Sam Snoek-Brown
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| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Adjunct faculty |
| Location | Portland, OR, United States |
| Introduction | I write fiction and teach university-level English writing. At the moment I'm shopping a collection of stories and a polishing a novel, with plans to work on a nonfiction book on university-level teaching. As my projects change so will this box, so stay tuned for updates. For more information on my profile photo, read this. |
| Interests | Fiction, narrative studies, graphic narrative, teaching, learning, Buddhism, popular culture studies |
| Favorite Movies | American Beauty, the entire Bourne series, Citizen Kane, The Incredibles, Love Actually, Onibaba, Pride & Prejudice (the `05 version though I love the `95 miniseries as well), Transformers (both the `86 animated and the `07 live-action) |
| Favorite Music | Tori Amos, Matt Anderson, Beck, Lenny Kravitz (the older the better), Metallica (the older the better), Ministry (especially Houses of the Mole'), the Pride & Prejudice soundtrack, Rachmanonov, Radiohead (particularly OK Computer), The Ramones, Sublime, Tchaikovsky, Tool. Also, bands I know and support: Bull Dyke Rodeo, Chica Y Los Gatos, Dum Dum & the Smarties, Stephen Shepherd, and Debbi Walton. |
| Favorite Books | Anything by Jane Austen, Kevin Brockmeier, Jorge Luis Borges, Raymond Carver, Joseph Conrad, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Beth Ann Fennelly, Tom Franklin, Cormac McCarthy, and Tsongkhapa. LOVE the Harry Potter novels. Checkhov is a god. Most Hemingway is genius (For Whom the Bell Tolls=a perfect novel); Faulkner got lucky sometimes. I don't read enough Alice Munro. I don't care what other people say, I liked Annie Proulx's The Shipping News, and her short fiction is getting a LOT better these days. Also: Jonis Agee's A .38 Special and a Broken Heart, Bill Roorbach's Temple Stream, Irvine Welsh's Maribou Stork Nightmares, Jakie Kay's Trumpet, Dashiell Hammet's The Maltese Falcon, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Rick Bass's The Watch. LM Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables is adorable, and some day I need to read the rest of that series. Stephen Batchelor's Verses from the Center: A Buddhist Vision of the Sublime is fascinating, and I hope to read more of his work. I also love Ronald McNair Scott's Robert the Bruce: King of Scots--it rewards re-reading. I'm rediscovering my old love of graphic fiction, too: The Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns, the Sandman sequence.... Standards, I know, but they're great. And, of course, the list goes on.... |
Why does the taste of pennies remind you of losing a tooth?
I had never put these two ideas together, but when I write fiction, I often describe the taste of blood as "coppery," and now that I think about it, this is why: Blood does taste like pennies, and the last time I tasted a penny, I was still losing teeth (and, consequently, bleeding in my mouth). Go figure!