Robert Castle

	Fiction Non-Fiction Poetry Film Art MEB Authors Press Events Distribution Contacts	Robert Castle teaches American History, Film Criticism, and Sociology at a small academy outside Trenton, NJ. He studied English and got a degree in the Writing Program at Penn State in the early seventies. After attending Columbia University School of the Arts for a brief time, he traveled around Europe and lived on and off in Florence, Italy. For fifteen years he lived off his earnings as a cook at a New Jersey seaside town before finally giving up and getting a full-time job, teaching being the least objectionable profession to pursue. He is married and has no children. Bob has regularly published articles for Bright Lights Film Journal since 2000, writing about Stanley Kubrick, the Coen Brothers, James Bond, Fellini, Roger Rabbit, Orson Welles, Disturbing Movies, and GoodFellas. Other of his film essays have appeared in Film Comment (on Full Metal Jacket), The Film Journal (Sam Peckinpah), The Journal of Religion and Film (Eyes Wide Shut), Talking Pictures, 24 Frames Per Second (Paths of Glory), Cinetext (Being There & The King of Comedy), and Metaphilm (Stone's JFK). He has other regular gigs at Unlikely Stories for the Internet version of the Sardine and at The Circle Magazine with a quarterly column called "Half-Baked Ideas." He has also written two essays about teaching History for Archipelago, has several articles about his travels in Europe at The Paumanok Review, and has three literary pieces (on Cortazar, Queneau, Gombrowicz, Perec, Flann O'Brien, Stoppard, and other of his literary gods) at elimae. His fiction can be found at many places online: Fiction Funhouse, Fiction Warehouse, Wilmington Blues, 3 AM, 5_trope, The Sidewalk's End, Octavo, Double Dare Press, Arbutus, Eclectica, Facets, Skive magazine, and Sedona's Attic. His pre-Internet publications included literary magazines like The Sun, Gadfly, Timber Creek Review, Curriculum Vitae, The MacGuffin, The Monocacy Valley Review, The Iconoclast, and A Summer's Reading. A Sardine on Vacation is his first non-book. Bob hopes to have a few books published soon to get himself on the plus side of the "Books Written" column.

Robert Castle teaches American History, Film Criticism, and Sociology
at a small academy outside Trenton, NJ. He studied English and got a
degree in the Writing Program at Penn State in the early seventies. After
attending Columbia University School of the Arts for a brief time, he traveled
around Europe and lived on and off in Florence, Italy. For fifteen years he
lived off his earnings as a cook at a New Jersey seaside town before finally
giving up and getting a full-time job, teaching being the least objectionable
profession to pursue. He is married and has no children.

Bob has regularly published articles for Bright Lights Film Journal since 2000,
writing about Stanley Kubrick, the Coen Brothers, James Bond, Fellini, Roger
Rabbit, Orson Welles, Disturbing Movies, and GoodFellas. Other of his film essays
have appeared in Film Comment (on Full Metal Jacket), The Film Journal (Sam
Peckinpah), The Journal of Religion and Film (Eyes Wide Shut), Talking Pictures,
24 Frames Per Second (Paths of Glory), Cinetext (Being There & The King of Comedy),
and Metaphilm (Stone's JFK). He has other regular gigs at Unlikely Stories for the
Internet version of the Sardine and at The Circle Magazine with a quarterly column
called "Half-Baked Ideas." He has also written two essays about teaching History for
Archipelago, has several articles about his travels in Europe at The Paumanok Review,
and has three literary pieces (on Cortazar, Queneau, Gombrowicz, Perec, Flann O'Brien,
Stoppard, and other of his literary gods) at elimae. His fiction can be found at many places
online: Fiction Funhouse, Fiction Warehouse, Wilmington Blues, 3 AM, 5_trope, The
Sidewalk's End, Octavo, Double Dare Press, Arbutus, Eclectica, Facets, Skive magazine,
and Sedona's Attic. His pre-Internet publications included literary magazines like The Sun,
Gadfly, Timber Creek Review, Curriculum Vitae, The MacGuffin, The Monocacy Valley
Review, The Iconoclast, and A Summer's Reading.

A Sardine on Vacation is his first non-book. Bob hopes to have a few books published soon
to get himself on the plus side of the "Books Written" column.