David Hoenigman
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David Hoenigman (born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio) is an author of experimental literature{{cite web|url=http://htmlgiant.com/random/what-is-experimental-literature-five-questions-debra-di-blasi/ |title=What is Experimental Literature? |publisher=HTML Giant |date=March 11, 2011 |accessdate=March 16, 2012}} and avant-garde literature. He has lived in Tokyo, Japan since 1998.
Hoenigman is a visiting assistant professor at Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus where he teaches courses on Indie Rock, Heavy Metal, Subcultures, and Creative Writing. He founded the SFC Record Club, a space for vinyl record enthusiasts to gather on the Keio campus, in 2022.
''Burn Your Belongings''
Hoenigman's novel, Burn Your Belongings,{{Cite book|title=Burn Your Belongings|id = {{ASIN|0982077556|country=jp}}}} has been described by The Japan Times as "a brave exercise in anti-narrative, a reminder to us that there is more to writing and reading than best-sellers."{{Cite web|last=Finbow|first=Steve|date=2008-07-27|title=Space and the city: experimenting in Japan|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2008/07/27/books/book-reviews/space-and-the-city-experimenting-in-japan/|access-date=2021-09-21|website=The Japan Times|language=en-US}}
Word Riot compared the novel to the work of Samuel Beckett and Pierre Guyotat, summarizing the novel as "a well-crafted and adventurous book from what is undoubtedly a writer of great promise."{{cite web|date=|title=Burn Your Belongings, a review|url=http://www.wordriot.org/template_2.php?ID=1674|url-status=live|publisher=Word Riot|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224094230/http://www.wordriot.org/template_2.php?ID=1674|accessdate=March 16, 2012|archive-date=December 24, 2013}}
The Stranger writes "David Hoenigman's Burn Your Belongings is a dense narrative of choppy sentences that elude the human desire for story at almost every turn. When read aloud, mantralike, the thick walls of text take on the feel of religious chant, a prayer to weariness and sickness and anxiety. At other times, they flutter with moments of happiness and love, and feel exponentially more like real life than anything Hemingway or any naturalist ever put to paper."{{Cite web|last=Constant|first=Paul|title=Show Me Something New|url=https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/show-me-something-new/Content?oid=5463082|access-date=2021-09-21|website=The Stranger|language=en}}
Bibliography
;Novels
- Burn Your Belongings, Jaded Ibis Press (2010)
- Squeal for Joy, Schism 2 Books (2015)
Novellas
- Man Sees Demon, SFC Indie Press (2020)
Chapbooks
Film appearances
Hoenigman appeared as a giant in the film Attack on Titan (2015).{{Cite web|title=『『進撃の巨人 ATTACK ON TITAN エンド オブ ザ ワールド』』|url=https://ameblo.jp/legrandcahier25/entry-12667774812.html|access-date=2021-09-23|website=新・法水堂|language=ja}}
Interviews
Hoenigman regularly interviewed avant-garde writers for the online journal Word Riot. Some of the writers he has interviewed for Word Riot include Mark Amerika, John Bennett, Norbert Blei, Tom Bradley, James Chapman, Billy Childish, Noah Cicero, Dennis Cooper, Debra Di Blasi, Shozin Fukui, Eckhard Gerdes, Richard Gilbert, Richard Kostelanetz, Stacey Levine, Jeffrey Lewis, Carole Maso, Scott McClanahan, Dawn Raffel, Davis Schneiderman, Jess C Scott, Ron Silliman, Judith Skillman, Terese Svoboda, and D. Harlan Wilson.{{cite web|date=|title=David Hoenigman Interviews, Word Riot|url=http://wordriot.org/interviews/|url-status=live|publisher=Word Riot|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130323011623/http://wordriot.org/interviews/|accessdate=March 16, 2012|archive-date=March 23, 2013}}
Hoenigman's Sion Sono article was the cover story of the June 19, 2009 edition of Metropolis Magazine.{{cite web|date=June 18, 2009|title=Director of Chaos|url=https://japantoday.com/category/features/suicide-pacts-cults-and-violence-shape-director-sion-sono|publisher=Metropolis Magazine|accessdate=March 16, 2012}}
In November 2009, Hoenigman's interview with Yoko Ono appeared in The Japan Times.{{cite web|date=November 7, 2009|title=Yoko Ono, Forever a Force for Peace|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2009/11/07/general/yoko-ono-forever-a-force-for-peace/|publisher=The Japan Times|accessdate=March 16, 2012}}
Hoenigman also interviewed Japanese film director and screenwriter, Kōji Shiraishi for 3:AM Magazine.{{cite web|url=http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/if-you-want-blood-you%E2%80%99ve-got-it-an-interview-with-koji-shiraishi |title=Article If You Want Blood (You've Got It): An Interview with Koji Shiraishi |publisher=3:AM Magazine |date=November 29, 2009 |accessdate=March 16, 2012}}
In 2020, Hoenigman started the Blown Speakers Vlog: "A Program for Mass Liberation in the Form of an Album Discussion Vlog."{{Cite web|title=Blown Speakers - YouTube|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQWL4ovrUHyCMu9ocCLLyQ/videos|access-date=2021-09-24|website=www.youtube.com}}
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Category:21st-century American novelists
Category:American male novelists
Category:Writers from Cleveland