James Robison (author)

412:, and divorce. Or hurricane science, a niece, and physics. If I have three large thoughts, intuitions or detections about three varied things, I’ll launch a story." Later in the interview, he said, "Before you can be a writer you must make it new and the only way to do that is to run a harrowing, fearless, ruthless self audit. A psychological, emotional, moral inventory. You must know who you are, without delusions or self-deception, and what you find is apt to scare the spit out of you. But that is the truth you must accept and the truth from which you will construct every sentence." 384:, in which he discussed aesthetics: "I saw a Nova-like show about dark matter, how scientists know that it exists because some light waves firing to earth bend and curve all around a precisely shaped nothingness. I thought, boy howdy, this is how so much art, plastic or literary, from the 20th and 21st Century behaves: Its true content is what it refuses to describe explicitly, but the shape of its meaning may be precisely limned by implication." Contributing to a piece posted in 228: 388:, he wrote: "For years, decades, I tried to teach the students to do lightning strike stuff. Bang. Blinding light. Whiff of burnt earth. Then go away and do not worry about anything because you have not done the great damage of boring anybody. It was years of this. NOW many are doing it and NOW, 25, 30 years later, it's good that they are and I am happy to see such stuff and even that its name is FLASH fiction." 462: 212:. After Brown, he traveled to Baltimore and Boston. In 1988, he began teaching creative writing along with his former wife, the author Mary Robison, at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program, where he would spend much of the next decade. Since leaving Houston, he has taught at various universities, including as Visiting Writer at 38: 192:, in 1946. His father was a graphic artist and freelance illustrator in Columbus, Ohio. Robison attended Worthington High School from 1960-1964. He attended Ohio State University. After working for several years as a commercial artist, he continued his education, and received an MFA from 1425: 399:

is a test track and display room for works in process and as a writer, your readers there make up a community of trusted and truthful equals, eerily reliable so far. Writing into a void is miserable, like telling jokes to a wall.

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said "The world through James Robison's eyes is such a dazzling show of delicacy and precision that heartbreak turns on the choice of a verb. His dialogue is never less than perfect. Radiant, energetic, and above all, touching."

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and elsewhere. In 2012 he won a second Pushcart Prize for his short story "I See Men Like Trees, Walking" which will be included in the Pushcart 2013 Anthology.

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said, "His ear is astounding, as is his narrative power, his ability to deal shocks and psychological truths, and his sheer grasp of the form."

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provides a round-the-clock, faithfully attentive audience. It's a post post graduate-level workshop." In an interview with Meg Pokrass at

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wrote "his stories are among the funniest, profoundest, and most exactingly written of any appearing in print."

1994: 1979: 1798: 1517: 257: 227: 2431: 2039: 316: 205: 150:(born October 11, 1946) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet and screenwriter. The author of 173: 2205: 1738: 1163: 2426: 2024: 1547: 2069: 1555: 1325: 935: 324: 1950: 1615: 268: 1903: 2386: 2319: 2009: 1937: 1623: 1570: 775: 634: 546: 508: 189: 172:. He has held teaching posts at numerous universities across the United States, including the 55: 1783: 1585: 1376:(New York: Summit Books: Distributed by Simon & Schuster, 1985): author biographical note 304: 193: 2251: 1873: 1600: 1467: 2159: 1350: 1332: 1314: 312: 2373: 2391: 2285: 2189: 2099: 1724: 1695: 1273:"James Robison: 'Envy'" Reading and Interview with Robert Stewart and Rebekah Presson. 616: 446: 440: 434: 165: 160: 109: 104: 1709: 2400: 2129: 627: 197: 2114: 1768: 1532: 684: 1307: 665: 336:

Since 2010, Robison has again begun to publish extensively, with work appearing in

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Robison's first publications were in literary journals, including eight stories in

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Robison, James (2013). "I see men like trees, walking". In Henderson, Bill (ed.).

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