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Timothy DeLizza

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The United States

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Genre

Magical Realism, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction

Influences

Han Kang Gabriel Garcia Marquez ...more

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March 2017

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Timothy DeLizza grew up in Brooklyn, NY. He lives in Baltimore, MD and works as an energy attorney for the government.

He mostly writes literary fiction with speculative elements, but has been known to write something first then come up with a genre for it afterwards.

His essay "Legally Speaking, Rats Aren't Even Animals" won the 2020 Barry Lopez Nonfiction Prize.

His fiction has recently appeared in the Southwest Review, Another Chicago Magazine, and Grain Magazine. His nonfiction has recently appeared in Salon.com, Earth Island Journal and Undark. He has run the Baltimore-based variety show Drinking Club since 2016. ...more

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Average rating: 3.98 · 47 ratings · 12 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Jerry (from accounting) (A Short Story) 3.91 avg rating — 35 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Lane Anthology: Volume Five (Dark Lane Anthologies Book 5) by Tim Jeffreys (Goodreads Author), L.S. Johnson (Goodreads Author), Louis Rakovich 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bartleby Snopes Issue 15 by Anne Anthony (Goodreads Author), Paul Beckman, Tara Campbell (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Lane Anthology: Volume Six (Dark Lane Anthologies Book 6) by Tim Jeffreys (Goodreads Author), Jeff Meyers, Laura Maria Grierson 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Your Impossible Voice #11 by Laura Legge, Timothy DeLizza (Goodreads Author), Elena V. Molina 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I have a new flash memoir piece up at the Washington Square Review (NYU's MFA litmag). It is about my old bus commute to Midwood high school in the '90s.

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Timothy rated a book liked it Beasts of the Sea by Iida Turpeinen	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Very confidently written and engaging debut. The character of the sea cow is charismatic and fascinating--tragic. Genuinely moved for the beasts during the hunting scenes despite also fully understanding why the shipwrecked sailors felt elation at th ...more
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An uneven collection where some are quite good ("Exhalation" "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom") and some quite bad ("The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate"). Chaing is among the very few sci-fi writers whose style and work would fit in a 1927 cop ...more
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Timothy rated a book it was ok The Loser by Thomas Bernhard	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
There is a very funny book buried under a very insufferable book here. I thought the ending was straight up hilarious and the best part. There is also a story about class thinly buried under a story about genius but that class story is lost in, again ...more
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Rare case where the movie was better, but still a solid and timely book.
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Timothy rated a book it was ok Colin Gets Promoted and Dooms the World by Mark Waddell (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Clever premise, workmanlike execution. What if Hogwarts was run by Wolfram & Hart, but everyone has the emotional intelligence of a cliched teenager. Would work better as straight satire or more gritty, and without a clunky cozy romance subplot.
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