's very nice. continued success to both of you on your books and writing. :O)
$Johnny$





Oct 29 2006 9:58 PM

Hey Mr. Sidney..hows life treating ya? Its been a long time buddy whats going on?
Paperback Writer





Oct 4 2006 3:14 PM

Hey, Shadey. Just saying hi.
REV. DR. JAZZ





Aug 29 2006 6:52 PM

That is exactly what I thought! Thank you for accepting my add request.

Rob.
Dan





Aug 24 2006 5:03 AM

Congrats on having Sideshow named a nominee by the Litblog Co-op for the Autumn Read This! selection (www.lbc.typepad.com). Good luck!
Becca





Aug 16 2006 7:57 PM

awww we already miss you...hope all goes well on your tour!
Nicole





Aug 3 2006 3:48 PM

Just stopping by to wish you and yours a great weekend!

Enjoy!
ellen was here





Jul 30 2006 9:52 AM

Sidney -
So glad you found me, I'm honored to be your friend. I have to agree with you, "Fisherman's Blues" is mine too ... in fact, I just might need to update my collection (I only have that on an album. Remember those days?) I think I need to listen now .. you got me going! Stay in touch. ~ellen
Wanda





Jul 26 2006 6:11 PM

Hey Sidney:

Tell me a little about the character called Wanda in your novel?

Best,
Wanda in Wandaworld
$Johnny$





Jul 26 2006 5:36 AM

Hey sidney thanks I really appreciate it! That was my second car I hope to keep up with you super selling guys!
scott





Jul 22 2006 7:30 AM

hey sidney. happy b-day. hope all's well. yrs, s
Harry Shannon





Jul 21 2006 7:53 PM

Hey and howdy