Andrei Codrescu
Andrei Codrescu
Andrei Codrescuis a Romanian-born American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and commentator for National Public Radio. He was the Mac Curdy Distinguished Professor of English at Louisiana State University from 1984 until his retirement in 2009...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth20 December 1946
CountryUnited States of America
girl years language
It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things to tell girls.
acquired candy cliche history internet itself mom pocket protect remembered shirt smart somebody strangers wish
I wish somebody told me don't take candy from strangers when I made my first tax-free Internet purchase. I wish that I had remembered the first one's free, which is how dealers make new junkies. I wish that every cliche humanity acquired to protect itself from its history of bamboozlement and trickery was sewn on every shirt pocket by a smart mom.
call city culture feed myths orleans people
Two-thirds of what we call New Orleans culture is really myth-making, ... People feed myths of the city back to the city. These myths are now in pieces.
believe atheism world
The evaporation of 4 million who believe in this crap would leave the world a better place.
art poor
Only the poor can create art.
nostalgia share masochism
Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.
jobs gold emotion
It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.
real nice thinking
The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious (though it helps), but the fact that no real writers ever lay down anything real in public-they work in solitude, they think hard, and their thoughts are rarely nice or 'friendly.'
ghouls people zombie
The worst part about zombies raging unchecked is the slow paralysis that they induce in people who aren't quite zombies yet. The rest of us un-zombies turn our heads, hoping the ghouls will just go away.
spring intelligent lovely
These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.
land evil peasants
The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.
idiot guides needed
There is no ´Complete Idiots Guide to Creationism,´ but perhaps one is not needed.
past collages
In the grand collage that is Dada, past and future are equally usable.
falling-in-love thinking new-orleans
How did you fall in love with New Orleans? At once, madly. Looking back, sometimes I think it was predestined.