Author: christopherbarzak

  • Strindberg and Helium

    Edited link:  Thanks for the fix, Maureen! If you’ve never experienced viewing the videos about Strindberg and Helium, you must watch them now. They make me laugh at myself whenever I become nihilistic or misanthropic. Click here and enjoy.

  • Home again

    I am back home from New York City, a bit bedraggled but thoroughly enjoyed myself. Saw Aimee Mann in concert, the anniversary reproduction of Harold Pinter’s “The Homecoming”, Southland Tales, shopped in open air markets, was a guest on the Hour of the Wolf, which you can listen to here, and ate lots and lots…

  • The Year in Brief

    Following the trend of posting the first line of the first day of each month from the past year’s blog: Jan: Spring semester at the university begins next week. Feb: 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…

  • Also

    I am sick. Have been for the past three days. I’m coughing so much, my lungs hurt. I have medicine, but this cough refuses to let go of me. If I could shake it, I think I’d actually feel normal. Half of my energy goes into just producing the coughs. I have managed to fix…

  • Autumn and Early Winter in my hood

    Fall didn’t last nearly long enough, if you ask me. I love these colors, and miss them already. This little guy was living in my attic. I chased him out and had words with him one day while he clung to the side of my house and barked at me. Apparently I had invaded *his*…

  • Life with a house

    I feel like I’m at the end of the strangest and somewhat stressful three or four months of my life. More stressful than those first few months of living in Japan even, getting used to a different culture. In the past four months, my first novel has come out, I’ve been teaching three classes at…

  • Great books you may have missed in 2007

    From the Village Voice: Yet could there be enough fell doings in a year that saw only one book from Stephen King, the Richard Bachman trunk novel Blaze? King’s son Joe Hill took up some of the slack with his bestselling horror novel Heart-Shaped Box and 20th Century Ghosts, a lovely, earnest collection of short…

  • Apologies

    Just a quick note to say I’m in the final days of the fall semester, very busy, stacks of essays to grade, student fiction portfolios to read, and have been busy with preparing for the Oakland Center for the Arts annual “How the Drag Queen Stole Christmas” production.  That’s finally over as of last night,…

  • Locus Review of One for Sorrow

    Gary Wolfe reviewed One for Sorrow in Locus this month.  It was a feature review, and I loved reading what he made of the book.  Okay, so I love reading and hearing what anyone thinks about the book, but this was yet another one of those detailed, thoughtful reviews that I enjoy so much, that…

  • Just a little change

    Since I’m rearranging stuff in my house, making it how I want to live in it for a while, I thought I’d make some changes on this website too.  I think I like the look of this one for now, but leave the option open to change however many times I like in the future. …