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Todd Michael Cox

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Rhinelander, WI, The United States
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Todd Michael Cox was born in the northwoods of Wisconsin, and has been writing for most of his life. Although he's had short pieces published here and there he considers the novel to be his natural medium. His work ranges from comic adventures (like DIZZLEMUCK) to darker studies of death, mourning, and the loss and recapture of innocence in modern day America, along with everything in between (as in new novel WE ARE STRANGE CREATURES). He counts a disparate group of writers as influences, including Wallace Stegner, Hemingway, Harper Lee, Alice Munro, Edward Abbey, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, James Joyce, Philip Roth, Margaret Atwood, and Katherine Dunn. The influences of his young and formative years were more along the lines of Bradbury ...more

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Todd Michael Cox I'm inspired by the works of others, not only writers but painters, filmmakers, sculptors, musicians, composers. One could do worse than read the enti…moreI'm inspired by the works of others, not only writers but painters, filmmakers, sculptors, musicians, composers. One could do worse than read the entire collection of Paris Review interviews, to recognize how all those great writers went through everything you are going through. There is one by me now. I re-read those collections constantly, like a theologian continually going back to religious works.(less)
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The Summer Novel

At the end of October I finished a novel that I started in June. Each work is driven by a unique process, and the process for this one involved several changes from any that came before.

One was that I wrote it on an ancient laptop either in my livingroom or outside on the back deck, whereas the works previous had all been written in the spaces I have reserved for writing (in this house that would Read more of this blog post »
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The timber rattlesnake being my favorite local serpent (when I'm forced to choose), this book was of course going to find its way into my hands.

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“Nature's probably my greatest inspiration. Everything I need is found in nature, it compels me to create and care. If you can't find what you're looking for in wild places or the eyes of wild creatures, it probably doesn't exist.”
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“There's nothing wrong with this. Other than sentimentality, the typewriter offers nothing special to the act of writing. What an author uses to write with is a topic of interest only to children and amatuers, but does not matter in the end. It is quite simply irrelevant; the final product is all that is important. Good riddance to them, I say. However, I do wish I still had mine, if only to use as a wonderful percussion device.

--on the Poets and Writers Facebook page, regarding the last typewriter factory closing in India”
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“Nature's probably my greatest inspiration. Everything I need is found in nature, it compels me to create and care. If you can't find what you're looking for in wild places or the eyes of wild creatures, it probably doesn't exist.”
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“Children and dogs are the messengers of God some of us do not deserve them”
Ginnetta Correli




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