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About J. R. Angelella

J. R. Angelella is the author of the novel Zombie (Soho Press) as well as a forthcoming, Southern Gothic, supernatural YA series (Sourcebooks/Teen Fire) co-written with his wife, the writer Kate Angelella. His short fiction has appeared in numerous journals, most recently in Fifth Wednesday Journal, Sou’wester, The Coachella Review, JMWW, Plot with Guns and The Collagist. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Literature from Bennington College and teaches at the Gotham Writers’ Workshop in New York City. For more info, check out his website: www.jrangelella.com; or follow him on twitter: @jrangelella.

Advanced Zombie Praise

Team Zombie received some incredible book blurbs from some zombie-rific folks recently. From Matthew Quick, author of The Silver Linings Playbook, (also a forthcoming film adapted and directed by David O. Russell, starring Bradley Cooper, Robert DeNiro, Julia Stiles, Chris … Continue reading

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Book List

This year, oh this year, I’ve decided to keep a blog list of every book that I read and include my favorite quotes. When trying to think back on the books that I read in 2011, I had an embarrassingly … Continue reading

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Last New Year Ending

I like endings, but this isn’t how I want to begin. It’s quiet tonight in this apartment in Brooklyn. Our upstairs neighbors have gone out, to celebrate I’m sure. The street is lined with cars, everyone parked and in for … Continue reading

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Literary Hide-and-Seek with Terrorist Errors

There is a redundancy in the process of book publishing that can make one feel like they are loosing their grip on sanity, or in this case that the damned zombies will never stop coming. If I were to count … Continue reading

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Paragraph Nights

My cousin, Dominic, is a musician. He lives in Philly and teaches music to folks who want to learn to rock like him. Since I’ve known him he’s been in a bazillion and four bands, each successively better than the … Continue reading

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Precious Zombie Darlings

During the many final (writing) days of Zombie, I very often found myself procrastinating, as one tends to do when faced with impossible doom, which is one way to say that I had a very unremarkable and reasonable deadline. Like … Continue reading

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Box of Zombies

Yesterday was a day ten years in the making, long awaited , to say the least. The Advance Reader Copies (ARCs) of my debut novel, Zombie, finally arrived. I swung by the new digs at Soho Press and met up … Continue reading

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Brevity in Night of the Living Dead Bunnies

One of my favorite movies of all time is the zombie apocalypse classic Night of the Living Dead directed by George A. Romero. It was a huge influence on me in my youth, a simple yet terrifying horror film without … Continue reading

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dominate

A swirl of new and exciting things have taken shape over the past several weeks and I have made a renewed commitment to keep posts current here, or at least more current than my lame latest attempts. For this post, … Continue reading

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Twenty Ten to Twenty Eleven

It’s finally official–Twenty Ten is dead. It was a year of finality, some happy, some sad. It was the year that Thanksgiving was marred by an insane neighbor attempting to fight me for dragging (imaginary) furniture across the floor. It … Continue reading

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