Okla Elliott
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| Gender | Male |
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| Location | United States |
| Introduction | I'm a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois, where I am engaging in the high-falutin fields of translation, trauma studies, and Theory (apparently, I only study things that begin with the letter "t"). My nonfiction, poetry, short fiction, and translations have appeared in literary journals like Circumference, Indiana Review, The Literary Review, New Letters, North Dakota Quarterly, New York Quarterly, and A Public Space. I am the author of two chapbooks and co-editor, with Kyle Minor, of The Other Chekhov. I like theatre and film and write some of that stuff too. I'm from Argyle, Kentucky (no relation to the socks), and have lived in Mannheim, Germany, and Wroclaw, Poland, among other places. Oh, and I'm a great fan of bunny rabbits, robots, and monkeys. |
| Favorite movies | In the Bedroom, Kicking and Screaming, Cemetery Man, Old Boy, The Lives of Others, Memento, Dancer in the Dark, The English Patient, Dead Man, La Cite des Enfants Perdus, The Man Who Wasn't There, and Dogville. |
| Favorite music | Tom Waits, Will Oldham, The Decembrists, Magnetic Fields, Destroyer, Karl Orff, Dmitri Shostakovich, Momus, Leonard Cohen, Cake, Adam Green, Sonic Youth, The Pixies, The Smiths (sometimes), The Cure (again, sometimes), Donovan, and The Handsome Family. |
| Favorite books | The Man Without Qualities (by Robert Musil), Rising Up and Rising Down (by William T. Vollmann), most of the 80-plus books David Slavitt has written, The Never-Ending (by Andrew Hudgins), Practical Gods (by Carl Dennis), Disgrace (by J.M. Coetzee), The Silent Partner (by Greg Williamson), Migration (by W.S. Merwin), High Lonesome (by Joyce Carol Oates), Drive, Dive, Dance and Fight (by Thomas E. Kennedy), Cancer Ward (by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn), All the King's Men (by Robert Penn Warren), Collected Poems (by Robert Penn Warren), Love and Hydrogen (by Jim Shepard), The Blind Assassin (by Margaret Atwood), The Sound and the Fury (by William Faulkner), The Sunlight Dialogues (by John Gardner), The Holy Book of the Beard (by Duff Brenna), Ecstatic in the Poison (by Andrew Hudgins), Babylon in a Jar (by Andrew Hudgins), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (by Carson McCullers), Skinny Legs and All (by Tom Robbins), Grendel (by John Gardner), A Piece of my Heart (by Richard Ford), Creation (by Gore Vidal), Love is the Crooked Thing (by Lee K. Abbott), All Things, All at Once (by Lee K. Abbott), Ragtime (by E.L. Doctorow), Nightworks (by Marvin Bell), Darkness at Noon (by Arthur Koestler), The Corrections (by Jonathan Franzen), The Bright Forever (by Lee Martin), You Bright and Risen Angels (by William T. Vollmann), Notes From the Underground (by Fyodor Dostoyevsky), Tooth and Claw (by T.C. Boyle), What is the What (by Dave Eggers), and No Country for Old Men (by Cormac McCarthy). |