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Brian Castleberry

Biography

Brian Castleberry

Brian Castleberry’s first novel, NINE SHINY OBJECTS, was a New York Times Editor’s Choice selection and was longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award. His other work has been published in the Southern Review, Narrative, LitHub, the Los Angeles Review of Books and elsewhere.

Brian Castleberry

Books by Brian Castleberry

by Brian Castleberry - Fiction

It’s 2024, and Tobey Harlan steals from the wall of his father’s house three paintings by the venerated artist Di Stiegl. Tobey’s just lost everything he owns to a Northern California wildfire, and if he can sell the paintings he can start life anew. A hundred years before, Klaus Aaronsohn inveigles his way into a film studio in Astoria, Queens. In love with silent cinema, Klaus will restyle himself Klaus von Stiegl, a mysterious aristocratic German film director. He will court fame, fortune, romance and betrayal, and end his career directing a radical, notorious 60s-era detective show. Weaving between Tobey and Klaus is the story of Diane “Di” Stiegl: Klaus’s granddaughter, who claws out a career as an artist in gritty 1980s NYC. Diane will reflect America’s most urgent and hypocritical years back to itself, uneasily finding critical adoration as well as great fame and wealth.