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Neil Schiller

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http://www.goodreads.com/CubanHeel

born

January 02, 1974 in Liverpool, The United Kingdom

gender

male

website

http://neilschiller.wordpress.com/

genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Poetry

influences

Raymond Carver, Charles Bukowski, Ken Kesey

member since

December 2010

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Neil Schiller is an IT consultant and part time academic from Liverpool. Previously, he has published critical work on the authors Charles Bukowski and Richard Brautigan. His first work of fiction, Oblivious, a collection of 21 short stories about life in the North West of England, was released in November 2010. The Haiku Diary – the result of a project where a diary was kept in Haiku form for each day of 2008 – followed in December.

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Neil Schiller's Blog

Unplugged (Lazarus Remix) – 7″ Fiction

This is a bit of an experiment. I wanted to do a remix of a story to put on the B-Side of a piece of 7″ fiction to mimic the way record companies like to fill up space with not-really-new material. But I had no idea how to do it. Until, that is, I stumbled upon this on Jeff Noon’s website: Dub Fiction/Remixing Narrative. It’s well worth a read if you have the time.

So I used some of the ideas he...

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Books by Neil Schiller

Average rating: 4.19 · 42 ratings · 17 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Oblivious 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Haiku Diary 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Bestseller Bound Anthology (Volume 1) by Darcia Helle (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jaleta Clegg (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Neil Schiller (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.88 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Bestseller Bound Anthology (Volume 1) by Jaleta Clegg (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Magnolia Belle (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Sharon E. Cathcart (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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Ice Cream Man (Literature & Fiction)

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Description: This is an orphaned story from my collection Oblivious - it didn't quite make the grade at the time. I wrote it in response to a writing group exercise prompt and started as a horror story and ended up about realising with despair your dreams are as far away as they ever were...

Neil is Currently Reading

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The Dead Beat

by Cody James

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Neil Schiller is now friends with Tom Conrad
May 21, 2012 02:54pm
Neil Schiller made a comment on Ice Cream Man: "David wrote: "I like your prose style. Keep up the good work. You have a knowledge of your material and have pulled off something thoughtful yet not o...more "
Mar 11, 2012 07:29am
Neil Schiller gave to: Sawn-Off Tales (Salt Modern Fiction) by David Gaffney read in July, 2011	My rating:
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Neil Schiller gave to: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson read in July, 2011	My rating:
Jul 24, 2011 05:59am
Neil Schiller is currently reading: The Dead Beat by Cody James	My rating:
Jul 24, 2011 05:58am
Neil Schiller marked as to-read: Greyhound by Steffan Piper (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
Jul 24, 2011 05:58am
Neil Schiller made a comment on Songs for a Collapsing World: "Thanks Maria. It all stems from the story I have in the anthology - I enjoyed writing that one and thought I'd do some more about different aspects of...more "
Jul 05, 2011 04:03pm
Neil Schiller is on page 200 of 426 of Ghostwritten Ghostwritten by David Mitchell progress:	My rating:
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Neil Schiller marked as to-read: Bestseller Bound Anthology (Volume 1) by Darcia Helle (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
May 30, 2011 12:04pm
Neil Schiller made a comment on Real Rapture -- Harold Camping & Glenn Beck: "Well, the water got a bit choppy when a fat bloke jumped in (no, not me, I was already in) but you could hardly call it an apocolyptic event... "
May 24, 2011 05:56am

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Quotes by Neil Schiller

“A sweeping vista of Northern sky opens up between the warehouses and hangs motionless above the cobbled streets. It’s a world of unrequited love beneath the smoke stacks and awkward moments in the underpass. A great crashing wave of romantic despair that washes over my dramatic heart, dousing it with a thin grey rinse. I’m James Dean, I’m Albert Camus, I posture in doorways with a lit cigarette dangling from the corner of my mouth. My great iron bedstead, my kitchen sink drama, the grainy black and white days of this life...”
― Neil Schiller, Oblivious

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