Kevin Sampsell
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http://www.goodreads.com/kevinsampsell
born
March 17, 1967
gender
male
place of birth
Kennewick, Washington, The United States
website
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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Entertainment
influences
Sex, bacon, guitar feedback...
member since
June 2007
about this author
I am the publisher of Future Tense Books in Portland, Oregon. I work at Powell's Books. I write reviews and articles for various papers and mags. I have a few books out. My newest short story collection, Creamy Bullets, came out in 2008 from Chiasmus Press. Portland Noir, a book of crime fiction that I edited for Akashic Books, is now out! My memoir, A Common Pornography (the long version!), is due out from Harper Perennial in early 2010.
Here's a few links to some stuff:
Flash fiction and flash interview in Smokelong Quarterly.
Memoir excerpt on Smith Magazine.
An essay about music in my book, Creamy Bullets
Short story ("Reunion") at Night Train
Sexy(?) Flash Fiction at Word Riot
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Beautiful Blemish by Kevin Sampsell (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.36 — 42 ratings — published 2005 |
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Creamy Bullets by Kevin Sampsell (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.34 — 41 ratings — published 2008 |
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The Insomniac Reader: Stories of the Night by Kevin Sampsell (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.83 — 30 ratings — published 2005 |
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A Common Pornography (Future Tense limited edition, 2002) by Kevin Sampsell (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.65 — 23 ratings — published 2002 |
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How to Lose Your Mind With Lights On by Kevin Sampsell (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.25 — 12 ratings — published 1994 |
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Patricia Letters by Kevin Sampsell (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.25 — 12 ratings — published 1996 |
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Portland Noir (Akashic Noir) by Kevin Sampsell (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.92 — 12 ratings — published 2009 |
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Haiku Inferno by Kevin Sampsell (Goodreads author), Frank D'Andrea, Elizabeth Miller, Frayn Masters (Haiku Inferno) avg rating 4.00 — 9 ratings — published 2007 |
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Invisible Radios: re-mixes, statistics, jokes, etc. by Kevin Sampsell (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.14 — 7 ratings — published 1998 |
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Diner Anthology by Kevin Sampsell (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published 1995 |
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Portland Noir in Seattle
Author appearance, July 11, 2009 07:00PM
Elliot Bay Books, 101 S Main St., Seattle, WA, The United States
A Portland-Seattle mash-up with me, Seattle editor Curt Colbert, and contributor...more
Author appearance, July 11, 2009 07:00PM
Elliot Bay Books, 101 S Main St., Seattle, WA, The United States
A Portland-Seattle mash-up with me, Seattle editor Curt Colbert, and contributor...more
Portland Noir vs Seattle Noir
Author appearance, July 15, 2009 07:30PM
Murder By the Book, 3210 SE Hawthorne BLVD., Portland, OR, The United States
Join me and Portland Noir contributors Kimberly Warner Cohen and (local mystery ...more
Author appearance, July 15, 2009 07:30PM
Murder By the Book, 3210 SE Hawthorne BLVD., Portland, OR, The United States
Join me and Portland Noir contributors Kimberly Warner Cohen and (local mystery ...more
Tour Blogging! (Nonfiction)
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I'm in the midwest for a few days hanging out with many dozens of literary stars!
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Livability: Stories (Paperback) by Jon Raymond bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned: Stories (Hardcover) by Wells Tower bookshelves: currently-reading, weird-lit |
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Fahrenheit 451 (Paperback) by Ray Bradbury |
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So Many Things That Want To Burn (Paperback) by Brian Christopher |
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Misfits and Other Heroes (Paperback) by Suzanne Burns (Goodreads author) |
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Megan's
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"With Kevin Sampsell, you get the sense of a writer who feels uninhibited about responding to the current social climate with language. This is a refreshing encounter in the midst of a sea of fiction writers who seems painfully self-conscious about fo...more " | |
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"This book really inspired me. I struggle with writing short fiction,and want to so desperately ,so I am always on the lookout for inspiration. Sampsell is able to do so in these wonderful bright, awake little bursts of sparks and fluff (sto...more " | |
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I Date a Hooker (Perfect Paperback) by Jeff Fischer |
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My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up (Paperback) by Stephen Elliott |
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"Though you can tell these stories are probably 90% true, they lend themselves well to their fictional frames. Elliott is pretty great with mixing his stories of kink and romance with a deeper emotional and psychological resonance.
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— Karen Russell
— Karen Russell
"They weren't hours, these classes; they weren't even forty-five minutes--they were "periods," which sounded to me as if they were each at once a little era and then the end you had to see decisively put to it."
— Gary Lutz
— Gary Lutz
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"A chainsaw's God's way of evening out the playing field between you and everything, even the invisible stuff."
— Jennifer L. Knox (Drunk by Noon)
— Jennifer L. Knox (Drunk by Noon)
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hey thanks kevin. CREAMY BULLETS will be immediately at the top of my reading list when it arrives ;)
Thanks for publishing Gary Lutz's A Partial List of People to Bleach. The world is a better place with that book in it.
Ya, sure. Where are my reads? Best intentions and all, but haven't had a moment to log my books. I'm saving up.
I've heard so much about you.Or maybe it's just that I've heard you exist over and over.
I guess you'll have that.
Actually, I think you rejected one of my books once. For which I am not bitter.
Really.
Hi, Kevin! Thanks for the add; it's good to "see" you in yet another circle. And good to hear about your literary press too. . . I'll have to check out Future Tense!
I predict I'll be out your way within the year.Just turned in my book edits today. Feels like running a marathon, and when you're finished, you're too tired to even say, Yay!
Hey Kevin - glad you like the site - and thanks for helping spread the word! T-shirts coming soon :)
Thanks for sharing, Kevin! I haven't read any of those works, so I'll definitely check them out.Here's wishing you the best in all aspects of your life.
-Jeremy :)
Hi Kevin!If you don't mind sharing--I was wondering, what's your favorite book of all time?
Here’s wishing you a weekend filled with wacky whims, wonderful weirdness, and well-disposed werecats.
-Jeremy :)
yes, indeed. and today, of all the things to be thankful for, this reminds me what an incredible gift literacy really is.
Aw, thanks and shucks and stuff. You too, really, I spent forever reading your reviews and now I have several dozen books to read.I love Powells, maybe next time I'm in Portland you can show me some favorite books. I work at BookPeople in Austin. Yay bookstores.
Hello, Kevin,
Thanks for the add request. After perusing your book list, I know that having you for a goodreads pal will keep me in literary heaven for years! I rarely get up to Amsterdam to visit the English bookstore (and they wouldn't have too many - if any - small press offerings)...but on my annual trip to Portland, I spend hours at Powells. Usually I'm so overwhelmed with all there is to read, I don't know where to start. I end up going waaaaay over the weight limit on my return luggage...
Cheers,
Tish
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