Darren Cormier

Books by Darren Cormier

A Little Soul: 140 Twitterstories

by Darren Cormier

BookBaby, 2012.

About Me

My earliest memories are of reading the "funny pages" of the newspaper in nursery school. As a hyperactive child, my family would always say that when I wasn't moving, my brain was, and that the only thing to get me to sit still was a book. Given this love of reading, it seemed natural to try my own hand at writing.

I am the author of A Little Soul: 140 Twitterstories, one of the first books of its kind. All stories in the collection are 140 characters or less.
My fiction has appeared in Opium Magazine, Meetinghouse, Amoskeag, Every Day Fiction, Arch Literary Journal, One Forty Fiction, Ether Books, and Thrice Fiction.

I also invented the giraffe.

Why do you write?

A hyperactive imagination; a love of messing with structure and expectations; a love of words and having fun with all the weird words in our language; a quietly competitive spirit; a constant questioning of what is possible (which has gotten me in trouble before). I want to know the pain inside of every person, and to then show that through each of my characters and, hopefully, by showing that pain, help them (and us) heal; to continue to attempt to make proud those who believed in and encouraged my abilities as a writer.

Any favorite authors? Books?

Favorite Authors: Dan Chaon, Jim Shepard, Lydia Davis, Anne Fadiman, Jennifer Egan, Mark Z. Danielewski, Merle Drown, Nick Hornby, Mike Hancock, Gore Vidal, Italo Calvino, Georges Perec, etc etc etc.
Favorite Books: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Calvino
Einstein's Dreams - Alan Lightman
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Among the Missing - Dan Chaon
Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life - Steve Almond
Like You'd Understand Anyway - Jim Shepard
The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin
How NOT to Write a Novel - Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Newman
(it's a growing list)