Brock Clarke
Autor/a de An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
Sobre l'autor
Brock Clarke teaches creative writing at the University of Cincinnati.
Obres de Brock Clarke
Obres associades
You Must Be This Tall to Ride: Contemporary Writers Take You Inside The Story (2009) — Col·laborador — 20 exemplars
Astoria to Zion: Twenty-Six Stories of Risk and Abandon from Ecotone's First Decade (2014) — Col·laborador — 13 exemplars
The Algonquin Reader: Fall 2014 — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Oxford American: The Southern Magazine of Good Writing. No. 57 (2007): Best of the South (2007) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1968-11-19
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Llocs de residència
- Portland, Maine, USA
- Professions
- creative writing teacher
author - Organitzacions
- Bowdoin College
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Fiction For Men (1)
Fiction on Fire (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 10
- També de
- 8
- Membres
- 2,151
- Popularitat
- #11,958
- Valoració
- 3.1
- Ressenyes
- 178
- ISBN
- 54
- Llengües
- 5
- Preferit
- 2
- Pedres de toc
- 106
Thie is supposed to be funny in the way that "all of life is trying to kill me" sort of way, but I got only a few smirks out of this book, and no belly laughs. The guy is too pathetic. Laughing at him is, for me, like crushing a slug.
For those who like a pathetic anti-hero who has life continue to fall on him, this would be a fun read. It is well-written and makes internal sense. It simply isn't to my taste.
I did enjoy the series of people who really wanted to line up to burn down writer's homes. I would have liked more on why they felt so strongly about their destruction. Lots of funny stories in there....… (més)