Ken Wohlrob
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born
January 01, 2001
gender
male
place of birth
The United States
website
genre
Literature & Fiction, Short Stories
influences
Flannery O'Connor, Charles Bukowski, Kurt Vonnegut, Stephen Crane, Yukio Mishima, Alaine Robbe-Grillet, Mavis Gallant, Sinclair Lewis, Mario Vargas Llosa
member since
January 2008
about this author
THE LOVE BOOK is my first collection of short stories. It is also available as an audiobook podcast from Podiobooks, which you can listen to via iTunes or Podiobooks.com. I live in Brooklyn, NY which is a hell of a lot better than where you live.
You can also read some of my stories as single-story e-books available on Amazon Kindle, Scribd, Smashwords, and Lulu. Click here for download/buy links.
I was the cofounder and editor of Bully Magazine from 1998-2003. My writing has appeared in Opium, The New York Press, Go Metric, Friction Magazine, FreeWilliamsburg, Motel, and AlcoholReviews. I've also participated in the Perpetual Motion Roadshow and the Needle Exchange Hour reading series. In 2006, I became a co-founder--...more
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Book of the Week: The Man Who Watched Trains Go By by Georges Simenon
He was a quiet man. That's what they always say about the guy who one day picks up an axe and wipes out the whole family. Kees Popinga, the central character of Georges Simenon's The Man Who Watched Trains Go By, is just such a fellow. He's got everything dialed nice and tight. He's obsessed with having constructed a first rate life: a wife, a daughter, a stove, and a house all of the "highest qu...more
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"Wohlrob writes urban folktales that skewer pretentious behavior and slyly capture the offbeat characters who texture the city. In this novella, a Puerto Rican janitor with a genuine passion for art finally gets a painting in a gallery, with unsettlin...more " | |||
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Hi Ken: Thanks for inviting me to your friends list. And thanks for the nice comment about my book's nomination, both on my page and the small-press group. That was kind of you. I enjoyed your video and hearing about the Blacksmiths---you guys don't look old enough to have a 30-year-reunion tour. Man, Freebird Books looks like a great store! Your reading was great, too---nice commentary on Irishness. Congrats on The Love Book!
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