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James Greer | |
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Years active | 1991–present |
Notable work | Bad Eminence, Unsane, The Failure |
Style | Post-modernism, experimental literature |
James Greer is an American novelist, screenwriter, director, musician, and critic. As a screenwriter, he is known for writing the 2018 thriller Unsane directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Claire Foy and Juno Temple, as well as the family comedies Max Keeble's Big Move , Just My Luck and The Spy Next Door . He lives in Los Angeles. [1]
Greer was senior editor and senior writer at Spin [2] magazine in New York City in the early 1990s, during which time he helped define the generational cohort that became later widely-known as Generation X. [3]
He wrote and performed all instruments/vocals on the song "Trendspotter Acrobat" on the EP Sunfish Holy Breakfast by Guided By Voices. He was the bassist in the band from 1994 to 1996. [4] [5]
Greer started a band in 2012 with musician Lola G. called DTCV. [6] Pronounced "detective", it was an indie rock duo from Joshua Tree, California. The band released a double album called Hilarious Heaven in 2013 on Xemu Records, followed by a compilation of their early singles and EPs, The Early Year. The duo released their second studio album, Uptime!, in 2015. [7] In April 2016 the band released its third and final studio album, entitled Confusion Moderne, on Xemu Records. [8]
Greer has published three novels: Artificial Light (Little House on the Bowery/Akashic, 2006) [9] , The Failure (Akashic, 2010). [10] Artificial Light won a California Book Award Silver Medal for First Fiction. [11] and Bad Eminence (And Other Stories, 2022), which Andrew Gallix in The Irish Times called "this year's cult classic," writing that the novel was "hilarious, exhilarating and mind-blowing" [12]
In 2013 Greer released his first book of short fiction, titled Everything Flows, via Curbside Splendor. Publishers Weekly said of the book "Halfway between the mind of God and a vivid dream, Everything Flows is proof that there remain new places to go, both on paper and in the known universe." [13]
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Greer has written or co-written several movies, including Max Keeble's Big Move [14] (Disney, 2001), Just My Luck [15] (20th Century Fox, 2006) starring Lindsay Lohan, the Jackie Chan vehicle The Spy Next Door [16] (Lions Gate, 2010) and Unsane , [17] directed by Steven Soderbergh, and starring Claire Foy and Juno Temple (Fingerprint Releasing, Bleecker Street, Regency, 2018). In February 2018, Deadline Hollywood reported that Greer was set to write a script called Planet Kill for Soderbergh to produce. [18] He also has adapted the John Barth novel The Sot-Weed Factor (novel) for a projected series from Soderbergh. [19]
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