Background
Kolm, Ron was born on May 21, 1947 in Pittsburgh. Son of Roger Edward and Martyne (Akerson) Kolm.
(The quintessential short fiction of its time, The Plastic...)
The quintessential short fiction of its time, The Plastic Factory's minimalist surface sits atop a terse inventory of the inner costs of living outside the professional managerial bullet train, looking through the display windows at the swatch-life, emerging with the antithesis of the yuppie-preppy sensibility. Every phrase glistens with the dull sheen of the bog slime rising all around these characters acting out the anomie of the soul in the Reagan era when the American Dream got hijacked from everyone outside that cozy 1% at the top of the food chain. This is the voice of their prey: listen up! Robert Siegle, author of Suburban Ambush: Downtown Writing and the Fiction of Insurgency From the silence of the industrial countryside, Kolm has written an elegy for time wasted through work. The Plastic Factory accumulates its power through attention to detail and process. The botched life of the narrator takes on a certain sad grandeur. Thomas McGonigle, author of Going to Patchogue
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Kolm, Ron was born on May 21, 1947 in Pittsburgh. Son of Roger Edward and Martyne (Akerson) Kolm.
Bachelor, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1970.
Manager St. Marks Bookstore, New York City, 1984-1988, Coliseum Books, New York City, since 1988. Night manager Posman Books Grand Central Station, since 2005. Flow manager Unbearables, New York City., since 1985, archiver Poets House, New York Public Library., Poetry and Rare Books Collection, State University of New York-Buffalo, The Avant Writing Collection, Ohio State University Libraries, Fales Library. and Special Collection, New York University.
(The quintessential short fiction of its time, The Plastic...)
Married Donna Maxine Sterling, September 5, 1984. Children: Daniel, Gregory.