Alex Kudera
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Teacher |
| Location | Dayton, Ohio, United States |
| Introduction | L.U.S.K. purports to be a humorous and humane look at life and literature. Auggie's Revenge and Fight for Your Long Day are available everywhere books are sold. Frade Killed Ellen, Turquoise Truck, and The Betrayal of Times of Peace and Prosperity can be found almost anywhere e-books are downloaded. |
| Interests | being a father, reading, writing, walking, teaching, kvetching, and procrastinating |
| Favorite Movies | The Daytrippers, Husbands and Wives, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Manhattan, Everyone Says I Love You, Head On, Spare Parts, Go, The Weather Underground, The Stone Reader, Slumming, Flight of the Red Balloon, House of Games, Glenn gary, Glenross, Look At Me, Paper Hearts, Matewan, The Lives of Others, Juno, Water, The Middleman, Hooper, Annie Hall, Short Cuts, The Son's Room, Little Miss Sunshine, Sunday, and many more |
| Favorite Books | Kundera's The Joke, Melville's Moby Dick, Benito Cereno, and Billy Budd, Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Dan Fante's Chump Change, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories and You've Got To Read This (short story anthologies), Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, V, and GR, Delillo's White Noise and the less "important" first three (Americana, Endzone, and Great Jones Street, Fred Exley's A Fan's Notes, Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road, Lorrie Moore's Like Life, Chang Rae Lee's Native Speaker, Kafka's short stories, Offutt's The Same River Twice, Auster's The Music of Chance, Knut Hamsun's Hunger, several among Shalamov, Biely, Olesha, Lermontov, Gogol, and Bruno Schulz; and for better or worse, my novels (Cartoon Bubbles... and Fight For Your Long Day), and many more |