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  <name><![CDATA[D.R. Haney]]></name>
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  <fans-count type="integer">7</fans-count>
  <followers-count type="integer">7</followers-count>
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  <about><![CDATA[I come from a long line of Southern preachers and farmers. Horses have brought bad luck to my family; both my  uncle and great-grandfather were killed by horses. I therefore avoid horses, though one of my three brothers now raises and breeds them. I moved to New York City shortly after finishing high school, and supported myself through a series of odd jobs, from Wall Street waiter to telephone salesman peddling children's books to parcel-wrapper in the cellar of famed boutique Henri Bendel. An autodidact, I  read omnivorously and occasionally wrote for zines and other small publications, meantime pursuing my lifelong interest in underground music, which I continued to follow after moving to Los Angeles. For a number of years I tried to complete a novel, &lt;i&gt;Passing Helen&lt;/i&gt;, which  I finally abandoned when the book, with its shifting points of view, proved unsolvable. Then, too, there were complications arising from a near-fatal accident, including a crippling anxiety disorder. This event and its aftermath prominently figured in &lt;i&gt;Banned for Life&lt;/i&gt;, the novel I relocated to Belgrade, Serbia to write, around the time of the fall of Slobodan Milosevic. &lt;i&gt;Banned&lt;/i&gt; was published by a small imprint in Vancouver, And/Or Press, in May 2009, and I currently work whenever I can on on a new novel, which is tentatively entitled &lt;i&gt;Handsome&lt;/i&gt;, and draws in part on my experience as a model: yet another odd job that may have been the oddest of them all. 

A few links:

&lt;a href=&quot; http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2009/10/book_notes_dr_h.html
&quot;&gt; &lt;i&gt;Banned for Life&lt;/i&gt; Book Notes at Largehearted Boy &lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href=&quot; http://www.godonnybrook.com/home/?p=3741&quot;&gt;Donnybrook Writing Academy podcast featuring songs selected by the author&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href=&quot;http://blip.tv/file/1306408 &quot;&gt;Podcast interview on Indie 103.1 in Los Angeles (Suicide Girls Radio) 9/29/2008&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href=http://www.bakotopia.com/home/ViewPost/101941&gt; Capsule review of &lt;i&gt;Banned for Life&lt;/i&gt; on summer-reading list&lt;/a&gt; 

&lt;a href=http://archives.thenervousbreakdown.com/mlpony/2009/07/the-virgin-interview-dr-haney-on-banned-for-life/&gt;Interview about &lt;i&gt;Banned&lt;/i&gt; at The Nervous Breakdown 7/09&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href=&quot; http://www.exacteditions.com/exact/browse/531/713/4691/3/169/0/haney&quot;&gt;Piece in &lt;i&gt;Tank&lt;/i&gt; magazine (UK) 1/2009&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href=&quot; http://www.twitter.com&quot;&gt;D. R. Haney on Twitter&lt;/a&gt;

More to come




 ]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[I honestly don't think my style as a writer has been consciously influenced by any other, though I'm partial to the work of Kerouac, Mailer, Hemingway, Faulkner, (Nathaniel) West, Fitzgerald, Bellow, Celine, Rimbaud, Woolf, Chekhov, (Flannery) O'Connor, Didion, (Sam) Shepard, Keats, Byron, Catullus, Nietzsche, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Flaubert, and Whitman. ]]></influences>          
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Banned for Life]]></title>
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  <published>2009</published>  
  
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