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Stephan Clark

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About Me

My short fiction has been published by or is forthcoming in Ninth Letter , Night Train , Barrelhouse , Fourteen Hills , Drunken Boat , Portland Review , Ars Medica, Permafrost and Cincinnati Review and Swink and LA Weekly .You can mostly find me paying attention to my page over at Facebook .

My Interests

Reading. Writing. Not so much arithmetic.

I'd like to meet:

Other writers and journalists. Musicians I don't know anything about, and those I already do and wish others would hear too. Random Ukrainians. Maybe some Russians too. Just because this is a bigger world than that.

Music:

When I write, I can't listen to someone else's words. When I'm not writing, I like to listen to those other words. Then there's driving music.

Movies:

Smiles of a Summer Night. Chinatown. Summer School with Mark Harmon. All favorites.

Books:

My favorite collections of late include: "Natasha," by David Bezmozgis, "On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction," by Karl Iagnemma, and "Brief Encouters with Che Guevara," by Ben Fountain III.I just got around to "In Cold Blood." It's great, as I should've known.Novels I've enjoyed recently: the new Zadie Smith and Salman Rushdie.

My Blog

Geography of the Heart (part 2 of 8)

It is impossible to say how many U.S. citizens are separated from a foreign national spouse by current immigration law. Some spouses are deported, others are denied entrance visas, and still more crea...
Posted by Stephan Clark on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:05:00 PST

The Geography of the Heart (Part 1 of 8)

The Geography of the HeartHow US immigration law divides familiesBy Stephan ClarkOne Sunday almost four years ago, Thomas Carson, a 50-year old electrical engineer with corporate commendations from Na...
Posted by Stephan Clark on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:18:00 PST

Swink

Swink is out, and I'm in it here. Yes, Stephen Clark. What a difference a vowel makes. Beside that, it's a great issue, well worth checking out. Hope you'll take the time....
Posted by Stephan Clark on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 03:35:00 PST

The Bachelor Husband

I went out the other night, caring little for matters of grooming or personal hygiene. The event was a fiction reading at the Mountain bar in Chinatown. It was a student thing -- student organizers, s...
Posted by Stephan Clark on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 10:28:00 PST

If the Swedes ruled the world

I forget the title, and I'll probably mess up the plot, but there is a movie in Russia, a very famous movie I was told about more than once, that tells the story of a man who gets so drunk the night b...
Posted by Stephan Clark on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 10:27:00 PST

The Height of Fashion in America

I've said it before, but I find myself needing to say it again: I never realized the power of the high heel until I went to Ukraine because I so rarely saw a high heel on the foot of an American woman...
Posted by Stephan Clark on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:05:00 PST

I want to live in Los Angeles

Yesterday, my first in the southland, was one of those Los Angeles days that made even a northern Californian forget he'd fallen below Monterey. The skies were clear and the weather was set to perfect...
Posted by Stephan Clark on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:31:00 PST

Back in the USSA

If my feelings of paranoia were a stock, it'd be up 137 percent since my return to the United States. All these television commercials for narcotic-free sleeping aids and monthly osteoporosis treatmen...
Posted by Stephan Clark on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:29:00 PST

Harping on Harper's

Before I left for Ukraine last fall, I sent a query letter to Harper's magazine, describing the research trip I was embarking upon and asking if they would be interested in reading something based on ...
Posted by Stephan Clark on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 03:36:00 PST

Locked Hearts in the Land of Plenty

There are men in Ukraine who can leave this country without getting married, proposing, or having so much fun they believed it impossible to do either of the previous two. There are men -- and ninetee...
Posted by Stephan Clark on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 05:18:00 PST