Curious friends, countrymen, relatives, coworkers, and other
folks who share the name "Lee Klein," I welcome you to a page concocted
to organize the residue of one very particular Lee Klein's literary
activity.
(Please realize that this page does not serve this Lee
Klein -- other LKs are linked to below. Also, please realize that this
is not a blog. I repeat, not a blog. Just a storehouse of links
for entertainment purposes only.)
Re: the bolded title above: My name is Lee Klein. Lee either
means "meadow," "dregs," or "the sheltered side from the wind". Klein
means
"small" in German. My mom's maiden name means "suffering" in Polish. My
"Dances With Wolves" name, therefore, is: Small Suffering Meadow on
the Sheltered Side of the Wind. ("Dregs" can replace "meadow" when
necessary).
Since May 2007, I've been working a mysterious editorial job located
a reasonable walk from where I live, which is over by the end of the Italian
Market and the cheesesteakeries
in South Philly. For a year before that, I taught two semesters of
fiction writing, creative writing, non-fiction writing, and English Lit
at Temple University. Before I moved to Philly, I learned to write fiction
at the Iowa
Writers' Workshop in Iowa City, where I moved from Brooklyn
(Greenpoint), where I lived for four years -- before that Princeton,
before that hometown Lawrenceville, NJ, before that Boston, before that
Austin, before that Oberlin
College, before that hometown NJ, before that NYC for a day or so after
being born there. I hope to stay in Philly at least till the end of the
decade, though that may be stretching it?
Some recent publication news:
A slip of a story involving virtual baseball, Amon Ra, and Thorstein Veblen
will appear in a beautiful lit journal called Canteen.
A short tale will appear in an anthology of stuff inspired by the Bush
Years, edited by David Barringer,
from So New Publishing.
A 1000-word tale about unicorn
porn will appear in the second volume of sexy stories from Better
Non Sequitur.
A short bit about reading War & Peace in Philadelphia is in
Coudal Partner's Field-Tested
Books for 2008.
An overwritten excursion called Kneeless
is on Steve Finbow's new online lit site mag blog thing called Red Peter.
Some not-as-recent publication news:
An essay about Barry Bonds once published in Barrelhouse
is also in the 2007 Best
American Non-Required Reading.
A semi-illustrated story called Carry
Me Father No More is online at AGNI, published by Boston University.
Another story appeared in the fall print edition of The
Black Warrior Review, published by the University of Alabama.
In 1997/8/9, I wrote a book called Incidents
of Egotourism in the Temporary World that was online for a while before
it was published in May 2004 by Better
Non Sequitur. Here's a
pdf of the book with all the full-color art and covers and stuff --
surprise your friends and send it to them as a really cheap gift to celebrate
the first day of spring.
In August 1999, I started a site called Eyeshot
-- here's a little bit about the ridiculously long history
of the site.
Some not-recent publication news: An essay about being half-Jewish appeared
in an anthology called Half/Life:
Jew-ish Tales from Interfaith Homes, that came out in April 2006 from
Soft
Skull Press. A story about being peed upon by a traumatized girl appeared
in an anthology called The
Encyclopedia of Exes, that came out in Fall 2005 from Three Rivers/Crown.
A story a while back was published in Pindeldyboz
#5 about a Michael Jackson impersonator, and another story in Boom
#1 about sucking armpit, and a story in Duck
& Herring Co. #1 about geriatric delusions and curveballs, and
a story about the disappearance of Mt. Rainier in Better
Non Sequitur's recent anthology. There was also a book recommendation
for (last summer's) Coudal
Partners' 2006 Field-Tested Books summer reading thing. Other stuff,
too?
Below is an excerpted list of of links to things I've written, reformatted
to remind you somewhat of the old NYT.com layout
