I am a writer and editor. I was born in England. I live in San Francisco. You can check out some of my work on this site. I am an assistant fiction editor at Identity Theory, and am on the committee of San Francisco's Litquake festival. I often attend the San Francisco Writers Workshop.

Contact:    james   jameswarner   net

20 Proofs That Despite (or Because?) of Our Political Decline We Live In A Literary Golden Age

Vassily Aksyonov, Generations of Winter

Paul Auster, The Music Of Chance

John Banville, The Untouchable

Samuel Delany, The Madman

Neil Gaiman's The Sandman comic book series

Han Shaogang, A Dictionary of Maqiao

Mark Helprin, The Pacific And Other Stories

Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty

Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian

Ian McEwan, Saturday

Michael Moorcock's entire Colonel Pyat tetrology

Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

Alvaro Mutis, all the Maqroll novellas

Paul Park, The Gospel of Corax

Lionel Shriver, We Need To Talk About Kevin

Jane Stevenson, Several Deceptions

Patrick Suskind, Perfume

Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger

Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

Gene Wolfe, Innocents Aboard