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Luke B. Goebel (born 1980) is an American author and screenwriter. His novel Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours was the recipient of the American Book Review Ronald Sukenick Prize for Innovative Fiction.[1] and the Joan Scott Memorial Fiction Award[2]. He was named one of SMU's "Top 10 Haute Young Authors" for 2015. He co-wrote the screenplay for the Oscar nominated film Causeway (2022) and Eileen (2023). He is the co-founder and co-owner of Omniscient Productions.
Early Life and Education
[edit]Luke Goebel attended Jesuit High School and Lincoln High School in Portland, Oregon and The Gunnery (The Frederick Gunn School) in Washington, Connecticut.
He attended Santa Clara University as well as Kenyon College. He earned his BA from the University of San Francisco. He received his MFA in English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2007-2010).
Luke studied with the American writer Gordon Lish. When Luke was twelve he called Ken Kesey, who was Gordon Lish's best friend, and he later befriended Mountain Girl and other members of the Grateful Dead community.
Career
[edit]Luke Goebel taught at UMass and the University of Texas at Tyler[3] as a visiting and assistant professor. He also taught at San Jose State University and UC Riverside.
From 2009 to 2013 Luke co-edited New York Tyrant Magazine with the late Giancarlo DiTrapano. He also co-founded Tyrant Books with Giancarlo DiTrapano. There he collaborated on editing and launching Preparation for the Next Life by Atticus Lish, which won the 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction[4]
Works
[edit]Luke has published fiction and nonfiction at Catapult[5], New York Tyrant[6], VICE[7], The American Reader[8], Autre[9], Green Mountains Review[10], and Gigantic Magazine (no longer active). He has been featured in Interview Magazine[11], Los Angeles Times[12], The New Yorker[13], The Cut[14], Vulture[15], The New York Times[16], The Guardian[17], Rolling Stone[18], and elsewhere.
His novel Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours was the recipient of the American Book Review Ronald Sukenick Prize for Innovative Fiction[1] and the Joan Scott Memorial Fiction Award[2]. It was listed as a most-anticipated and best book of 2014 by almost a dozen publications including Electric Literature[19], Reader's Digest, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn[20].
Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours is a bildungsroman coming-of-age told by a Pícaro/Clown/madman and naif exploring a surreal postmodern America. The novel has drawn comparisons to work by American iconoclasts William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac, and Barry Hannah, and praise from contemporary luminaries Blake Butler, Padgett Powell and Jim Shepard. It is a nested narrative that explores the heartbreaking destructive quality of the mythos of the identity of the American western literary hero.
In 2020 Luke co-wrote the Oscar nominated film Causeway. The film was released 2022 after several delays to the project including hurricanes, Covid-19 and Jennifer Lawrence's pregnancy. Brian Tyree Henry was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 95th Academy Awards for his performance.
In 2022 Luke founded Omniscient Productions[21] along with Ottessa Moshfegh.
In 2023 Luke co-wrote the screenplay for Eileen with Ottessa Moshfegh, based off of Ottessa Moshfegh's award-winning novel. The film stars Thomasin Mackenzie and Anne Hathaway. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2023, and was released in theaters in the United States on December 1, 2023, by Neon.
Luke Goebel has had writing contracts with Apple, A24, Fox Searchlight. He adapted The Light Years by Chris Rush for Atlas Entertainment though the film was not made. He also worked on a Blondie biopic for A24 and Elara that was not made.
Luke's new novel Kill Dick will be released in spring 2026 by Red Hen Press.
Reviews
[edit]Praise for Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours:
“If Kerouac were writing today, his work might look something like this—and despite the title, many of the stories are indeed ours, as they focus on love and loss, pain and yearning.… This is a fierce, untamed, riotous book—and from the first page you’ll know you’re not reading Jane Austen.”— Kirkus[22]
“Luke B. Goebel’s Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours (Fiction Collective Two) is a thunderous, fantastical debut novel.”—Interview[23]
“...the pleasures of Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours come so fast and frequent you’ll even overlook that there are, actually, only thirteen stories in the table of contents.”—Electric Literature[24]
“It’s a book I carried around for weeks and whose pages, which I often returned to again and again, are rippled, dog-eared, and covered in ink and underlines.”—The Rumpus[25]
"About twenty pages into Luke B. Goebel's Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours, I realized I was reading with one hand holding my forehead and one balled at my waist, kind of clenched, and gazing down into the paper like a man soon to be converged upon. Goebel's testimony comes on like that: engrossing, fanatical, full of private grief, and yet, at the same time, charismatic, tender, and intrepid, aglow with more spirit than most Americans have the right to wield."— Blake Butler, author of Nothing and Scorch Atlas[26]
Personal Life
[edit]Luke Goebel met Ottessa Moshfegh in 2016 at her apartment in East Hollywood to interview her for fanzine.com about her recent short story collection Homesick for Another World.
The two were married in 2018 in her apartment with a minister off a 1-800 Get Married number.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Luke B. Goebel". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2025-01-21.
- ^ a b "Faculty Receives Literary Award". www.uttyler.edu. Retrieved 2025-01-21.
- ^ "Faculty Receives Literary Award". www.uttyler.edu. Retrieved 2025-01-21.
- ^ Flood, Alison (2015-04-08). "PEN/Faulkner award goes to Atticus Lish debut". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-01-21.
- ^ "Surviving Psych Med Changes and/or Withdrawal: an essay & guidebook for creative minds". Retrieved 2025-01-21.
- ^ "Sample Page". NY Tyrant. Retrieved 2025-01-20.
- ^ Goebel, Luke (2017-12-07). "'Inside the Presidential Bungalow,' an Excerpt from Luke Goebel's Upcoming Novel". VICE. Retrieved 2025-01-20.
- ^ Staff. "Staff Picks: Print Favorites | The American Reader". theamericanreader.com. Retrieved 2025-01-20.
- ^ "luke goebel — This and That Autre Magazine". Autre Magazine. 2016-10-18. Retrieved 2025-01-20.
- ^ Goebel, Luke. "Luke Goebel, Author at Green Mountains Review". Green Mountains Review. Retrieved 2025-01-20.
- ^ Nevins, Jake (2023-12-08). "Ottessa Moshfegh and Luke Goebel Want to Make a Movie About Rats". Interview Magazine. Retrieved 2025-01-20.
- ^ Johnson, Bonnie (2023-11-30). "How 'Eileen' author Ottessa Moshfegh and her husband turned a novel into an Oscar contender". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2025-01-20.
- ^ Levy, Ariel (2018-07-02). "Ottessa Moshfegh's Otherworldly Fiction". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2025-01-20.
- ^ Phillips, Kaitlin (2018-07-19). "Ottessa Moshfegh Plays to Win". The Cut. Retrieved 2025-01-21.
- ^ Guy, Zoe (2022-10-06). "Jennifer Lawrence's Rest and Relaxation Is Over in Causeway". Vulture. Retrieved 2025-01-21.
- ^ Wilkinson, Alissa (2023-11-30). "'Eileen' Review: Sudden Fire, Sudden Danger". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-01-21.
- ^ Bradshaw, Peter (2023-11-29). "Eileen review – Anne Hathaway is vehement in solemnly intense psycho-noir". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-01-21.
- ^ Fear, David (2023-12-02). "'Eileen' Is One Genuinely F-cked Up Psychological Thriller". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2025-01-21.
- ^ electricliterature (2014-02-20). "The Great 2014 Indie Press Preview". Electric Literature. Retrieved 2025-01-21.
- ^ "A Year of Favorites: Tobias Carroll". Vol. 1 Brooklyn. 2014-12-12. Retrieved 2025-01-21.
- ^ Nevins, Jake (2023-12-08). "Ottessa Moshfegh and Luke Goebel Want to Make a Movie About Rats". Interview Magazine. Retrieved 2025-01-21.
- ^ "Luke B. Goebel". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2025-01-21.
- ^ "Luke B. Goebel's Chaos Theories". Interview Magazine. 2014-09-29. Retrieved 2025-01-21.
- ^ electricliterature (2014-09-11). "REVIEW: Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours by Luke B. Goebel". Electric Literature. Retrieved 2025-01-21.
- ^ Schultz, Rebecca (2014-10-13). "Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours by Luke B. Goebel". The Rumpus. Retrieved 2025-01-21.
- ^ "Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours". University of Alabama Press. Retrieved 2025-01-21.