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Favorite Authors:

Hannah Arendt, Perry Miller, Franz Kafka, W. T. Stace, Stanley Elkin, Howard Nemerov, William H. Gass, John Gardner, Eudora Welty, Dorothy Parker, Mark Twain, George Orwell, Owen Barfield, Ursula K. LeGuin, Dylan Thomas, William Shakespeare, Kurt Vonnegut, Bertrand Russell

What I'm Reading Now, Author 5:

Stephen Hawking

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Favorite Books:

Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition, On Revolution, Men in Dark Times, Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought, , Crises of the Republic, The Life of the Mind: Thinking / Willing; Perry Miller, Jonathan Edwards, The Life of the Mind in America: From the Revolution to the Civil War, Errand into the Wilderness, Nature's Nation, The Responsibility of Mind in a Civilization of Machines; Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Benito Cereno, Billy Budd, The Encantadas, Bartleby the Scrivener: A Tale of Wall Street; Edmund Wilson, To the Finland Station, The Wound and the Bow; W. T. Stace, Man Against Darkness and Other Essays; George Orwell, 1984; William Dalrymple, White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India; Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano; Joseph Church, Language and the Discovery of Reality; Alice Miller, Prisoners of Childhood, For Your Own Good, Banished Knowledge, The Untouched Key; Paul Ricoeur, The Rule of Metaphor;

What I'm Reading Now, Book 1:

Don Quixote

What I'm Reading Now, Book 5:

A Brief History of Time

What I'm Reading Now, Author 1:

Cervantes; Edith Grossman, Translator

What I'm Reading Now, Book 2:

Max Havelaar

What I'm Reading Now, Author 2:

Multatuli [Eduard Douwes Dekker]

What I'm Reading Now, Book 3:

Java: Pearl of the East

What I'm Reading Now, Author 3:

S. J. Higginson

What I'm Reading Now, Book 4:

The Way of Life According to Laotzu: An American Version

What I'm Reading Now, Author 4:

Witter Bynner, Translator

author_statement:

Poet, novelist and philosopher, Dennis Weiser is a former editorial page columnist at The Kansas City Business Journal and book reviewer for NPR affiliate KCUR-FM in Kansas City, Missouri. Dennis has published articles, poetry and fiction in Chouteau Review, Thorny Locust, Abramelin, New Letters and p.r.n., as well as several anthologies from Outrider Press. “Excellence”, his parable of genocidal race hatred, was the featured “Original Fiction” in The Illuminata, Bret Funk, Editor, Vol 2:Issue 8 (Tyrannosaurus Press), pp. 9-15. An excerpt from his novel, Crash Dummies, won first prize for prose fiction at the Printers Row Book Fair in Chicago and was published in Things That Go Bump in the Night (Outrider Press 2004). Dennis has read at Barnes & Noble, Borders, Prospero’s Books, The Way Out Club and Venice Café. He is a member of the online directory of poets at Poets & Writers (www.pw.org). His biography is included in Marquis Who’s Who in America (2007) and Who’s Who in the World (2008). His most recent publication, “Hidden Song”, appears in The Sixth Surface: Steven Holl Lights the Nelson-Atkins Museum (Kansas City: Topo/Graphis Press 2007). Dennis holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Westminster College and an M.A. in Philosophy from The University of Kansas. Currently a member of The Writers Place, Dennis is finishing a screen adaptation of Crash Dummies and writing his third novel, a historical thriller set against the tumultuous backdrop of Dutch colonialism in 1879 Java.

Prizes Won:

2004 TallGrass Writers Guild Winner of First Place in Prose Fiction for novel excerpt [CRASH DUMMIES] awarded at Chicago Printers Row Book Fair June 6, published in THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT—[$500]; 1978 Samuel Robins Prize Winner 1972 Rockefeller Fellowship Nominee

Private E-mail:

sita.dcw@gmail.com

With whom do you prefer to work?:

Adults

Any

At Risk Youth

Children

Mentally Ill

Naturalists/Environmentalists

People with Disabilities

Seniors

Teachers

Teenagers

Veterans

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

French

German

How do you want to identify yourself?:

British

Disabled

Feminist

German American

Irish American

Jewish

Scotch-Irish American

Born in (Country):

United States

Born in (City):

Philadelphia

Raised in (Country):

United States

Raised in (City):

St. Louis

Raised in (State):

Missouri

First Name:

Dennis

Photo of the Author:

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Last Name:

Weiser

Yes

Are you interested in giving readings?:

Yes

Are you willing to travel to give readings?:

Yes

Listed as:

Creative Nonfiction Writer, Fiction Writer, Poet

Application Accepted:

Application not Accepted

Phone:

816-813-0528

E-mail:

sita.dcw@gmail.com [1]

Website:

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/crashdummies [2]

516 W. 39 Terrace Apt. 4

Kansas City, MO 64111-2927

516 W. 39 Terrace Apt. 4

Kansas City, MO 64111-2927

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Allegory: The Work of Dennis Weiser [3]

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Publications; "The Cult of Marketing and Its Challenge to American Civilization"

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Scrimshaw Press [4]

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Allegory; Buddha Was A Deadbeat Dad

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My Space [5]

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More Bio, Mini-Store, Frappr Map, Imageloops

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EditRed [6]

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"Life's A Wonderful It", "Tzytzyan Ysalane" (2004 Prizewinner Chicago PRBF)

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Directory Listing / Bio

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Poets & Writers [7]