Steve Weiner is a Canadian

Canada

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 writer and animator. He was born in Wisconsin and studied writing at the University of California. He lives in Vancouver and in London, England.

Books

Weiner's 1994 debut novel The Museum of Love earned comparisons to William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs

William Seward Burroughs II was an American novelist, poet, essayist and spoken word performer. A primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author, he is considered to be "one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the 20th...

, Céline

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the pen name of French writer and physician Louis-Ferdinand Destouches . Céline was chosen after his grandmother's first name. He is considered one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, developing a new style of writing that modernized both French and...

, Jean Genet

Jean Genet

Jean Genet was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing...

, David Lynch

David Lynch

David Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed "Lynchian", and which is characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound...

 and Todd Haynes

Todd Haynes

Todd Haynes is an American independent film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his feature films Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, Poison, Velvet Goldmine, Safe, and the Academy Award-nominated Far from Heaven and I'm Not There.- Style and themes :The writes that "Haynes is...

 for its blend of surrealism

Surrealism

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 and dark eroticism, and was a nominee for the inaugural Giller Prize.

His second novel, The Yellow Sailor, was published in 2001 by the Overlook Press of Woodstock & New York. Critics' comments reproduced on that book's cover refer to 'brisk staccato prose,' 'brutish music,' and 'the disillusionment and venality of Brecht.' The novel consists almost entirely of curt, sardonic dialogue interrupted by terse descriptions of a grotesque world of anti-semitism and nationalism that surrounds its merchant-sailor protagonists in the Europe of World War 1. The novel's title is also the name of their ship, which sails from Hamburg in 1914. The paperback edition is aptly illustrated with a painting by Otto Dix, "Abschied von Hamburg," dated 1921.

Weiner's third novel is entitled Sweet England, published in 2010.