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Peter Birk

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Born

in Oakland, CA, The United States

Website

http://dorky.radiofreepirate.org

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Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Influences

James Joyce, Raymond Carver, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Orson ...more

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Peter Birk was born in Oakland, California, but was raised in Decatur, Illinois. He started writing in grade school, and never stopped to look back. He studied fiction writing at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois and at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, where he was privileged to work with Robin Metz, Robert Hellenga, and David Foster Wallace. He emigrated to Iowa, and has worked a variety of odd jobs throughout Iowa City, but he has been writing the entire time, even through the period wherein he claimed he no longer wished to be a writer.

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Purity

by Jonathan Franzen

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The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World

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1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder

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“Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: chaos, construction, creative-process, destruction, writers, writing

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“when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.”
― Why The Lucky Stiff

tags: inspirational, programming

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