thomas gladysz Wordslinger, bookslinger, literary factotum

About Me

thomas gladysz
San Francisco
Member since: May, 2009
Last login: 07/21/2009
Last update : 07/21/2009

Hometown

Detroit, Michigan

I've worked in bookstores for nearly 25 years. And, I 've worked as a journalist and free-lance writer for longer than that. As an events coordinator, I have set-up, publicized and hosted nearly 1000 author events. (That's how I probably met you.) As a writer, I've had some 500 articles, reviews, and interviews published in various magazines and newspapers. A few of my pieces have ended up in books published by the likes of HarperCollins and the University of Nebraska Press.

I am also the director of the Louise Brooks Society. I'm highly interested (read "obsessed") with the silent film star Louise Brooks. For a manifestation of my interest see www.pandorasbox.com

I like to read. I like doing research. I like organizing information. I like watching old movies. I enjoy music of all kinds. I am a writer, and occasional journalist. I collect books. I am a nerd, and I revel in it.

Louise Brooks, silent film, Denishawn, modernism, skyscraper primitives, surrealism, pulp culture, sci-fi, poetry, geographies of the imagination, the old weird America, middle Europe, old-time radio, vamps, flappers, femmes fatales, bobbed hair, the Jazz Age, time travel

Jorge Luis Borges, Ray Bradbury, Kiara Brinkman, Kevin Brownlow, Stuart Dybek, TS Eliot, Jeffrey Eugenides, F Scott Fitzgerald, Allen Ginsberg, Ernest Hemingway, Franz Kafka, Greil Marcus, China Mieville, Barry Paris, Emil Petaja, Diane Wakoski, Bruno Schulz, Frank Wedekind, Walt Whitman, Thomas Wolfe

Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?, by Marion Meade
Through a Lens Darkly, by Jan Wahl

Undergraduate College/University	Michigan State University, class of
High School	Notre Dame, class of

writers, dreamers, independent thought, libraries, archives, film preservation, the past