Artificial Light is the official website of novelist, screenwriter, director, musician and critic James Greer.
Greer was born in Portland, ME on April 23 1971. As a novelist, he's written BAD EMINENCE, THE FAILURE, and ARTIFICIAL LIGHT. He's also written books about R.E.M. and Guided By Voices (a band for which he briefly played bass guitar in the mid-90s), the short fiction collection EVERYTHING FLOWS, and was Senior Editor of SPIN Magazine in its early 90s heyday. As a screenwriter, he's written UNSANE (directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring Claire Foy and Juno Temple) and many other films and TV series. His forthcoming films include THE MONSTER, starring Djimon Honsou and directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, and THE CURE, starring David Dastmalchian and directed by Nancy Leopardi. He lives in Los Angeles.