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About Me

GIRLS FOR BREAKFAST (Delacorte/Laurel Leaf) is David's first novel. It's available in paperback and hardcover. GFB is a comic coming-of-age novel starring Nick Park, an ambivalent Korean American teenager obsessed with girls as he grows up in a WASPy town in Connecticut. It features an 80s soundtrack and a new form of martial arts, and if you read it backwards there's all kinds of weird messages hidden in reverse English.
"Girls for Breakfast performs the neat trick of taking the misery of adolescence and transforming it into fiction that is funny, engrossing, and perceptive. David Yoo is a talented writer with lots to say about sex, ethnicity, and whitebread suburbia." - Tom Perrotta (author of Little Children and Election)
"Funny, dark, and subversive. Beware: you'll never be able to look at a guy the same way after you read this book." - Rachel Cohn (author of Gingerbread and Shrimp)
David's second novel, STOP ME IF YOU'VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE (Hyperion), will be published in the Fall of 2008.
To learn more, visit www.daveyoo.com or www.girlsforbreakfast.com
His blog is at www.xanga.com/davidyoo Thanks for visiting...

My Interests

Music:

English Settlement. Skylarking. Crocodiles. Doolittle. 1/3 of Bossanova. Damn the Torpedoes. Short Sharp Shocked. Love Bites. October. Murmur. Tattoo You. Here Today, Tomorrow, Next Week! Fun. Mujer. Electric Warrior. Children of the Bear. The Vinyl Skyway. By All Means Necessary. Headhunters. Big Plans For Everybody. Goo. Appetite for Destruction. Exile in Guyville. Give em Enough Rope. What Is Beat. Positively Dumptruck. The Predator. What Is Shocking? Meat Is Murder. Hatful of Hollow. Spooky. Give It Up. Double Nickels on the Dime. Teenager of the Year. Squeezing Out Sparks.

Movies:

Five Easy Pieces. Electric Dreams. Watership Down. Sharkey's Machine. The Warriors. The Exorcist. The Hustler. Heathers. Election. Victory. 7 Up. Breaking Away. Rosemary's Baby. Mad Max. Rosie and Sammy Get Laid. Jaws. Repo Man. Battle Royal. Mildred Pierce. Straw Dogs. Carnal Knowledge. You Can Count On Me. Gimme Shelter.

Television:

The Equalizer. V: the series. Dungeons and Dragons (the cartoon). Undeclared. Andy Richter Controls the Universe. The Cutting Edge. The Simpsons. Misfits of Science. Voyagers. Real People. Shark documentaries.

Books:

Endless Love. Revolutionary Road. Mildred Pierce. Goodbye, Columbus (specifically). The Last Picture Show. Rats Saw God. Laughter In The Dark. The Barnum Museum. Rosemary's Baby. Darkness Moves. Fade. Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven. Then Again Maybe I Won't. Candide. Motel Chronicles. The Girl Who Owned a City. Slaughterhouse Five. We Think The World of You. Success. The Cat. The Night In Question. LA Confidential. The Magic of Blood. The Big Sleep. City of Boys. Wide Sargasso Sea. James and the Giant Peach. As She Climbed Across the Table. Being Dead. Kiss Me, Judas. Gingerbread. The Long Walk. Ball Don't Lie. Through the Safety Net. Sanctuary. Franny and Zooey. Lucia Berlin: (So Long, Phantom Pain, Where I Live Now, Angel's Laundromat, Homesick)

Heroes:

Zola Budd

My Blog

Interview at Totally YA

I just did an interview with E.I. Johnson. Check out links to the interview at my blog: xanga.com/davidyoo
Posted by David on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 06:33:00 PST