Residence Los Angeles, CA Role Novelist Name James Greer | Website jamesgreer.net Years active 1991-present | |
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Born 1971 Boston, MA Occupation Novelist, screenwriter, musician, critic Albums Alien Lanes, Box, Tonics & Twisted Chasers Music group Guided by Voices (1994 – 1996) Movies The Spy Next Door, Just My Luck, Larry the Cable Guy: Health In | ||
A Celebration of Akashic Books (3/3)
James Greer is an American novelist, screenwriter, musician, and critic, born in Portland, Maine in 1971 . He lives in Los Angeles.
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- A Celebration of Akashic Books 33
- Career as a musiciancritic
- Career as a novelistauthor
- Career as a screenwriter
- References
Career as a musician/critic
Greer was Senior Editor and Senior Writer at Spin magazine in NYC in the early 90s.
He wrote and played on the song "Trendspotter Acrobat" on the album Sunfish Holy Breakfast by Guided By Voices.
Greer started a band in 2012 with French musician Lola G. called DTCV. In April 2016 the band released its fourth studio album, entitled Confusion Moderne, on Xemu Records. Later that year Steven Soderbergh directed his first music video for the band's song "Histoire seule," and the band continues to record and tour prolifically.
Career as a novelist/author
Greer has published two novels, Artificial Light (Little House on the Bowery/Akashic, 2006) and The Failure (Akashic, 2010). Artificial Light won a California Book Award Silver Medal for First Fiction. Noted American novelist Dennis Cooper has written about Greer's latest novel that "James Greer, one of the nimblest and most multilayered American fiction writers, has, with his latest novel The Failure, pulled off a sublime and shivery-smooth literary hat-trick-cum-emotional-gotcha. I defy anyone to come up with an equation to explain how this book's first impression as a ridiculously clever, funny crime story can gradually disclose a metanovel built from far more encyclopedic scratch only to reveal upon its conclusion a central, overriding thought so heartfelt literally it trembles your lower lip. This is one stunning piece of work."
In 2013 Greer released his first book of short fiction, titled Everything Flows, via Curbside Splendor. Publisher Weekly said of the book "Halfway between the mind of God and a vivid dream, Everything Flows is proof that there remain new places to go, both on paper and in the known universe."
Career as a screenwriter
Greer has written or co-written several movies, including Max Keeble's Big Move (Disney, 2001), Just My Luck (20th Century Fox, 2006) starring Lindsay Lohan, the Jackie Chan vehicle The Spy Next Door (Lion's Gate, 2010) and the forthcoming Unsane directed by Steven Soderbergh starring Claire Foy and Juno Temple.