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Christopher Barzak

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  • Christopher Barzak

  • 34 / Male
  • Youngstown, OHIO, US
  • Last Login: 11/19/2009

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Interests

  • General

    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'Malley

  • Movies

    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 Bride

  • Television

    I like the Strangers With Candy Series, the first season of Queer as Folk, and some episodes of Sex in the City. Also, Heroes. But all in all, I'm not the target audience for television.

  • Books

    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 Cradle

  • Heroes

    People who create, people who try to leave the world a better place than how they found it, people who give a damn.

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

Schools

Networking

  • 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.

Blurbs

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.

Comments

Displaying 25 of 359 comments
  • J. LincolnJ. Lincoln Fenn

    Nov 9 2009 6:03 AM

    Chris - there is something creepy about your profile picture.  Like something is going to jump out at you from the cornfields.  Be careful.
  • adamthehousecatAdam Young

    Oct 28 2009 5:27 AM

    Chris Barzak . . . . u have a z in your name..... just sayin.......
  • joe

    Sep 16 2009 2:34 PM

    hi mr barzak!!!! thanks for the add.......sorry it took a while....
  • The Nunz

    Jun 9 2009 10:01 AM

    hi chris, thanx for the add
  • adamthehousecatAdam Young

    May 19 2009 2:34 PM

    yo!!! r u still at ysu anymore???  i'm here everyday   we should have lunch...your treat =)
  • SydneySydney Paige

    May 5 2009 6:24 PM

    thanks for the add!! xoxoxoxo
  • Thelissa©

    Apr 29 2009 4:20 PM

    Just let me know what will work. I'm pretty flexible.
  • Thelissa©

    Apr 25 2009 2:59 AM

    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.
  • Thelissa©

    Apr 23 2009 12:23 PM

    I'm like a vapor. I appear for work and then disappear just as mysteriously. I really don't go out much anymore. I'm an old broad now. How have you been? What's new? Every time I see your latest book in the store, I think of you. Maybe we can grab lunch or something one day.
  • LoopyTanuki

    Apr 21 2009 11:13 PM

    oh ok....that's acceptable then.

  • : THE FUTUREPROOF CUDDL…

    Apr 21 2009 10:09 AM

  • LoopyTanuki

    Apr 21 2009 3:01 PM

    omg!! you used the wrong form of your!!!!!!!!!!!!!! gotcha!
  • Michael Starkey unplugg…

    Apr 18 2009 9:36 PM

    Thanks for adding us!! Rock on!!
  • Julie

    Mar 17 2009 3:46 AM

    So I was watching Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern tonight and he was in Japan eating fugu. Have you ever tried that, Chris? Prepared wrong and YOU DIE! Scary stuff.
  • JanetJanet Fitch

    Mar 2 2009 5:12 AM

    Hi Christopher--
    Thanks for befriending me and Paint It Black! Hope you like it. Wish you good reading and many delights.

    All best,
    Janet F.



  • The SmackDaddys

    Feb 25 2009 1:36 AM

    Thanks for the add Christopher!!
  • adamthehousecatAdam Young

    Feb 23 2009 11:34 PM

    This guy owns modern fiction!!! I'm so proud he's my teacher.
    HAHA -adam
  • The Realtime Digimob

    Feb 23 2009 11:42 PM

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  • JanetJanet Ursel

    Feb 21 2009 8:11 PM

    Thanks for the add, Christopher. I like your "Who I'd Like to Meet" list. Eclectic is always interesting.
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    more books please.....

  • TedTed Fauster

    Jan 23 2009 5:20 PM

    Thanks for the add!
  • Julie

    Jan 15 2009 5:29 AM

    Hey, when are your office hours? I'm going to come by and pick up my portfolio. :)

    Take care!
  • Open BookSusan Thompson

    Jan 11 2009 7:28 PM

    I was hoping that's what it was! Excellent, now I can look forward to that one too. Happy writing then.
  • Open BookSusan Thompson

    Jan 11 2009 4:03 AM

    Well if you're working on an MFA I think you can be forgiven for not coming to Worldcon! Not sure yet if I can make it myself anyway.
    I'm curious now though - what's your thesis?
  • Open BookSusan Thompson

    Jan 9 2009 12:19 AM

    I'm sure I will, but I'll let you know! Are you going to Worldcon in Montreal this summer?