Brian Kiteley
Email me: bkiteley@du.edu
News
I'll be giving a reading with Carol Edelstein in the browsing room at Nielson Library at Smith College at 4 pm Sunday, September 20.
I'm writing a novel set on the island of Crete (and with cameos of the island of Antikythera) during the summer of 1988. I decided to write the book by hand in a beautiful blank book my wife Cynthia bought me in Italy ten years ago. So far (September 15, 2009), I've written about 45,000 words. The rules: no going back; no typing up what I've written until I've finished what feels like a full draft; no large-scale revisions. I've obeyed these rules so far. The novel is from the point of view of a woman, a first for me.
The River Gods has been published in a beautiful edition by FC2.
My book, The 4 A.M. Breakthrough, was published by Writer's Digest Books in January 2009.
Ben Pfeiffer asked some very interesting questions and posted my answers as well on his website, Ask the Writer, in January 2009.
A couple of stories of mine have been published or are about to be published in The Pinch (in the spring of 2008 and the fall of 2009).
I gave a reading and did a master class at Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colorado, February 2008.
Also in February, I did a reading at Colorado State University, with Marilyn Krysl, the author of Dinner with Osama.
I participated in a panel discussion on the novella at the AWP conference in New York in January 2008. My subjects were Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts and Brian Evenson's The Brotherhood of Mutilation. I was very happy to return to West's book, after many years, and delighted to read Evenson's funny, heart-stopping, cutting novella (pun intended), which at the moment is available only in a limited edition chapbook (but it's coming soon, in a book called Fugue State, I believe). I urge all to read both books. It's a crime that Nathanael West (1903-1940) is not better known.
I'm on sabbatical winter and spring quarters of 2008, writing or finishing these two books mentioned below.
My second book of fiction exercises (tentatively titled The 4 A.M. Breakthrough) will be published in the fall of this year (2008) by Writer's Digest Books.
My novel The River Gods will be published in the fall of 2009 by FC2.
My good friend Eli Gottlieb's novel Now You See Him has been published (in January 2008) to rave reviews all over. See the LA Times review here.
I have an essay, "How Language Lives Us: Reading and Writing Historical Fiction," in Steve Earnshaw's book The Creative Writing Handbook.
Esquire recently published a very short story of mine in their Napkin Project. Esquire asked many American fiction writers to write a short story on a napkin. It took me a while to understand what was being asked of me. This link will send you to my story and to a photograph of the actual napkin.
An essay from my travel book in-progress was published in the fall 2006 issue of Divide, published by the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at CU-Boulder.
A story of mine and an interview of me were published in Tarpaulin Sky, in the fall of 2006.
A story of mine was published in a new journal out of the Cranbrook Academy of Art in the fall of 2006.