Aaron Krach (born February 15, 1972)

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Aaron Krach is an artist and writer who lives in New York. He was born in Michigan (but left after a few months). He grew up in L.A. (where "Half-Life" is set). And now he calls Manhattan home.

Krach is a features editor at House Beautiful magazine. He was a senior editor at Cargo magazine. And editor of Empire (the gay, not the film) magazine. He's written for a random assortment of publications: Time Out New York, Out magazine, InStyle, thePosition.com, CBSHealthwatch.com, The Independent Film and Video Monthly, TVTS, Oui, DOX: International Documentary Film, indieWIRE, A&U magazine Instinct, HX, The Villager, Downtown Express, and TWN (Florida). The former editor of Empire Magazine and arts editor of Gay City News.

His photography and installation art has been show from San Diego to Copenhagen. His last solo show was at DCKT Contemporary in New York City.

Source: http://www.aaronkrach.com/

Further Readings:

Half-Life by Aaron Krach
Paperback: 312 pages
Publisher: Alyson Books; 1st Edition, English Language edition (May 1, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1555838545
ISBN-13: 978-1555838546
Amazon: Half-Life: A Novel

During the last year of the 20th century, 18-year-old Adam Westman finds himself “on the verge of manhood,” as his best friend Dart likes to say. He lives in the exact center of center-less Los Angeles with his depressed father, Greg, and imaginative younger sister, Sandra. When Greg suddenly dies, more than everything changes and the relatively smooth orbits of family and friends are altered when Adam needs them most. In the middle of the drama, a man in uniform appears—and he is more than interested in Adam. This man, a policeman, is warm, witty and wise. He is 6 foot-something, dirty blond, and . . . well, he’s a California Boy trapped inside the body of a 38 year-old man. But how can Adam consider the possibility of a relationship when he is dealing with his father’s death, his friends’ (and his own) pre-pre-pre mid-life crises, his mother’s ambivalence, and his little sister’s need for him? Then again, how can he not?

Half-Life is about being—or at least feeling—young and old at the same time. About loving, or wanting to love, but knowing that life and love are both as exuberant and seductive yet two-dimensional and illusory as a billboard along any of Los Angeles’s endless freeways.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I loved this book. IMO it deserves more attention.

Ciao

Antonella