Larry Santoro
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- Children's Theatre Company (CTC) and School of Minneapolis Alumni Archive
- Classic Brick Bradford Comic-Strips
- Clear Writing with Mr. Clarity
- CONTRARY BRIN
- Here Lies RICHARD SALA
- Imagination All Compact: Musings, Literary and Otherwise
- Karen the Small Press Librarian
- Martin Mundt
- Steve's Generic Blog
- Tales of The Bagman
- The Diva's Divine Days
- The One-Thousand
- The Unofficial Site of Bank of America Cinema
- under caffinated
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Introduction | Started writing at 5. Won a playground storytelling contest at 8. In my 50s I got 2 nominations for the Bram Stoker Award by the Horror Writers Association. In 2001, my novella "God Screamed and Screamed, Then I Ate Him," was first. In 2010, I was named Best Narrator for 2009 by the StarShip Sofa in Great Britain. In 2002, I adapted and directed an audio version of Gene Wolfe's "The Tree Is My Hat." The show had Neil Gaiman in the cast and the script was my second Stoker nod. Fun, but not as much as the playground contest. As associate producer of the "Hyde & Seeke" tv series, I wrote, directed and supervised production throughout the show's first season. That was fun. In 2003, "Catching" was Stoker Recommended and received Honorable Mention in the Annual YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR antho. "So Many Tiny Mouths" was so-mentioned the next year. My first novel, JUST NORTH OF NOWHERE; was published in 2007. A mess of fiction will be out in 2010...much of which is still being written. Look for DRINK FOR THE THIRST TO COME. I live in Chicago and am married to Tycelia, the love of my life. That’s the ultimate fun! |
| Interests | Tycelia, Writing, Film, Astronomy, technology, Lighter-than-air flight, world beers, FTL travel |
| Favorite Movies | King Kong, 1933 version first and foremost, Peter Jackson's 2005 remake to a lesser degree, Fanny and Alexandra, The Usual Suspects, Amelie, Night of the Hunter, Pitch Black, Jan Svankmajer, The Christmas Story, The Captains Courageous, Oh Brother! Where Art Thou?, Citizen Kane, The Big Lebowski, The Shawshank Redemption, Field of Dreams, The Saragossa Manuscript, Enchanted April, To Kill a Mockingbird, Being John Malkovich, Session 9, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Wicker Man, Lord of the Rings, Brick |
| Favorite Music | Praetorius, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Britten, Barber, Patti Smith, the Ramones, Tom Waits, the Beatles, Warren Zevon, The Tiger Lillies, Eric Leonardson, MilkBaby |
| Favorite Books | Dandelion Wine, The Aubrey Maturin series, The Deptford Trilogy, The Horatio Hornblower series, To Kill a Mockingbird, Shakespeare, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa, Paradise Lost, Mists of Dawn, Danger Dinosaurs, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Once and Future King |
What would you name your ballet inspired by the sight of children leaping through a garden sprinkler?
Pas de damp