Loren Rhoads "Her work is arresting, haunting, unsettling and gorgeous." -- Thomas S. Roche

photo credit: Photograph by Mason Jones.

Author Biography

For ten years, Loren Rhoads was the editor of the cult nonfiction magazine Morbid Curiosity. A collection of her favorite essays from the magazine -- called Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues -- is out from Scribner now.
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Influences

Ray Bradbury, Annie Dillard, Brian Hodge, Dion Fortune, Sherwin Nuland

Favorite Books

Tinker and Pilgrim Creek, A Natural History of the Senses, How We Die, Death to Dust, Something Wicked This Way Comes, American Gods, The Bloody Chamber, Owls Hoot in the Daytime, The Secrets of Dr. Taverner, A Clockwork Orange, The Sheep Look Up

Favorite Authors

Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, Annie Dillard, Sherwin Nuland

What I'm Reading

Butcher Bird by Richard Kadrey

Web Links

Loren Rhoads: Morbid Curiosity at Dark Carnival

Start: 11/01/2009 - 2:00pm

End: 11/01/2009 - 3:00pm

Loren Rhoads reads & discusses Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues. How does a punk zine of true-life confessional horror stories end up on a big New York press?

City:

Berkeley

State:

Location:

Dark Carnival, 3086 Claremont Ave.

Country:

USA