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Brent Robison

...because the story that can be told is not the Whole Story...

About Me

I write.
My story "Echoes: Five Men Speak" appears in the Summer Fiction issue of the online magazine Jerry Jazz Musician.
A short story appears in print and online in Chronogram , with Honorable Mention in their 2007 Short Fiction Contest.
My story "The Saxophone" appears in the inaugural issue of Margins Magazine.
Here's a short fiction piece called "Messenger," in Pindeldyboz.
This little one (a mere 100 words) may disappear soon: Boston Literary Magazine .
My story "A Confession of Love and Emptiness" has been nominated for a 2008 Pushcart Prize by the editors of the literary annual where it has just been published, Silent Voices , Volume III. Buy the magazine! (or read my story here ).
My short-short, "A Tripartite Abstract of Sample Events Typifying a Recent Widespread Occurrence of Synchronous Subtle Phenomena, Currently Undergoing Statistical Validation by a Team of Independent Researchers," appeared in the Spring issue of The Smoking Poet. Read it here .
Another small piece of mine, "Desert Vacation," won the 2006 Short Short Award from Literal Latte (NYC online lit mag). Read it in their archives: http://literal-latte.com .
Check out a story I wrote that won the 2005 Short Fiction Award from Chronogram magazine, called Phoenix Egg: Three Vignettes .
I'm also a Hudson Valley, NY regional literary publisher. Learn more about our journal, Prima Materia, here: Bliss Plot Press .
See other writing and visual art here: http://brentrobison.com .

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

MySelf

Music:

colin robison : myspace.com/colinrobison , John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Miles Davis, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Joe Henry, The Wood Brothers, Chet Baker, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Bruce Cockburn, Greg Brown, Paul Simon

Movies:

Ingmar Bergman, Bernardo Bertolucci, Charlie Kauffman, Lars Von Trier, Michel Gondry, Tom Tykwer, Peter Watkins, Milos Forman, Orson Welles, Federico Fellini

Television:

I don't smoke cigarettes; why would I watch TV?

Books:

Paul Auster, Siri Hustvedt, Jorge Luis Borges, Vladimir Nabokov, Denis Johnson, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Joy Williams, Jack Kerouac, Richard Brautigan, Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, Flannery O'Connor, Barry Yourgrau, Deepak Chopra, Natalie Goldberg, Julia Cameron, Joseph Campbell, Alan Watts, Lao Tzu

Heroes:

Wendy Drolma, Ted Denyer, Mark Abramson, Ghandi, Buddha

My Blog

An Austerrific Moment

I always dig it when these things happen: Last weekend, I had just eagerly retrieved my copy of Paul Auster's 2003 novel Oracle Night, months overdue on loan to my sister, and begun reading it for th...
Posted by Brent Robison on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:01:00 PST

Use me while you can

Bruce Cockburn closed his 1999 album "Breakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu" with another one of his many dark and beautiful prayer/songs.  Here's an excerpt: Sun a steel ball glowing Behi...
Posted by Brent Robison on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:08:00 PST

Where are you from?

Last night at a party in a rustic and magical cabin in the Catskills, a new acquaintance spoke about how he is native Argentine, once married to the sister of our Colombian host, but after many years&...
Posted by Brent Robison on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 11:15:00 PST