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Hal Niedzviecki Writer of Fiction and Non-Fiction Exploring Contemporary Culture

Hal Niedzviecki

Biography Hal Niedzviecki is a writer, culture commentator and editor whose work challenges
preconceptions and confronts readers with the offenses of everyday life. He is the author
of many books including The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors, the novel The Program and the book Hello, I’m Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity. He is the current fiction editor and the founder of Broken Pencil, the magazine of zine culture and the independent arts. He edited the magazine from 1995 to 2002. Once dubbed the “guru of independent/alternative action” by the Toronto Star, Niedzviecki is committed to
exploring the human condition through provocative fiction and non-fiction that charts the media saturated terrain of ever shifting multiple identities at the heart of our fragmenting age.

Upcoming Works

  • The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors (City Lights Books)

Favorite Authors

  • Jose Donoso, ken sparling, derek mccormack, Cormac McCarthy, Juan Goytisolo, Heather O'Neill, Charles Bukowski, james kelman, Flannery O'Connor, grant buday, eden robinson, mark jarman, JG Ballard, Phillip K Dick, William Faulkner, James Joyce, Gordon Lish, Greil Marcus, Charles Willeford, Janet Frame, Lydia Davis, michel houellebecq, william t. vollman, James Gleick, Elyse Friedman, Michel Foucault, James Gleick, W.S. Graham, Haruki Murakami, William Gibson, Kazuo Ishiguro, Emily Schultz, Michael Turner, VS Naipaul, Spalding Gray, David Foster Wallace, Robert Kroetsch, Don Dellilo, Samuel Beckett

Agents

  • Andrew Blauner, Blauner Books
    Bruce Westwood, Westwood Creative Artists

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Publishers

  • City Lights Books, Coach House Books, Random House Canada, Penguin Books Canada

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