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Duncan Birmingham

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Born

Boston, The United States

Website

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Fiction, Humor and Comedy

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Duncan Birmingham is a writer, TV producer and filmmaker in Los Angeles.

He started his career writing for The Weekly World News ("the world's most outrageous tabloid") and later sold numerous screenplays including "Swingles" which was featured on The Black List and sold to Paramount where Cameron Diaz became attached.

He helped create the IFC series Maron (with Marc Maron) and was a writer and executive producer on the show as well as a writer and co-executive producer on the Jonathan Ames show Blunt Talk on Starz. He's written on a variety of other series including HBO’s David Fincher project Videosyncrazy and sold his own original shows including his comedy Foodies to AMC.

His fiction has appeared in literary magazines including Brooklyn ...more

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Average rating: 3.84 · 100 ratings · 30 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Cult in My Garage 4.41 avg rating — 44 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
	Pets Who Want to Kill Themselves: Featuring Over 150 Suicidal Pets! 3.39 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2009 — 6 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

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Surprised by all these lackluster reviews. I couldn't put this book down and the ending felt like a gut punch. Beautiful elliptical prose dissecting how money and creature comforts corrupt even the most progressive and educated. ...more
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