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Duncan Birmingham

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Born

Boston, The United States

Website

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Genre

Fiction, Humor and Comedy

Influences

Lorrie Moore, Elmore Leonard, David Foster Wallace, Richard Yates, TC ...more

Member Since

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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: 3.9 · 107 ratings · 33 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Cult in My Garage 4.44 avg rating — 50 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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Duncan Birmingham rated a book Strange Cures by Rob Zabrecky	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
One of the great unsung Los Angeles books.
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