"Considering how much I love Richard Chiem's writing, and given how its uncanny snare and sweep of life's especially agile, prompt, messed, lithe, sharp, and heartbreaking things leaves me stiffed of summarizing words, I think I'll just nominate his work for immortality."
- Dennis Cooper, author of The Marbled Swarm
"Richard Chiem writes of all the weirdness and ooziness and tenderness of young love, with such lucid specificity. Like some beautiful film from the 70s, but also distinctly now. Because I also love how in this book he documents the tremors of contemporary existence, of living and working in a city, measuring days not in coffee spoons but in cigarettes and Simpsons episodes."
- Kate Zambreno, author of Green Girl and Heroines
- Kate Zambreno, author of Green Girl and Heroines
"Richard Chiem's You Private Person is a bustling prism of a thing, full of passages that actually lead somewhere off of the paper. His words have brains that have bodies that wake you up in the way waking can be the best thing, like into a warm room full of good calm remembered things that feel both like relics and new inside the day. Here rings a wise and bravely sculpted book packed full of stunning thankful color."
3:am magazine // sky up
artifice magazine // 4 // no school five / print
the best of alt lit short stories // how to survive a car accident
cityarts magazine // print september issue // back pockets full of dynamite
corium magazine // 6 // savannah
decomP // reasons why we could not be men in the movie Centurion
detainees // dear linh dinh
dimestories // journal
elimae // cutty
elimae // lifer
everyday genius // publishing genius // leslie cheung jumps off my building closes his eyes and then sings a song we both know and love
the fanzine // king of joy
elimae // cutty
elimae // lifer
everyday genius // publishing genius // leslie cheung jumps off my building closes his eyes and then sings a song we both know and love
the fanzine // king of joy
for every year // 1582 love in the club
housefire // the first time (or someone like me would have a chance in a movie)
kill author // 11 // the same thing we do every night pinky
magic helicopter press // oh no everything is wet now // an e book by Ana C. + Richard Chiem
housefire // the first time (or someone like me would have a chance in a movie)
kill author // 11 // the same thing we do every night pinky
magic helicopter press // oh no everything is wet now // an e book by Ana C. + Richard Chiem
metazen // gmail chat // a mini comic by richard chiem and phillip rex huddleston // featuring richard chiem and phillip rex huddleston and frank hinton
metazen // no school poems three + four
metazen // no school poems three + four
monkeybicycle // when she pets the back of my neck i can be an animal // nominated for Pushcart Prize
mud luscious press // 15 // we are a gold mine
my name is mud // pets with insomnia
mud luscious press // 15 // we are a gold mine
my name is mud // pets with insomnia
new wave vomit // 74 // old tampons // nominated for best of the web // 2011 // dzanc books
new wave vomit // 80 // truth serum
the newer york // little life
no news today // waste a little shaving cream
the newer york // little life
no news today // waste a little shaving cream
pangur ban party // what if, wendy // an e book
poor claudia // diminishing returns
pop serial // 2 // 3 stories / old tampons + voice over animation + serendipity // print
pop serial // 3 // cities
pop serial // 4 // deserters
poor claudia // diminishing returns
pop serial // 2 // 3 stories / old tampons + voice over animation + serendipity // print
pop serial // 3 // cities
pop serial // 4 // deserters
purple and gray // treasure hunter
red lightbulbs // 9 // new monkey / w/ Jessamyn Bateman-Iino
the scrambler // 45 // baby is going to die tonight
slab literary magazine // 6 // animals with expression // print
smalldoggies magazine // baby is going to die tonight
smalldoggies magazine // baby is going to die tonight // print
red lightbulbs // 9 // new monkey / w/ Jessamyn Bateman-Iino
the scrambler // 45 // baby is going to die tonight
slab literary magazine // 6 // animals with expression // print
smalldoggies magazine // baby is going to die tonight
smalldoggies magazine // baby is going to die tonight // print
tenían veinte años y estaban locos // serio // a spanish translation, selected by Luna Miguel
thought catalog // excerpt from 'animal' (ypp)
thought catalog // how to survive a car accident
thunderclap press // napowrmo 2011 chapbook // no school poems one
titular journal // planet b boy
universal error // love in the club
universal error // soap opera: deserters
universal error // soap opera episode one: ellen page
unsure if i will allow for my beard to grow for much longer // film studies (reading beauty talk & monsters)
thought catalog // excerpt from 'animal' (ypp)
thought catalog // how to survive a car accident
thunderclap press // napowrmo 2011 chapbook // no school poems one
titular journal // planet b boy
universal error // love in the club
universal error // soap opera: deserters
universal error // soap opera episode one: ellen page
unsure if i will allow for my beard to grow for much longer // film studies (reading beauty talk & monsters)
unsure if i will allow my beard to grow for much longer // he watches her in the window walk away for a long time and imagines his wife or Greta Gerwig
used furniture review // it's not wrong you know it's not wrong
vol. 1 brooklyn // chloe in the afternoon
used furniture review // it's not wrong you know it's not wrong
vol. 1 brooklyn // chloe in the afternoon
forthcoming /
books
books
scrambler books // you private person : stories (2012)
other /
dennis cooper's the weaklings // DC covers WHAT IF, WENDY
ear eater // 4 // the apocalyptic absurd / tumblr // featuring Blake Butler, Richard Chiem, Lindsay Hunter, Emily Jones and Mike Kitchell
fix it broken // the youth is write series // Richard Chiem interviewed by Frank Hinton
fix it broken // the youth is write series // Steve Roggenbuck interviewed by Richard Chiem
noo weekly // 1 May 2011 // edited by Richard Chiem / featuring Luna Miguel, Steve Roggenbuck, Frank Hinton, Timothy Willis Sanders, and Ana C.
orange alert podcast // episode 62 : laughing at wasabi // Richard Chiem / leslie cheung jumps off my building closes his eyes and then sings a song we both know and love
orange alert podcast // episode 63 : tell me the truth // Richard Chiem / Planet B Boy
slog // Paul Constant re APRIL LIT CRAWL
the weaklings library // features WHAT IF, WENDY
reviews /
critique manque // Morgan Myers reviews STORIES in POP SERIAL 2
dead end on progressive ave // Eric Beeny reviews WHAT IF, WENDY // e book
full stop // fiction weekly (May 12) // Ryan Nelson reviews WE ARE A GOLD MINE
html giant // Matthew Simmons reviews OH NO EVERYTHING IS WET NOW
i don't respect female expression // Frank Hinton reviews WHAT IF, WENDY // e book
i don't respect female expression // Frank Hinton reviews OH NO EVERYTHING IS WET NOW
the lit pub // Alexander Allison covers OH NO EVERYTHING IS WET NOW
vouched books // Tyler Gobble reviews OH NO EVERYTHING IS WET NOW
the stranger // Paul Constant reviews YPP