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Katie Arnoldi
Katie Arnoldi grew up in Southern California where she still lives with her husband, artist Charles Arnoldi, and their two children.Her first novel, Chemical Pink, was published by Forge Books in 2001. Newline Cinema optioned the book and Katie was hired to write the screenplay by producers Art Linson and David Fincher. In the fall of 2007 producer Ted Field took over the project and Chemical Pink is currently in development with his company.
Overlook Press published Katie’s second novel, The Wentworths, in March, 2008. For more information visit: www.katiearnoldi.com
Kris Saknussemm
Saknussemm is a media consultant, visual artist and leader of a musical arts collective called Clamon. ZANESVILLE, his first novel was published to critical acclaim by Villard Books in 2005. His novella “It’s Always Ourselves We Find in the Sea” was a Semi-Finalist in the William Faulkner Society’s Creative Writing Competition in 2006. A second novel is due for publication by Random House. His third and highly controversial novel, PRIVATE MIDNIGHT will be published by Overlook Press in Spring ‘09, having been aggressively rejected by the New York establishment.He has been a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony and an Alumni Reader at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and is a member of the SFWA.
For more information visit these websites.
http://www.saknussemm.com
http://www.myspace.com/saknussemm
What People Said About Chemical Pink
Joan Didion“Chemical Pink is a dazzling first novel-entirely original, dizzyingly controlled, all ice-cool momentum on the surface and all shock below.”
Booklist
“Arnoldi’s searing tale, a true binge read, boldly dramatizes the consequences of narcissism and misplaced ambition.”
What People Said About Zanesville
The Austin Chronicle
“Kris Saknussemm has created the most original novel of the year.”
Los Angeles City Beat
“A darkly comic and completely unforgettable tale.”
What We’re Reading
Rave reviews for Katie’s new novel THE WENTWORTHS!!!!!!!!
MENTAL RADIO by Upton Sinclair
SIRIUS: A CHAIN OF PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE VIRTUES OF TAR WATER by Bishop Berkeley
What We’re Listening To
Ptah Brown - Blues Live in Italy
Irwin Chusid’s recommendations on “Lost Calypso Classics!”
Words to Think About
“If you’re not working on your dream, you’re working on someone else’s.”
-Ptah Brown
“Truth itself is a rhetorical term. ‘I am searching for truth.’ Oh, boy, what a great person.”
-Paul Feyerabend
“Not a day goes by that we do not dream of a safe rebellion against our livelihood.”
-Yukio Mishima