John M. Keller
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John M. Keller (born July 15, 1979) is an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and director.
Much of his fiction is set in Latin America, but he has also written stories that take place in the United States, France, Russia, Tunisia, Cambodia and beyond.[1]
Career
He attended high school in El Paso, Texas, across the border from Juárez, Mexico, where the novel Know Your Baker is set.[1] In alternating narratives, the book recounts the mysterious disappearance of a famous painter alongside a fictionalized account of the femicide in Ciudad Juárez that began in 1993.[2] The Box and the Briefcase, the Moleque and the Old Man, and the First Coming of the Second Son of God, a dystopian novel set in a near-future Brazil where plastic surgery is as “de rigueur as cosmetics”[3][4], was followed by Abracadabrantesque in 2015[5] and Johnny Allan in 2019, a novel about a twentysomething who, after dropping and breaking his cell phone, decides not to replace it, challenging him to live as people did before the 21st century.[6][7]
As a director and screenwriter, his short film, Trop c’est trop, set in the French Pyrenees, revolves around a television journalist who quits her job while live on air and then joins a strange workshop where people learn to protest.[8][9] This was followed by The White Stuff, which premiered at the Chelsea Film Festival in New York in October 2022[10][11]; and Brutta Figura, co-directed with Giorgio Arcelli Fontana and starring Arcelli alongside Academy Award-winning director and screenwriter James Ivory, the latter in his first appearance as an actor on screen, at the age of 93.[12][13]
Keller has taught writing at Kingsborough Community College at the City University of New York; St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai; the Universidad de Montevideo in Uruguay and the Universidad de las Américas Puebla in Mexico.[14]
Books
- A Bald Man With No Hair (2012)
- Know Your Baker (2013)
- Abracadabrantesque (2015)
- Johnny Allan (2019)
Films
- Trop, c’est trop (I’ve Had Enough) (2019)
- The White Stuff (2022)
- Brutta Figura (2023)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Parrish, Jon (2013-01-22). "Roll Interviews the Author John M. Keller | Roll Online". Retrieved 2023-06-26.
- ↑ "John M. Keller". Dr. Cicero Books. 2018-09-27. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
- ↑ "The Box and the Briefcase, the Moleque and the Old Man and the First Coming of the Second Son of God by John M. Keller". World Literature Today. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
- ↑ "An International Speculative Fiction Reading List, by The Editors of WLT". World Literature Today. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
- ↑ "Abracadabrantesque | WorldCat.org". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
- ↑ "JOHNNY ALLAN". www.spdbooks.org. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
- ↑ "Fiction Bestsellers May/June 2019 : Small Press Distribution". www.spdbooks.org. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
- ↑ Keller, John M., Trop c'est trop (Short), Eléa Clair, Julien Jacob, Olivia Gotanègre, Six and Midnight Films, retrieved 2023-06-26
- ↑ "Antichan de Frontignes. Une semaine de tournage au cœur du village". ladepeche.fr (in français). Retrieved 2023-06-26.
- ↑ "WOMEN BEHIND THE LENS #1". Retrieved 2023-06-26.
- ↑ "Chelsea Film Festival (2022)". IMDb. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
- ↑ "Quel colpo della strega che ha fatto debuttare James Ivory come attore". la Repubblica (in italiano). 2023-04-24. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
- ↑ Redazione (2023-06-29). "James Ivory attore debuttante a 93 anni grazie a un regista italiano". Il Corriere Nazionale (in italiano). Retrieved 2023-06-26.
- ↑ "Profile". www.kbcc.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2023-06-26.
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