Lee Bob Black. Writer. www.LeeBobBlack.com

Lee Bob Black is a writer, co-director of a literacy program for Canteen magazine, and the founder of the International Literary Film Festival. Previously he has worked for BigThink.com and One Story. His writing has appeared in Bookslut, The Faster Times, Tottenville Review, and elsewhere. He's based in Brooklyn and virtually at www.LeeBobBlack.com.

Now I'll switch back to first person. Click the menu links to read some of my stories, interviews, etc. Check me out at Facebook.com/LeeBobBlack, YouTube.com/LeeBobBlack, and Google+. Contact me via LeeGoLit@gmail.com or +1 917 512 5054. Or just continue reading my “Lee's Literary Life: News, Events, and Propaganda.”

2013.

Rating the general fiction and young adult fiction semifinalists of the 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards. (April 17, 2013.)

Self-portraits while reading books. (March 28, 2013.)

Boobs and Boners: A Quantitative Analysis of Steel Panther Lyrics. (March 21, 2013.)

2012.

Canteen magazine interviews with writers: Elliott Holt, Marie-Helene Bertino, Caits Meissner, Tishon, Nathan Larson, and Bill Peters. (December 10, 2012.)

Jay-Z, Barack Obama, Bruce Springsteen, oh and Lee Bob Black. (November 5, 2012.)

Knocking on doors for Barack Obama in Columbus, Ohio. (November 3 and 5, 2012.)

My fiction up in lights: Streetlight magazine publishes my short story "Treeswing." (June 19, 2012.)

Creative Coupledom: I interviewed Joanna Smith Rakoff and Evan Smith Rakoff for Canteen magazine. (February 16, 2012.)

Would you like to interview an artist for Canteen magazine? (February 1, 2012.)

Lee Bob Black reading fiction at KGB Bar in the East Village, NYC. (January 27, 2012.)

2011.

Five stars? One star? Books I read in 2011 that I rated five out of five, or one out of five. (December 31, 2011.)

Interview with artist Shabnam Piryaei for the International Literary Film Festival. (November 30, 2011.)

Interview with artist and filmmaker Sandhya Prabhat for the International Literary Film Festival. (November 29, 2011.)

Interview with poet Manal Alsheikh for the International Literary Film Festival. (November 28, 2011.)

The International Literary Film Festival announces winning films for the 2011 festival. (November 27, 2011.)

Canteen issue seven is out - lit stars do glam. (September 16, 2011.)

Values.com published a flash nonfiction piece of mine, "And My Dad Said Be A Role Model." (March 30, 2011.)

Hemayel Martina, poet of Curaçao. (February 3, 2011.)

2010.

Five stars? One star? Books I read in 2010 that I rated five out of five, or one out of five. (December 31, 2010.)

Tottenville Review published my interview with Justin Taylor. (September 15, 2010.)

Frontier Psychiatrist published my flash fiction, "Racquetball and Morphine." (September 2, 2010.)

Letter to the New York Times regarding David Brooks' op-ed "Nation Building Works." (August 31, 2010.)

The Faster Times published my Amy Braunschweiger interview. (August 5, 2010.)

Calling all emerging writers. (August 2, 2010.)

Canteen issue six is out - dip into it. (August 1, 2010.)

The Faster Times published my Hannah Tinti interview. (May 26, 2010.)

Litterae est rapio and The Hangover. (May 22, 2010.)

Tottenville Review issue 1 clickable now. (May 7, 2010.)

Leeologisms. (April 1, 2010.)

Valerio Rocco Orlando interviews Tara DePorte and Lee Bob Black about love. (March 9, 2010.)

Thwart A Rebellion: a short play. (January 1, 2010.)

Canteen issue five is out - sample it. (January 1, 2010.)

2009.

Five stars? One star? Books I read in 2009 that I rated five out of five, or one out of five. (December 31, 2009.)

Embarrassing poetic video experiments, part 2: Lee reads others' poems. (December 29, 2009.)

Embarrassing poetic video experiments, part 1: Lee reads his poems. (December 29, 2009.)

Litersturtainmnet. (December 9, 2009.)

Bookslut published my Paul Hoffman book review of King's Gambit. (December 4, 2009.)

Jireh Hinton's video of Tara and Lee. (November 10, 2009.)

How Gandhi Are You? Are You Becoming More Or Less Like The Dalai Lama? (August 17, 2009.)

Power Rules Versus Laws of Power: How Greene is Gelb? (August 12, 2009.)

Tango Mano-A-Mano: How Dancing With Other Men Challenged My Heterosexuality. (August 11, 2009.)

A Healthy Dose of Pragmatism. (August 7, 2009.)

Sell My House, Check. Plane Ticket To Africa, Check. But Should I Divorce? (August 5, 2009.)

My Big Think interview with Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. (June 30, 2009.)

My Big Think interview with Dev Patnaik, Jump Associates CEO and author of Wired to Care. (June 24, 2009.)

Canteen and StreetSquash creative writing workshops. (June 5, 2009.)

Nation Sickened by Sight of Happy Young Couple. (May 12, 2009.)

Lee Bob Black's playful bio. (May 12, 2009.)

I interviewed Alberto Ferreras, author of B as in Beauty. (March 30, 2009.)

Canteen and StreetSquash creative writing workshops. (February 13, 2009.)

Canteen issue four is out - browse it. (February 1, 2009.)

2008.

Five stars? One star? Books I read in 2008 that I rated five out of five, or one out of five. (December 31, 2008.)

Barack Obama wins, Brooklyn ignites, Lee Bob Black gives shoulder rides. (November 4, 2008.)

Knocking on doors for Barack Obama in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. (October 4 and 11, 2008.)

Canteen issue three is out - graze on it. (October 1, 2008.)

I'm judging at a Literary Death Match, NYC. (September 27, 2008.)

I'm reading at Opium magazine's "Litstravaganza," NYC. (August 3, 2008.)

Disclaimer, Copyright, and Fair Use Notice. (July 10 2008.)

What are six of my top short story collections? (July 8, 2008.)

Consider submitting to Opium magazine's Network of Writers Experiment. (July 2, 2008.)

The first three chapters of a novel I was working on. (July 1, 2008.)

A fair and honest appraisal of my appearance by the Bumbys. (June 25, 2008.)

Two of my short plays, one about dysfunctionality, one about surviving a tsuname. (April 1, 2008.)

Benjamin Kunkel: I met another one of my Lit Gods. (March 31, 2008.)

My first poetry reading in a few years. My first poetry reading in Brasil. (March 8, 2008.)

2007.

Five stars? One star? Books I read in 2007 that I rated five out of five, or one out of five. (December 31, 2007.)

I interviewed Tyrone Rock. (November 30, 2007.)

Prodigious? Talented? Moi? (November 23, 2007.)

Who are my favorite writers, spoken word artists, and performance poets (so far)? (November 1, 2007.)

Mama Gena and Sister Goddesses and Lee Bob Black. (January 13, 2007.)

2006.

Five stars? One star? Books I read in 2006 that I rated five out of five, or one out of five. (December 31, 2006.)

LeBoBla [sic] does his first NaNoWriMo. (November 30, 2006.)

The Impeachables: About Our Campaign. (August 20, 2006.)

I interviewed author T. M. Rives. (June 12, 2006.)

2005.

Five stars? One star? Books I read in 2005 that I rated five out of five, or one out of five. (December 31, 2005.)

Malcolm Gladwell: I met another one of my Lit Gods. (July 8, 2005.)

Bookslut published my Edwin John Wintle interview. (July 1, 2005.)

I interviewed Bhagavan Das. (May 18, 2005.)

Is all media attention good? (April 17, 2005.)

I interviewed Australian author Max Barry. (February 24, 2005.)

2004.

Five stars? One star? Books I read in 2003 and 2004 that I rated five out of five, or one out of five. (December 31, 2004.)

I interviewed Toby Thompkins, author of The Real Lives Of Strong Black Women. (September 11, 2004.)

Bookslut published my book review of Alex Garland's novel, The Coma. (August 10, 2004.)

Alex Garland: I met another one of my Lit Gods. (June 24, 2004.)

Letter to The Believer magazine. (February 5, 2004.)

2003.

Craig Clevenger: I met another one of my Lit Gods. (October 24, 2003.)

Chuck Palahniuk: I met another one of my Lit Gods. (September 12, 2003.)

I met a literary powerhouse, Dana Bryant. (May 29, 2003.)

Civilians as shields! The audacity! (March 26, 2003.)

Peace Rally, NYC. (March 22, 2003.)

2002.

Five stars? One star? Books I read between 2000 and 2002 that I rated five out of five, or one out of five. (December 31, 2002.)

2000.

Jim Dodge: I met another one of my Lit Gods. (September 9, 2000.)

1999.

Five stars? One star? Books I read in the 1990s that I rated five out of five, or one out of five. (December 31, 1999.)

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