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Cori Crooks

If it's not love- then it's the bomb...

About Me

Writer, artist, and sometimes musician.
"Cori Crooks, artist and writer first made heads turn with her art/life blog, "A Gag Reflex", where she documented her quest for a DNA test and aired the results to the public. (Along with some photos of her mother posing in white cotton panties, circa 1950.) Her gutsy writing style and offbeat storytelling has since landed her a cult following and literary representation with Wendy Sherman Associates Inc., NYC. Look out for more from this new generation author."
Who me?
Currently working on:

Editing my book, "Gag Reflex: A Paternity Memoir", due to be released Fall 08 by Seal Press.
A "coming-of-age" graphic novel project with artist David Ferrin, centered around the groovy luxury apartment communities of the 1970's. *on hold*
Second book, "Guera"... About a poor white girl growing up in a Chicano neighborhood during the height of New Wave music.
News:
Jewelry currently on consignment with the American Museum of Ceramic Art! Woohoo!
CoriCrooks.com

My Interests

experimental writing, getting my craft on, my beautiful children, rain, science, sad music, bill murray, DIY, ceramics, glass beads, songwriting, cooking, travel, over sized bathtubs, making jewelry, Christmas time, growing vines, sand, sea, early morning, Autumn, tile, graphic novels, Alaska, whales & mermaids, lemon muffins and coffee, carpentry, cultural anthropology, passion flowers, paper, handmade art books, villages, birthday parties, road trips, and happy endings.

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to meet me at 16... give her a hug...and some advice.

Buy my work... please!

Etsy
Buy Handmade
ShrunkenCatHeads

Music:

Richard Buckner, Johnny Cash, Hank, Patsy, Agent Ribbons, The Pixies, Neutral Milk Hotel, Cake, the proclaimers, Pavement, the pogues, the white stripes, jolie Holland, radio show- "Cool as folk", Latin Jazz, and China Faye Tamblyn.

Movies:

Wings of desire, La Strada, Sliding Doors, The Goodbye Girl, Herbie Rides Again, Meatballs, Harold and Maude, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind, Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas

Television:

Battlestar galactica, flight of the conchords, the Daily Show, The office, Globe Trekker, my name is earl, Anthony Bourdain, that damned food network!

Books:

Richard Brautigan, Tom Robbins, Lynda Barry, Marjane Satrapi, Charles Dickens, Ivy Alvarez, Patrick O'Neil, The Synchronicity of Indeterminacy (on blogspot)

Heroes:

Devil James

My Blog

Driving Lesson - from the blog "A Gag Reflex"

Driving Lesson www.pierluigisurace.it My Mom said that she knew her Father. He was a bread baker. He had lived and worked in San Francisco, where he chased her 6 older half-brothers along the r...
Posted by Cori Crooks on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:39:00 PST

Short Story - "Flashing Titties"

Flashing TittiesWhen I was 15 my friends Michelle, Lupe, and I drove down 880 in Michelle's Impala, on our way to San Francisco. Michelle and Lupe were cousins, so I got the back seat.I don't know wha...
Posted by Cori Crooks on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 08:37:00 PST