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He attended the University of Iowa from 1983 to 1990, both as an undergrad and in the Iowa Writers" Workshop.
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The Whistling Song: A Novel (Norton Paperback Fiction)
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“Writing like a possessed angel, first-novelist Beachy dreams up the adventures of a male Alice who encounters a 1980s America every bit as darkly bizarre and hilarious as Lewis Carroll’s Victorian wonderland…. A hypnotic, unshakable, painfully funny vision of America by a word-drunk writer.” ―Kirkus Reviews (starred) In this electric on-the-road novel, orphan-hero Matt hitchhikes across the surreal landscape of America in the ‘80s. Searching for the lost bliss of childhood he falls in with―and longs for―the dangerously beautiful but amoral Jimmy, a fellow orphan. As they crisscross the country, encountering homeless rock stars, suicidal teenagers, Jesus freaks, and other souls on the edge, Matt moves toward adulthood and his own sexual identity. Stephen Beachy, awarded a James Michener Grant from the Iowa Writers Workshop, now lives in San Francisco and is at work on another novel.
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boneyard
( In this unusual collaborative novel,” Jake Yoder, a pr...)
In this unusual collaborative novel,” Jake Yoder, a precocious boy caught between Amish culture and the modern world, sits in his middle-school classroom writing stories at the behest of a stern but charismatic teacher. Jake's stories feature children who are crushed, imprisoned, and distorted, and yet somehow flailing around with a kind of bedazzled awe, trying to find a way out. His characters wander through Amish farms, one-room schoolhouses, South American plains, mental institutions, exotic cities, and prisons; his sentences seem constructed to the beat of an obsessive internal rhythm, and his prose is often haunting and beautiful. The strange logic and disturbing shifts in Jake’s tales reveal a young boy processing intense emotional experiences in the wake of his mother's suicide and his own proximity to the schoolroom shootings at Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, in 2006. Jake imagines fantastic journeys, magical transformations, and rock stardom as alternatives, it seems, to his own grim reality and the limitations of his life among the Amish.
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Stephen Beachy
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During this period he also traveled extensively in the United States and Latin America, sometimes by motorcycle and sometimes hitchhiking, experiences which influenced his first novel, The Whistling Song. The Whistling Song was published by West. West. Norton with cover illustrations by Curt Kirkwood in 1991 and his second novel, Distortion, by Harrington Park Press, in 2000. lieutenant was reprinted in December 2010 by Rebel Satori Press.
Two novellas, Some Phantom and Number Time Flat were published in 2006 by Suspect Thoughts Press and have been described as a cross between The Turn of the Screw and Herk Harvey"s Carnival of Souls.
Robert Gluck said, "Stephen Beachy is a visionary. In these twin novellas, he explores madness and crime with the nocturnal lyricism of empty time and space." The novellas were republished in 2013 by Verse Chorus Press.
His novel boneyard, was published by Verse Chorus Press in 2011. Beachy has said his influences for that work include the Brothers Grimm, Agota Kristof, Kathy Acker, and the many multibiographies written by authors with Multiple Personality Disorder.
Beachy"s fiction has also been published in BOMB, Chicago Review, Blithe House Quarterly, SHADE, and various anthologies.
His nonfiction publications include an essay God"s Radar Screen in the anthology Love, Castro Street. He has written literary and film criticism for the San Francisco Bay Guardian. In October, 2005, he published an article in New York Magazine, exposing the writer JT LeRoy as the concoction of a woman named Laura Albert, with the help of her family members.
From 1995 to 1996, he taught for WritersCorps in San Francisco.
Since 1999 Beachy has taught in the Master of Fine Arts Program at the University of San Francisco. He is the Prose Editor of the literary journal Your Impossible Voice, which has featured the work of Jessica Hagedorn, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Stacey Levine, and Daniel Borzutzky, among others
Beachy is also a second cousin of biologist Philip Beachy and historian Robert Beachy.
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( In this unusual collaborative novel,” Jake Yoder, a pr...)
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The Whistling Song: A Novel (Norton Paperback Fiction)
( “Writing like a possessed angel, first-novelist Beachy ...)
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