The Richard Farrell NC Archive Page
Richard Farrell is the Creative Non-Fiction Editor at upstreet and a Senior Editor at Numéro Cinq (in fact, he is one of the original group of Vermont College of Fine Arts students who helped found the site). A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, he has worked as a high school teacher, a defense contractor, and as a Navy pilot. He is a graduate from the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. He is currently at work on a collection of short stories. His work, including memoir, craft essays, interviews, and book reviews, has published at Hunger Mountain and Numéro Cinq. He lives in San Diego.
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Nonfiction:
About Face: On Class Reunions and Reading Salter
Will, Kate & Osama: Jean Baudrillard on Royal Weddings and the Death of bin Laden
Deforming Form: Outlier Short Stories and How They Work
What It’s Like Living Here [San Diego]
Non-Commencement Commencement Address, January, 2011
Unintentional Pugilism: A Memoir
Invitation to a Re-shredding: The Top 10 Things I Learned This Semester
Degenerates, Monks and Writers
Book Reviews:
Laundromats, Lucky Charms and the Labors of Herakles | Review of Anne Carson’s Red Doc>
Ship of Fools: Review of A Thousand Morons by Quim Monzo
Unmeasured Depths: A Review of Steven Heigthon’s The Dead Are More Visible
Desperate Wagers: Review of Scars by Juan José Saer
In Search of the Author, Barthes Be Damned: Review of The Selected Stories of Mercé Rodoreda
Elegant Uncertainty: Review of Juan Jose Saer’s novel The Sixty-Five Years of Washington
Interviews:
Bushwacked by Inspiration: An Interview with Steven Heighton
Capturing the Equivalences: Interview With Translator Steve Dolph
Manufacturing Dreams: An Interview with Anthony Doerr
Double Exposure: An Interview with Darin Strauss
Making the Little Monsters Walk: Interview with Brad Watson