Andrei Codrescu

Andrei Codrescu portrait

Andrei Codrescu’s new book is Jealous Witness: New Poems, with a CD of “Storm Songs” by the New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars (Coffee House Press). You can hear Andrei's commentaries every week on NPR's All Things Considered (npr.org). Andrei is the author of New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writing from the City (Algonquin Boooks, 2006), a collection in response to the catastrophe that devastated the city in 2005. Among his other books are the novels, The Blood Countess, Messia@, Casanova in Bohemia, and Wakefield. Codrescu has reported for NPR and ABC News in 1989, and wrote The Hole in the Flag: An Exile’s Tale of Return and Revolution, a book that reports his return to his native Romania to cover the collapse of the dictatorship. Other volumes of reportage from the U.S., Cuba, and Martinique, include, Ay, Cuba! A Socio-erotic Journey, Hail, Babylon: American Cities, and Road Scholar (which was also a Peabody award-winning film). Since 1989, Codrescu has been returning to the language of his birth, and seriously attempting bilingvism. This attempt is documented and explored gingerly in a book-length interview called Miracle and Catastrophe: an interview with Andrei Codrescu by Robert Lazu, written in Romanian and published there by Hartmann publishers in 2005. Forthcoming from Princeton University Press is his The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess (April 2009), a book that brings together nearly all his obsessions. The ones not explored there, can be found in Exquisite Corpse: a Journal of Life & Letters (corpse.org) he's been editing since January 1983.

Listen to Ivan Neville singing "Molly's Window" for the New Orleans Klezmer AllStars CD based on Codrescu's poems, and included in the book.

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