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Hometown: Reno
Industry: Writing
Role: Writer
Specialization: Fiction
 
 
 
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About Me  
 
My name's Ben Garrido. I'm a Korea-bound journalist and aspiring snob who loves Hemmingway and hates sentimentalism. I just finished my first book, The Cult of Benedict Arnold this year. My second, The Blackguard, should be done early next year. Drop me an email if you want to talk about books, botulism, or priapisms.
 
Interests
 
Activities: Speaking bluntly about touchy subjects, automobile racing, hiking over tall mountains, inflicting sports injuries on my poor body, advocating unpopular causes, independent thinking, eating sushi, cooking pork and torturing partly rotten leaves to death in boiling water.
 
Favorite Music: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tool/A Perfect Circle, Zepplin, BB King, Hendrix, The Mars Volta and a local band called Greyscale.
 
Favorite TV Shows: Mythbusters
 
Favorite Movies: American History X, The Kingdom, No Country for Old Men, There Will be Blood, Little Miss Sunshine, Superbad, The Hannibal Lecter Trilogy, Redemption, Donnie Darko, The Departed, Lucky Number Sleven etc.
 
Favorite Books: Benediction by Lu Xun, For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemmingway, East of Eden by Steinbeck, The Road by McCarthy, The Crying of Lot 49 by Pynchon, The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty, The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid, Farenheit 451 by Bradbury, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Othello by that Shakespeare fellow and Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes.
 
Influences: Paul Beatty, David Gessner, Earnest Hemmingway, the as of yet unpublished Jeff Walden, Carlos Fuentes and the Coen Brothers.
 
 
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AngelaLao - 01/01/2009
Happy New year 2009 and best wishes for you!! ^o^ Angela Lao