Steve Almond

Biography

Steve Almond is the author of the New York Times bestseller Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America (Algonquin, 2004), as well as two collection of stories, My Life in Heavy Metal (Grove, 2002) and The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories, (Algonquin, 2005). His website is at www.stevenalmond.com.

See Work

FICTION / Writers on Writers

Controversial Author and Cultural Icon Found Dead

By Steve Almond
ESSAYS / Summer 2006

John Hughes Goes Deep: The Unexpected Heaviosity of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

By Steve Almond

I missed Ferris Bueller’s Day Off on the first pass, so I never quite understood what all the hubbub was about. 

FICTION / Winter 2006

Tamalpais

By Steve Almond
ESSAYS / Fall 2005

I Learned It All the Hard Way

By Steve Almond

I first heard Howard Tate back in 1995. These were the happy Clinton years. The mean kids hadn’t taken over the playground yet. We were all a little dizzy on peace. I was living in the suburbs of the South, Greensboro to be precise, where I...

ESSAYS / Summer 2005

Heavy Metal Music Will Save Your Life

By Steve Almond

I spent three years as a rock music critic in El Paso, Texas, which was where I lived at the tail end of the eighties and where I came of age, in a sense—grew old enough, that is, to recognize that heavy metal was, essentially, tribal in...

ESSAYS / Winter 2005

Pretty Authors Make Graves

By Steve Almond

I can tell you that I only trust the ugly writers. Deep down, those are the ones who have earned their wrath. All the rest of them, the pretty boy and girl authors, screw them. Or, better yet, don’t screw them. Get them all hot and bothered...

FICTION / Summer 2004

The Problem of Human Consumption

By Steve Almond

Paul, in this case, is a widower. His wife died thirteen years ago. He kept their daughter away as much as he could. There were relatives around to play with her, to shower her with gifts and praise. His wife grew pale in the study. Her...

FICTION / Winter 2004

Have A Coke and A Bullet

By Steve Almond