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Barry Graham
Biography
"The awesome Barry Graham"
- American Book Review
Barry Graham is an author, screenwriter, poet, journalist and blogger whose dark and gritty urban novels have received international acclaim and whose reporting has helped more than one corrupt politician leave office. He has written for a diversity of magazines and newspapers, including Harper's, Flaunt, Parabola, Las Vegas Life, The Arizona Republic and Scotland on Sunday. His blog contains reporting and commentary on politics, critical theory, the death penalty, urbanism, sustainability, books, films and Zen practice.
Born and dragged up in Glasgow, Scotland, he has traveled widely and is currently based in the U.S. His previous occupations include boxing and grave-digging. He is also a Zen monk, and serves as the Abbot of The Sitting Frog Zen Center. His book of Zen teachings, Kill Your Self: Life After Ego, was published in 2011. His most recent novel, When It All Comes Down to Dust, was published in January 2012.
He has witnessed two executions in Florence, Arizona, at the invitation of the prisoners. His account of that experience won a FOLIO Silver Medal in the Best Single Article category, and is included in his nonfiction book Why I Watch People Die.
Barry Graham's books include the novels The Wrong Thing, The Book of Man (chosen by the American Library Association as one of the best books of 1995), How Do You Like Your Blue-Eyed Boy? and Of Darkness and Light, the story collections Scumbo and Before, and a poetry collection, Traffic and Murder. His stories have been published in the anthologies Phoenix Noir, Send My Love and a Molotov Cocktail, Suspect Device and Intoxication. His short screenplay Holding Back the Dawn was produced in 2001.
In 2009, the French magazine Transfuge named Barry Graham one of the great "post-realist" authors. A collection of his fiction and nonfiction, Regarde Les Hommes Mourir, is published in French by Treizième Note Editions. He is collaborating with French artist Vince Larue on a graphic novel, Dark Heat.
- American Book Review
Barry Graham is an author, screenwriter, poet, journalist and blogger whose dark and gritty urban novels have received international acclaim and whose reporting has helped more than one corrupt politician leave office. He has written for a diversity of magazines and newspapers, including Harper's, Flaunt, Parabola, Las Vegas Life, The Arizona Republic and Scotland on Sunday. His blog contains reporting and commentary on politics, critical theory, the death penalty, urbanism, sustainability, books, films and Zen practice.
Born and dragged up in Glasgow, Scotland, he has traveled widely and is currently based in the U.S. His previous occupations include boxing and grave-digging. He is also a Zen monk, and serves as the Abbot of The Sitting Frog Zen Center. His book of Zen teachings, Kill Your Self: Life After Ego, was published in 2011. His most recent novel, When It All Comes Down to Dust, was published in January 2012.
He has witnessed two executions in Florence, Arizona, at the invitation of the prisoners. His account of that experience won a FOLIO Silver Medal in the Best Single Article category, and is included in his nonfiction book Why I Watch People Die.
Barry Graham's books include the novels The Wrong Thing, The Book of Man (chosen by the American Library Association as one of the best books of 1995), How Do You Like Your Blue-Eyed Boy? and Of Darkness and Light, the story collections Scumbo and Before, and a poetry collection, Traffic and Murder. His stories have been published in the anthologies Phoenix Noir, Send My Love and a Molotov Cocktail, Suspect Device and Intoxication. His short screenplay Holding Back the Dawn was produced in 2001.
In 2009, the French magazine Transfuge named Barry Graham one of the great "post-realist" authors. A collection of his fiction and nonfiction, Regarde Les Hommes Mourir, is published in French by Treizième Note Editions. He is collaborating with French artist Vince Larue on a graphic novel, Dark Heat.
Where to find Barry Graham online
Website: http://barrygrahamauthor.com
Twitter: dogobarrygraham
Blog: http://dogobarrygraham.blogspot.com
Twitter: dogobarrygraham
- DogoBarryGraham: Trump Tees Off in the Scottish Legislature - Truthdig http://t.co/HMmyYFyg
- DogoBarryGraham: Solicitor General Verrilli Fumbles on Immigration at the Supreme Court http://t.co/U7kZwVsW via @thedailybeast
- DogoBarryGraham: Slavoj Zizek debates David Horowitz on Julian Assange's TV show. Horowitz is embarrassingly stupid and ignorant. http://t.co/oum15HOO
- DogoBarryGraham: Earth faces a century of disasters, report warns http://t.co/raUdV5x3 via @guardian
- DogoBarryGraham: Kevin Drum, Like Obama, Ignores the Existence of Poverty http://t.co/9ro6XT9T
Blog: http://dogobarrygraham.blogspot.com