A Small Suffering Meadow on the 
Sheltered Side of the Wind 

Curious friends, countrymen, relatives, coworkers, and other folks who share the name "Lee Klein," I welcome you to a page concocted to organize the residue of one very particular Lee Klein's literary activity -- the gray column to the right (>>) offers links to recent developments. 

(Please realize that this page does not serve this Lee Klein. Also, please realize that this is not a blog. I repeat, not a blog. Just a storehouse of links for entertainment purposes only.) 

My name is Lee Klein. Lee either means "meadow," "dregs," or "the sheltered side from the wind". Klein means "small" in German. My mom's maiden name means "suffering" in Polish. My "Dances With Wolves" name, therefore, is: Small Suffering Meadow on the Sheltered Side of the Wind. ("Dregs" can replace "meadow" when necessary). 

I live in Philadelphia, over by the end of the Italian Market and the cheesesteakeries in South Philly. I moved to Philly from Iowa City, where I learned to write fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where I moved from Brooklyn (Greenpoint), where I lived for four years -- before that Princeton, before that hometown Lawrenceville, New Jersey, before that Boston, before that Austin, before that Oberlin College, before that hometown NJ, before that NYC for a day or so after being born there.

An essay about Barry Bonds once published in Barrelhouse is also in the 2007 Best American Non-Required Reading.

A semi-illustrated story called Carry Me Father No More is online at AGNI, published by Boston University.

Another story appeared in the Fall '07 print edition of The Black Warrior Review, published by the University of Alabama.
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A story involving virtual baseball, Atum Ra, and Thorstein Veblen is in a beautiful lit journal called Canteen.

A short tale is in an anthology of stuff inspired by the Bush Years called "What Happened to Us These Last Couple Years?"

A 1000-word tale about unicorn porn is in See You Next Tuesday, the second volume of sexy stories from Better Non Sequitur.

A short fictional oddity will appear this winter in the second print edition of No Colony.

An overwritten excursion called Kneeless is on a new online lit site mag blog thing called Red Peter.

Here's a collection of links to older publications. Here's an insane short novel called Supersucker. And here's a PDF of a book published in 2004 by Better Non Sequitur. 

Also, I've been posting brief impressions of new and old books.

Other Stuff of Interest (for the Very Interested Only)

An old interview about Eyeshot's origins and the merits of my homestate. A new interview mainly about rejection letters I've sent and posted, and the third of three posts on a blog devoted to rejection about my rejection practices.

Hear me sing/play the Prince song "Kiss". A photo of me reading appeared in a New York Times article that makes no mention of me. This photo from 1998 repeatedly earned a 9.9 on amihotornot.com (sadly, it is now 2008.)

To learn about the semi-literary site known as
Eyeshot's Hindenburg Complex of Infidels & Crusaders

To contact electrically: 
fast and bulbous@eyeshot.net
 

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