Christopher Klim
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Christopher Klim (born September 8, 1962) is an American novelist.
Literary Life
His work has been compared to Dashiell Hammett[1] by Philadelphia Weekly, Carl Hiaasen.[2] by the Times, and John Steinbeck by Robert Gover.[3] Klim said, "[His novel Jesus Lives in Trenton] served as a litmus test, evoking people’s sense of God and religion by the title alone...".[4] Everything Burns is a fictionalized study of pyromania based partly on his experiences as a journalist. His novel The Winners Circle, a satire about the meaning of wealth in America, led The Book Reporter to call him "among the top humor novelists of the day."[5]
In 2005, Klim became the Chairman of the Eric Hoffer Award [6] for books and prose.
From 2007 to 2015, Klim served as the executive editor of Best New Writing [7] which was said to "immediately become a treasured possession” by Walter Cronkite.[8] He was the lead editor in restoring the works of the American writer Eric Hoffer to print[9] as well as editing Robert Gover's later books.
Bibliography
- Jesus Lives in Trenton (2002)
- Everything Burns (2003)
- The Winners Circle (2006)
- Idiot! (2009)
- True Surrealism: Stories (2011)
References
- ↑ Philadelphia Weekly July 10, 2002 article by Katie Haegele
- ↑ Trenton Times, June 2003 by Brad Grois
- ↑ Robert Gover, quoted on original hardcover (Creative Arts Books 2002) from article "Old Times, Modern Writers", December 2001 by Gover
- ↑ The Compulsive Reader interview with Christopher Klim 2004
- ↑ The Book Reporter, http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews2/193343502X.asp
- ↑ The Eric Hoffer Award, http://www.hofferaward.com
- ↑ Best New Writing, http://www.bestnewwriting.com
- ↑ Cronkite's commentary on premiere issue of Best New Writing, Best New Writing 2008.
- ↑ Klim is editor of note on eight Hoffer reprints, including The Ordeal of Change, Truth Imagined, and The Passionate State of Mind.
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