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Adam Klein’s critical essays and arts and literary reviews have been published in: Bookforum (2024); Subtropics (2022); Evergreen Review and Hobart (2021); Bright Lights Film Journal (2020); Brooklyn Rail (2015); Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts (2006-14); Essays & Fictions (2013); HuffPost (2012); openDemocracy (2012); The New York Times (2012); PopMatters (2012); PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (M.I.T. Press, 2011); and the San Francisco Bay Guardian (1997-2006), as well as exhibition catalogues, monographs, and artist books.

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PRÉCIS

Adam Klein is an educator, novelist, singer/songwriter, and a recipient of the Academy of American Poets Award. From 2005-17 he was the lyricist and lead vocalist for the activist art rock project The Size Queens. Since 2014 he has served as an advisor to The Jerome Project. More recently he has published essays in Bookforum; Subtropics; Evergreen Review; Hobart; and Bright Lights Film Journal. He is currently preparing his new novel as well as a biography of the poet Thomas Avena for publication. He is represented by PJ Mark of Janklow & Nesbit.

SHORT FICTION

Adam Klein’s short form writing has been anthologized in California Prose Directory 2016: New Writing from the Golden State (Sarah LaBrie, editor, Outpost19, 2016); Your Impossible Voice (Issue 9, Fall 2015); PANK (October 3, 2014); Educe (Issue 5, Spring 2014); Fiction International (Issue 46, Fall 2013); Fourteen Hills (Volume 18.1, January 2012); Electric Literature (November 18, 2011); Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts (Vol. 36, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2009); Vital Signs (Richard Canning, editor, Carroll & Graf, 2007); Pills, Thrills, Chills and Heartache: Adventures in the First Person (Clint Catalyst and Michelle Tea, editors, Alyson Books, 2004); SMTWTFS (Marco Breuer, editor, Roth Horowitz Press, 2002); Gay Travels: A Literary Companion (Lucy Jane Bledsoe, editor, Whereabouts Press, 1998); The James White Review (Vol.14: No.2, Spring/Summer 1997); Best American Gay Fiction 1996 (Brian Bouldrey, editor, Little Brown and Co., 1996); Compound Fracture (Robert Flynt, editor, Twin Palms Press, 1996); BOMB (Issue 52, Summer 1995); Re/Mapping the Occident (Bryan Joachim Malessa and John Jason Mitchell, editors, University of California Press, 1995); Men on Men 5 (David Bergman, editor, Plume, 1994—nominated for the Lambda Literary Award for Fiction Anthologies); and The Bastard Review (Thomas Avena, editor, Bay Area Center for Art & Technology, 1992). His short story “A Hardship Post,” published in Fourteen Hills, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2012.

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THE MEDICINE BURNS

© 2014 rEprint: Dzanc Books
© 1995 High Risk/Serpent’s Tail

“HARROWING, AND YET EXQUISITE, UNFLINCHING, AND COMPELLING. “

KIRKUS REVIEWS

“THE SHORT STORIES IN THIS DEBUT COLLECTION DESCRIBE A COMING TO GRIPS WITH HUMAN FRAILTY. KLEIN'S EVOCATION OF BOTH AN INDIVIDUAL AND A CULTURE MATURING AND ENTERING A FUNEREAL PHASE IS STRONG, AND HIS DIRECT, ECONOMICAL LANGUAGE HAMMERS THESE STORIES HOME WITH A SINGLE STROKE.”

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

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THE GIFTS OF THE STATE

© 2013 Dzanc Books
with a foreword by Eliza Griswold

“ALTERNATELY TERRIFYING AND HEARTBREAKING, THESE STORIES OF LOVE AND LOSS TRANSCEND THE DEADENING NEWS CYCLE AND GIVE A VOICE TO A LOST GENERATION. READ THEM. ”

ELIZABETH BULL, LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS

Khalid Ahmad Atif, “The Sea Floor,” Guernica Magazine, August 2013
Abdul Shakoor Jawad, “The Hasher,” Witness Magazine, April 2013

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TINY LADIES

© 2014 rEprint: Dzanc Books
© 2003 Serpent's Tail

“IN MUTED AND ALMOST MUSICAL PROSE, EERILY SUSPENSEFUL BUT MIRACULOUSLY LACKING IN MELODRAMA, ADAM KLEIN'S NOVEL CHARTS THE LIFE OF A STRANGELY SYMPATHETIC CHARACTER ATTEMPTING TO SURVIVE HERSELF AND HER CIRCUMSTANCES. HER NEGOTIATION OF HER DISASTROUS LIFE AND DYSFUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS IS THE SUBJECT OF THIS ENGROSSING AND BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN BOOK.”

RANTI WILLIAMS, THE OBSERVER BOOKS

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LIFE SENTENCES

© 1994 Mercury House
Thomas Avena, Editor
Recipient of the 1995 American Book Award


Contributors: Tory Dent; William Dickey; Michael Flanagan; Diamanda Galás; Nan Goldin; Thom Gunn; Essex Hemphill; Bo Huston; Adam Klein; Tony Kushner; Marlon Riggs; Severe Sarduy; Edmund White; and David Wojnarowicz.

“MUCH OF THE BOOK'S LANGUAGE, LIKE THE EXPERIENCES PORTRAYED, IS BRUTAL AND GRAPHIC; YET MANY PIECES SEAR WITH ELEGANCE IN THE FACE OF DEATH.”

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

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JEROME: AFTER THE PAGEANT

© 1996 Bastard Books/D.A.P.
Edited by Thomas Avena and Adam Klein
Foreword by Klaus Kertess / Design by Rex Ray

“KLEIN AND AVENA ARE TO BE PRAISED FOR BREATHING NEW LIFE INTO THE ART OF JEROME. THEIR BOOK IS A TREASURE.”

TERRY BESWICK, BAY AREA REPORTER

“FOR JEROME CAJA, PAINTING WELL WAS THE BEST REVENGE. HIS SWEETLY CLAUSTROPHOBIC VISIONS OF THE HELLISHNESS AND HOLINESS OF ORDINARY EXISTENCE, THEIR WONDROUS AND EMBARRASSING HONESTY, ARE GIVEN RAPT OBSERVANCE IN AVENA AND KLEIN’S CLEAR-EYED PROSE.”

CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT, LOS ANGELES TIMES

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TO THE COUNTRY

The Size Queens and Wally Sound, Producers
© 2015 Comfort Bringers Publishing, BMI

Edited and with a foreword by Adam Klein, The Size Queens’ seventh record is embedded in this multimedia short story collection. Contributors include: Rae Bryant; Maria Bustillos; Brian Evenson; Paul Kingsnorth; J. Robert Lennon; Rick Moody; Jim Shepard; Melanie Rae Thon; Lynne Tillman; and Joy Williams.

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“PART LO-FI ROCK ALBUM, PART EBOOK, AND PART ROADSIDE ATTRACTION SOUVENIR-HAUL, THIS HYBRID WORK RESISTS EASY DESCRIPTION OR PINNING DOWN, BUT IS CORRESPONDINGLY EASY TO GET LOST IN, A MOST PLEASURABLE SET OF RABBIT HOLES.”

TIM HORVATH, LARGEHEARTED BOY

CONSUMPTION WORK: TAMMY, CYBERTARIAT, AT THE ARAL SEA

The Size Queens and Wally Sound, Producers
Released: November 6, 2012
Premiered on Johns Hopkins University’s The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review

Conceived as an Adam Curtis-inspired documentary fever dream, this 50-minute movie encompasses the entirety of The Size Queens’ fifth record and was released exclusively in this format.

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PRÉCIS
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THE GIFTS OF THE STATE
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