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Jeff

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About Me

I'm a writer of surreal, fantastical, magic realist fiction who has a few novels and story collections out from publishers like Bantam and Tor and Pan Macmillan, in addition to translations in a lot of foreign countries. My latest novel is Shriek: An Afterword. I'm currently co-editing a Pirate anthology, a New Weird antho, and some other cool stuff. In January 2007, my short film Shriek, featuring a soundtrack by The Church, will debut on the internet. I also do a monthly comics column for Bookslut.com.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Lots of dead people, like Nabokov, Edward Whittemore, Angela Carter, Bulgakov. Failing that, I'd like to meet Mark Danielewski, Werner Herzog, Ridley Scott, and a few others. I have been lucky enough to meet Michael Moorcock, The Church, and a few others who've long been heroes to me.

My Blog

Hibernation

Hey--I'm mostly hanging out on my blog and on facebook these days. Hope to return here at some point, though.Jeff
Posted by on Sun, 01 Feb 2009 07:30:00 GMT

New Weird MySpace Page Now Live!

Announcing: The New Weird Anthology’s MySpace Page, featuring Video, Free Fiction, and Music   April Book Sense Notable selection The New Weird anthology from Tachyon Publications now has ...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:20:00 GMT

MASSIVE BOOK SALE

From art books to trade paper fiction, coffee table books to graphic novels, oddities to rarities, mystery to fiction anthologies, and everything in-between, the book sale is still going strong. Over ...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:21:00 GMT

SHRIEK: THE MOVIE

Hey--the movie based on Shriek is now up on the internet. Info here: http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2007/08/14/shriek-the-movie-re leased-on-internet/
Posted by on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:47:00 GMT

My New Website/blog

Hey, everybody--I'll still be doing some stuff on MySpace, but check out my new website/blog. It's VanderMeer Central: jeffvandermeer.com.   Jeff
Posted by on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:27:00 GMT

Cleaning Out My Office

I just finished cleaning out my office. A few of things I found are here. Soon, I will finish moving to WordPress and then synch my Wordpress blog to this blog and all will be well in the world. Jeff
Posted by on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:18:00 GMT

NATIONAL NPR SUNDAY

On Sunday, I'll be featured along with Charlie Stross, David Edelman, TC Boyle. Amir Aczel on a feature on economic genre fiction for Weekend Edition Sunday on NPR. It'll run about 20 minutes before t...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 20:07:00 GMT

EVIL MONKEY'S GUIDE TO CREATIVE WRITING

Well, in my spare time I've been working on the Evil Monkey Guide to Creative Writing. Here's the rough draft of the introduction. I'm sure it will undergo extensive revision.JeffMore than half of all...
Posted by on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 06:06:00 GMT

FIREFLY AND SERENITY

Ann and I decided to rent the entire first and only season of Firefly a couple of weeks ago. We watched it almost continuously until we'd finished it. We both thought it was one of the best SF series ...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 06:34:00 GMT

What?

What in god's name is this ridiculous meat puppet blathering on about? Hmmm?
Posted by on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:47:00 GMT