David Guiotto
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| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Construction |
| Occupation | writing |
| Location | San Francisco, CA |
| Introduction | David Guiotto is the author of Sawtooth Country and Holocene Trail Guide to the Boise Front. His writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Watchword Press, The Rumpus.net, Terra Nova, and The Boise Weekly. He is working on his third novel The Distances. And yes, he does saw wood for a living. |
| Interests | Literature (mainly: Russian to American Realism), telemark skiing, mountains, travel, travel in mountains, mountaineering, geography, history, football (American and the roundball kind), cycling, sports of all sorts, art, politics, architecture, trees, sending postcards, tinkering in my shop, darts, beer while playing darts, stouts and pilsners, single malt scotch, horses, open country, johny cash, horace silver, teri gross, rock types, the Alps, sitting on the back porch in afternoon sun, books, did I say literature?, cloud types, weather patterns, this could go on and on . . . |
| Favorite Movies | A Streetcar Named Desire |
| Favorite Books | The Sun Also Rises, all of Dos Pasos' stuff, Anna Karenina, Grapes of Wrath, Out Stealing Horses, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Sister Carrie, Chekhov's stories, most of Orwell's work, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, W.C. Williams' poems, Gary Snyder's poems, Martha Gellhorn's The Trouble I've Seen, Faulkner's Sanctuary, most of James M. Cain (but The Postman Always Rings Twice is doubly perfect), The Maltese Falcon, Death in Venice, Banks' Continental Drift, Death of a Salesman, A Farewell to Arms (and now we're back to Papa...) |