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Arnold Skemer [1]

Listed as: 
Fiction Writer
Public address: 
Oakland Gardens, NY
New York US
Email: 
phrygianzyx@Gmail.com
Bio: 

Primary focus: Oneiric distortions of reality trending towards pure surrealism, the perversities of history, anomalies of the social order, futility, inherent despair, malfunctions of the state, the sickness inherent in the human psyche, urban decay and anomie, the dread perplexity of mankind's progress and evolution wedged into fiction and poetic output of an oft unusual structuring.

Gives readings: 
No
Travels for readings: 
No
Favorite authors: 
THE CANNIBAL by John Hawkes, NIGHTWOOD by Djuna Barnes, JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR by Daniel Defoe, DIRECTIONS TO SERVANTS by Jonathan Swift, , A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY by Laurence Sterne, THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO by Alexander Solzhenitzn, MALDOROR by Lautreamont
Born in: 
New York, NY
New York
Raised in: 
New York, NY
New York
What I'm reading now: 
THE FATAL SHORE; The Epic of Australia's Founding by Robert Hughes
HENRY VI, Parts 1, 2 and 3 by Shakespeare
LA BATAILLE DE PHARSALE by Claude Simon
L'ENFER by Henri Barbusse

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