Patrick Dacey
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- Average Popularity
- Burnside Review...The L.A. Story
- Del Sol Press Books
- Hayden's Ferry Review
- Joshua Harmon
- NewPages Blog
- Old Hard Love
- pshares blog
- Short Story Reader
- The Basement Tapes
- THE GUT ZINE
- The Real Blogger Status
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Location | Richmond, VA |
| Introduction | Novelist and short-story writer with an MFA from Syracuse University. Published in BOMB Magazine, The Washington Square Review, Bateau, Faultline, Stone Canoe, and The Smithsonian. Recently completed my first novel. Born in Annapolis, raised in Hyannis, lived in China, Mexico, and Syracuse, and now a resident in Richmond, VA. Interested in the novel, story, the American landscape, and memory. Have a 15 year old dog named Buddha. Represented by Jonah Straus at Straus Literary |
| Favorite Movies | Talk to Her, As Good as it Gets, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Good Will Hunting, Million Dollar Baby, The Cincinnatti Kid, Dead Man, Rushmore, Unforgiven, LA Confidential, Casino, Big Lebowski, Fargo... |
| Favorite Music | Neil Young, Dylan, My Morning Jacket, Ryan Adams, Soulive, Grant Green, Albert King, Blind Willie Mctell, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Lightnin Hopkins, Gillian Welch, Richmond Fontaine, Wilco, Handsome Family, John Hammond, Lucinda Williams, Tom Waits, Calexico, Tom Russell, Buddy Guy, Taj Mahal, etc. |
| Favorite Books | Exely: A Fan's Notes; Saunders: Civil War Land In Bad Decline, Pastoralia; McCarthy: Blood Meridian; Burkard: Entire Dilemma; Carver: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral; Greene: Power and the Glory, The Quiet American; Johnson: Jesus' Son; Bowels: Collected Stories, The Sheltering Sky; Abbott: All Things All at Once; Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men; Cannery Row; Stone: Dog Soldiers, Bear and His Daughter; Ishuguro: Remains of the Day; Maxwell: So Long See You Tomorrow; Puig: Kiss of the Spider Woman; Cortazar: The End of the Game or Blow Up; Celine: Journey to the End of the Night; Hemingway: Stories, The Sun Also Rises, Old Man and the Sea; Gardea: Stripping Away the Sorrows From This World; Bolano: Last Evenings on Earth; Cather: Death Comes for the Archbishop; Mo Yan: Life and Death are Wearing Me Out; Zhu Wen: I Love Dollars; Charles Jackson: The Lost Weekend; Richard Ford: The Sportswriter; Juan Rulfo: The Burning Plain, Pedro Paramo; Murakami: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles... |