Richard Melo (born August 10, 1968) is an American author and book reviewer. His debut novel, Jokerman 8, was published in 2004.
Richard Melo was born in San Francisco, California and attended the San Francisco State University. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon.
As a book critic, since 2004, Melo has reviewed books by Thomas Pynchon, William Vollmann, Colson Whitehead, and Tom Robbins, among others. Melo is a member of the National Book Cri...
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Richard Melo (born August 10, 1968) is an American author and book reviewer. His debut novel, Jokerman 8, was published in 2004.
Richard Melo was born in San Francisco, California and attended the San Francisco State University. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon.
As a book critic, since 2004, Melo has reviewed books by Thomas Pynchon, William Vollmann, Colson Whitehead, and Tom Robbins, among others. Melo is a member of the National Book Critics Circle.
His fiction has appeared in Willamette Week and Gobshite Quarterly. He began his career as a playwright with two productions appearing on the Mt. Hood Community College stage in the early 1990s. He is a graduate of the Creative Writing program at San Francisco State University.
His novel, Jokerman 8 (Soft Skull Press, 2004), follows the lives of several San Francisco State University college students as they flirt with the radical environmental movement and one another. Set in the late 80s and early 90s, it follows the members of...
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