Charlie O.
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Teacher |
| Introduction | I've been pretending to be a writer since I was ten, I've been watching too many movies since I was 17, I've been living with the same woman and working the same job since I was 24. I'm the author of three published novels and five short stories. I am currently working on two projects, a biographical novel about Abe Osheroff, an Abraham Lincoln Brigade Vet, and a series of interrelated science fiction stories. I teach 7th grade English as a writing/reading workshop. My tastes in movies, television and literature are wildly eclectic. I await with equal anticipation new films by James Cameron and André Téchiné. I'm equally at home reading a little known German novel translated by Michael Hoffman as I am reading a well-crafted, smoothly written thriller. Sometimes I yearn for rich language or an understanding of life; other times I yearn for strong narrative. |
| Interests | Writing, reading, film, anthropology |
| Favorite Movies | The Rules of the Game; Grand Illusion; Late August, Early September; Aliens; Buffy the Vampire Slayer (tv); The Wire (tv). |
| Favorite Music | Harry Chapin, early John McCutcheon, Janis Ian, Luis Eduardo Aute, Carlos Cano, Estopa, Victor Manauel, Joaquin Sabina |
| Favorite Books | A Perfect Spy, Micklesson's Ghosts, The Savage Detectives, Alice Munro's short stories, Dubin's Lives, Greg Egan's short stories, The Great World, Deborah Eisenberg's short stories, Anton Chekhov's short stories, War and Peace, and Juan Marsé's novels set in postwar Barcelona |