James Greer (writer)

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]

FICTION

• Artificial Light (2006)
• The Failure (2010)
• The Speed Chronicles (2011)
• Everything Flows (2013)
• Bad Eminence (2023)

NON-FICTION

• R.E.M.: Behind the Mask (1992)
• Guided by Voices: A Brief History: Twenty-One Years of Hunting Accidents in the Forests of Rock and Roll (2005)

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]