Bob Kalivac Carroll
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Novelist, Philosophy of Art Writer, Art & Book & Film Reviewer |
| Location | Northern California, United States |
| Introduction | Published writer (fiction and nonfiction) |
| Interests | Modern Art and Literature, Spirituality. PhD in Philosophy of Art at IDSVA (Institute for Doctoral Studies of the Visual Arts). Background includes: Rinzai Zen Buddhist practitioner in a rural monastic setting for 7 years. Some practice of Ashtanga Yoga. In recent decades, a student and advocate of teachings, art and literature of Adi Da Samraj. Also have been a paratrooper sergeant, amateur and professional boxer, prison teacher, librarian, bookseller, woodcutter, steelworker, newspaper reporter and columnist, diesel mechanic, welder, academic teacher, bibliophile, life-long student/learner, and so on. |
| Favorite movies | The Fall, Wolfen, The Big Lebowski, Blade Runner, The Thin Red Line, Wild at Heart, Heat,Mulholland Drive, The Matrix, and the work of filmmakers like video artist Bill Viola, cinematographer Maya Deren, avant-garde experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage, and painter and filmmaker David Lynch. |
| Favorite music | Rock, Jazz, Blues |
| Favorite books | Works by Jorge Luis Borges, Flannery O’Connor, Ray Bradbury, Mark Twain, Cormac McCarthy, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, James Joyce, Adi Da Samnraj. |