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frizzelle@thestranger.com

Christopher Frizzelle is the editor of The Stranger. He joined the paper in 2003 as the books editor, became the arts editor in 2004, and was promoted to editor in 2007. He has written features about psychosis, the effect of 9/11 on his military family, famous liars, hunting for magic mushrooms in Oregon, Miranda July's fiction, the music of The Shins, and creepy old buildings, among other topics. He is one of the authors of How to Be a Person: The Stranger's Guide to College, Sex, Intoxicants, Tacos, and Life Itself. He curates cabarets in rock clubs with writers and artists and hosts a regular silent reading party at the Sorrento Hotel.

Articles by Christopher Frizzelle from 2011

Section

Date

  • Suggests

    Silent Reading Party

    The special guests at this extra-special dead-of-winter silent reading party are four handsome gents.
    Posted on 12/21/2011
  • Books

    Bleeding from Strange Places

    Joan Didion Is the Most Ruthless Writer to Ever Write About Joan Didion
    Posted on 12/07/2011
  • A Very 99 Percent Holiday

    A Very 99 Percent Holiday

    Where You Should Spend Your Money—and Where You Should Definitely Not Spend Your Money—This Season
    Posted on 12/07/2011
  • Suggests

    Silent Reading Party

    It’s the first Wednesday of the month—when a bunch of people descend on the Fireside Room to read and drink in each other’s company while local musicians play classical music—and it’s also the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
    Posted on 11/23/2011
  • Features

    Fuck You, Big Banks

    Four Stranger Writers Tell Their Big Banks Where to Stick It
    Posted on 10/12/2011
  • Suggests

    Heather McHugh

    Seeing Heather McHugh read is like plugging yourself into an electric socket.
    Posted on 10/05/2011
  • Back to School

    Christopher Frizzelle's Guide to Coming Out

    You're Not Fooling Anyone—You're Gay, Okay?
    Posted on 09/21/2011
  • Theater

    John Osebold

    John Osebold, 2011 Stranger Genius in Theater
    Posted on 09/14/2011
  • Genius Awards

    John Osebold

    John Osebold, 2011 Stranger Genius in Theater
    Posted on 09/14/2011
  • Features

    A Monstrous Decade, a Fanatical Family, and the Worst Birthday in Human History

    Ten Years of 9/11 in One Military Family
    Posted on 09/07/2011
  • Film

    Do You Want to Know What Happens in The Future?

    Seeing The Future: Miranda July's New Movie Is Better Once You Know the Ending
    Posted on 08/24/2011
  • Suggests

    ‘The Future’

    Take whatever expectations you have about Miranda July’s second movie, The Future, and throw them out a sixth-story window. It’s a far darker, colder, steelier film than Me and You and Everyone We Know.
    Posted on 08/17/2011
  • Books Column

    Nightstand

    A Literary Review of an Anarchist Newspaper
    Posted on 08/03/2011
  • Suggests

    A Very Humiliating Evening

    A couple months back, we got an advance copy of Wayne Koestenbaum’s new book, Humiliation, lost our minds over its brilliance, and decided to throw a big party.
    Posted on 07/27/2011
  • Books Column

    Nightstand

    Prepare for Humiliation
    Posted on 07/13/2011
  • Music

    Chunks of Pain Covered in Tingly Goo

    Staring at the Universe with Lars Finberg's Intelligence
    Posted on 07/13/2011
  • Books Column

    Nightstand

    A Punk Rock Memoir by Someone Who Doesn't Know About Writing
    Posted on 06/29/2011
  • Books Column

    Nightstand

    Confronting Tao Lin's Publisher, Part One
    Posted on 06/22/2011
  • The Queer Issue: You're Doing It Wrong

    Queers Who Sleep with Straight People

    Queers Who Sleep with Straight People
    Posted on 06/22/2011
  • Books Column

    Nightstand

    How Do You Make Three Sexy Spanish Writers Boring?
    Posted on 06/01/2011

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