Author: christopherbarzak

  • Way Cool Moments

    The San Francisco Chronicle recently published their holiday gift-book recommendations, and on the sf list you will find Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff, along with Kage Baker’s The Sons of Heaven, Emma Bull’s Territory, Joe Hill’s 20th Century Ghosts, China Mieville’s Un Lun Dun, Naomi Novik’s Empire of Ivory, Patrick Rothfuss’ The Name of the…

  • I love crazy things

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA1NoOOoaNw] A wonderfully ridiculously subtitled old Indian video (I hope it’s old). The subtitles aren’t a translation, but what the listener thinks the lyrics sound like to an English speaker’s ear. I laughed a lot. Hope you do too. (Thanks to Jason Lundberg for the link).

  • SF Site Review

    Paul Kincaid on One for Sorrow: Whether you read the ghost story as a metaphor for Adam’s psychological travails, or the upheavals in Adam’s family as a grim mirror for the haunting, this is a superbly structured, beautifully written coming of age story. It is, in its way, as powerful and affecting a debut as…

  • The Literary Detective

    Viriginie over at The Literary Detective wrote about One for Sorrow on her French blog last month, and in between then and now she interviewed me for a new series of author interviews that she would like to start. Here are the results of our interview across the ocean. She asked really great questions, and…

  • Pics from the house

    Here are a few pics of rooms that have been made livable and lovable in the new house. And the house also had its first house guests. The house loved them. More guests, please!

  • I can has One for Sorrow

    I cracked up last week when I got this in an email last week. Thanks, Cody (and Angela)!

  • A blurb from Will

    O excellent! I love Barzak better than figs. Which work of Shakespeare was the original quote from?

  • Winter Blog Blast

    Today Ms. Bond over at Shaken and Stirred posted an interview with me for the Winter Blog Blast, and tomorrow Colleen Mondor will be doing the same at her blog Chasing Ray. I’ve been doing so many interviews lately, I’m not sure if I’m repeating myself or dreaming of answering questions, or what.  Today I…

  • Home again

    I’m back home from World Fantasy Convention. Four things I have decided: 1. Flying by airplane is my great annoyance. I wish I could teleport to wherever it is I want to go. 2. I will always, always, read the chapter “Dead is Dead is Dead” whenever I have a completely adult audience at future…

  • On Target

    Happy Halloween to all you ghosts, goblins and witches. I’m getting ready to leave for the World Fantasy Convention in Saratoga Springs, NY this weekend. Hope everyone has a good one. Mine has already started out really well. I’m pleased to announce that Target has selected One for Sorrow to be one of their Breakout…