Jim Knipfel

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Jim Knipfel in his New York apartment, 2006

Jim Knipfel (born June 2, 1965 in Green Bay , Wisconsin ) is an American writer .

Life

He studied at the University of Minnesota and after dropping out , kept himself afloat with various jobs. He now lives in Brooklyn and writes a weekly column for the NEW YORK PRESS .

He suffers from an incurable eye disease ( retinopathia pigmentosa ) that is slowly making him blind .

Works

  • Slackjaw - A Memoir , Tarcher / Putnam, Feb 1999, German Blindfisch , Rowohlt Verlag 2002, ISBN 3498035037
  • Quitting the Nairobi Trio , Tarcher / Putnam, 2000, German Klapsmühle , Rowohlt Verlag 2002, ISBN 3499242699
  • Ruining It for Everybody , Tarcher / Penguin, Feb 2004
  • The Buzzing (a novel), Vintage, March 2003
  • Unplugging Philco (a novel), Simon & Schuster, April 2009, ISBN 1-4165-9284-9
  • These Children Who Come at You with Knives and Other Fairy Tales, Simon & Schuster, June 2010, ISBN 9781439154120

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