The Richard Farrell NC Archive Page
Richard Farrell is the Non-Fiction Editor at upstreet and a former 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 a Navy pilot. He is a graduate of the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. His work, both fiction and non-fiction, has been published or is forthcoming in Descant, Hunger Mountain, Newfound, Blue Monday, Dig Boston, Contrary, Numéro Cinq, and others. He is currently at work on a collection of short stories and a novel. In 2016, he will be a resident writer at the Ragdale Artist Community in Lake Forest, Illinois. Richard lives with his family in San Diego.
Contact: richardfarrell@old.numerocinqmagazine.com
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Fiction
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Nonfiction
A Boy Falling out of the Sky: Memoir
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
The Life and Work of Alphonse Kauders
Invitation to a Re-shredding: The Top 10 Things I Learned This Semester
Degenerates, Monks and Writers
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Book Reviews
Fever Dreams: Review of R.W. Gray’s Entropic
The Decomposition of Continuous Movement: Review of Juan José Saer’s La Grande
Tin-Penny Miseries and Chickenshit Joys: Review of Lorrie Moore’s Bark
Outside the Known Limit | Review of Victoria Redel’s Make Me Do Things
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
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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
And Make Mine a Double: Interview with Keith Lee Morris
The Confluence of Rivers: Interview With Tammy Greenwood
Change the Weather/Avoid the Dead: Interview with David Shields
When I’m in the Swamps, I Just Need Questions: Interview with R.W. Gray