Grant Koo
My blogs
| Location | Jersey City, NJ, United States |
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| Introduction | Ideas turn me on. Grant Koo is a novelist, short story writer, recovered poet, blogger, pop culture critic without thumbs, and Senior Managing Editor at WebMD—though only one of these provide him with any income to support his habits, which can range from the utterly mundane to the morally questionable. He lives with his wife and daughter in Jersey City, NJ. Book 3, which completes the self-fulfilling trilogy, is now available. LIFE'S WORK: BUT ANOTHER PIXEL IN LCD REALITY A son discovers an unlikely literary inheritance while going through his dead father's things to decide on what to keep, what to donate, and what to throw away. In his somewhat untethered state, he attempts to complete one of his father's unfinished works, but when the son becomes an unexpected father himself, a spiritual wormhole opens up and threatens to swallow his whale of a story whole. Pub date: Dec 2016 FRAMING THE STORY Pub date: July 2015 AND THE PAST WENT ON BREATHING Pub date: Sep 2012 #GrantKooLovesYouToo |
| Interests | Finding Ways to Save Time, Finding Ways to Spend Time, Experience, Perception, Memory, Imagination, Poetry, Narrative, Identity, Relationships, Culture, Nature, Reading and Writing, Thinking, Walking, Drinking, Playing, Watching, Listening, Traveling |
| Favorite Movies | The Men who Stare at Goats, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Magnolia, The Squid and the Whale, The Royal Tenenbaums, Old Boy, Pineapple Express, Up In The Air, Leon The Professional, A History of Violence, Conversations with Other Women, There's Something About Mary, Raising Arizona |
| Favorite Music | LCD Soundsystem, Modest Mouse, Franz Ferdinand, Daft Punk, Arcade Fire, Death Cab for Cutie, MGMT, Gary Jules, Muse, Radiohead, Pink Martini, Beck, Coldplay, Jaurim, Cake, Ghost Ghost, The Sharp Lads, The Killers, Wyclef Jean, Yo-Yo Ma, Silvio Rodríguez, Tom Waits, Spoon, Weezer, Underworld |
| Favorite Books | Ulysses, The Brothers Karamazov, The Great Gatsby, Lolita, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Sun Also Rises, Labyrinths, On the Genealogy of Morality, Catch-22, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, Foucault's Pendulum, The Metamorphosis, Slaughterhouse-Five, Dance Dance Dance, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Discipline and Punish, Jitterbug Perfume, Love in the Time of Cholera, In Persuasion Nation, Nine Stories, The Glass Bead Game, The Unconsoled, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments, No Exit, The Communist Manifesto, The Interpretation of Dreams, Fear and Trembling, A Clockwork Orange, Hamlet, The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, The Long Goodbye, The Savage Detectives, The New York Trilogy, The Mezzanine, Waiting for Godot, The Dumb Waiter, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead |
Never mind the turtle. Don't you think you're sure to win?
I don't know. Ask me about chopsticks.