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Open City (magazine)
''Open City Magazine and Books'' was a New York City-based magazine and book publisher that featured many first-time writers alongside those who are well known. The editors were Thomas Beller and Joanna Yas. History and profile Thomas Beller and Daniel Pinchbeck founded the magazine in 1991, and were soon joined by Robert Bingham, who in 1999 founded the book series. It was published by a nonprofit organization, Open City, Inc. ''Open City Magazine'' was produced three times per year. Open City Books released two to four books per year. Their first book was a collection of poetry by David Berman. The magazine and books were distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West. Writers published in the magazine include Mary Gaitskill, Richard Yates, Irvine Welsh, David Foster Wallace, Robert Stone, Martha McPhee, Nick Tosches, Denis Johnson, Rick Moody, Michael Cunningham, Jonathan Ames, Sam Lipsyte, Joe Andoe, David Berman, Jonathan Baumbach, Joshua Beckman, Matthew Rohrer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Beller
Thomas Beller (born May 23, 1965) is an American author and editor. Early life Born and raised in New York City, Beller has remained a resident of his native city, which often features in his stories. He is the son of documentary filmmaker Hava Kohav Beller. After attending Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn, New York, he received his BA from Vassar College, and his MFA from Columbia University Writing Program. Career While still studying for his MFA, ''The New Yorker'' published Beller's short story "A Different Kind of Imperfection", which was chosen for the ''Best American Short Stories'' volume of 1992. Since, his work has appeared in such publications as ''The New York Times'', ''ELLE'', ''Spin'', ''Vogue'', ''Slate'', and ''The Village Voice''. He spent a year as a staff writer at ''The New Yorker'', and later worked for ''The Cambodia Daily'' newspaper, where he remains a contributing editor. He is a contributing editor to Travel+Leisure Magazine. Beller has penned four v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Johnson
Denis Hale Johnson (July 1, 1949 – May 24, 2017) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet. He is perhaps best known for his debut short story collection, '' Jesus' Son'' (1992). His most successful novel, ''Tree of Smoke'' (2007), won the National Book Award for Fiction. His other novels include ''Angels'' (1983), ''Fiskadoro'' (1985), '' The Stars at Noon'' (1986), '' Resuscitation of a Hanged Man'' (1991), '' Already Dead: A California Gothic'' (1997), '' The Name of the World'' (2000), '' Nobody Move'' (2009), ''Train Dreams'' (2011), and '' The Laughing Monsters'' (2014). Johnson was twice shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His final work, a book of short stories titled '' The Largesse of the Sea Maiden'', was published posthumously in 2018. Johnson also wrote plays, journalism, and nonfiction. Early years Denis Johnson was born on July 1, 1949, in Munich, West Germany. Growing up, he also lived in the Philippines, Japan, and the suburbs of Washi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Brown (writer)
Jason Brown Michael Miller“Exile on Maine Street,”''Time Out New York'', November 22, 2007. is an American writer who writes primarily about Maine and New England. He has published two collections of short stories and had a third forthcoming in October 2019. His fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies including ''The New Yorker'' , '' Harper's'' , ''The Atlantic'' and '' The Best American Short Stories.'' Early life and education Brown grew up in Maine. He earned an MFA in creative writing from Cornell University.Yvonne Daley“Success Stories,”''Stanford Magazine'', July/August 1999. In 1996, he received a Stegner Fellowship to study creative writing at Stanford University. Career ''Driving the Heart'' After its initial publication in the ''Mississippi Review'', his story "Driving the Heart" was selected for ''The Best American Short Stories 1996''.Greg Schutz“Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work by Jason Brown,”Fiction Writers Review, September ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hakim Bey
Peter Lamborn Wilson (October 20, 1945 – May 23, 2022) was an American anarchist author and poet, primarily known for his concept of Temporary Autonomous Zones, short-lived spaces which elude formal structures of control. During the 1970s, Wilson lived in the Middle East, where he explored mysticism and translated Persian texts. Starting from the 1980s he wrote (under the pen name of ''Hakim Bey'') numerous political writings, illustrating his theory of "ontological anarchy". His style of anarchism has drawn criticism for its emphasis on individualism and mysticism, as did some of his writings where he defended pederasty. Life Wilson was born in Baltimore on October 20, 1945. While undertaking a classics major at Columbia University, Wilson met Warren Tartaglia, then introducing Islam to students as the leader of a group called the Noble Moors. Attracted by the philosophy, Wilson was initiated into the group, but later joined a group of breakaway members who founded the Moorish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Bialosky
Jill Bialosky (Born Jill Robin Bialosky, April 13, 1957 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American poet, novelist, essayist and executive book editor. She is the author of four volumes of poetry, three novels, and two recent memoirs. She co-edited with Helen Schulman an anthology, ''Wanting a Child''. Her poems and essays have appeared in ''The New Yorker'', ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''The Paris Review'', ''The Atlantic Monthly'', '' Harper’s'', ''O Magazine'', ''Real Simple'', ''American Scholar'', ''The Kenyon Review'', ''Harvard Review'', and chosen for ''Best American Poetry'', among others. Early life Bialosky grew up in suburban Cleveland, Ohio. Her mother is Iris Bialosky and her father was Milton Bialosky, who died when Bialosky's mother was 24, with three daughters under the age of three. In ''History of a Suicide'' Bialosky writes about growing up with four sisters and a widowed mother and her youngest sister, Kim's suicide on April 15, 1990 at age 21. Writing Cara B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anselm Berrigan
Anselm Berrigan (born 1972) is an American poet and teacher. Life and work Anselm Berrigan grew up in New York City, where he currently resides with his wife, poet Karen Weiser. From 2003 to 2007, he served as artistic director at the St. Mark's Poetry Project. He is the brother of poet and musician Edmund Berrigan, half-brother of Kate Berrigan and scientist David Berrigan, son of poets Alice Notley and the late Ted Berrigan, and stepson of the late English poet and prose writer Douglas Oliver. He has also lived in Buffalo, New York at the "Ranch" and was known lovingly as "Anton" in San Francisco, California. He is a co-chair of the writing program at the Bard College summer MFA program and an adjunct teacher at Brooklyn College. He has also taught writing at Wesleyan University, Rutgers University, Pratt Institute and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa. His newest works are a book-length poem called ''Notes From Irrelevance'' (2011), ''Sure Shot'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Zapruder
Matthew Zapruder (1967) is an American poet, editor, translator, and professor. His second poetry collection, ''The Pajamaist'', won the 2007 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and was chosen by ''Library Journal'' as one of the top ten poetry volumes of 2006. His first book, ''American Linden'', won the Tupelo Press Editors' Prize. His most recent book of poetry, ''Sun Bear'', brings the strangeness of poetry closer to everyday life. Life His poems have appeared in ''The Boston Review, The Believer, Fence, Bomb, McSweeney's, Jubilat, Conduit, Harvard Review, The New Republic,'' ''The New Yorker'', and ''The Paris Review''. In 2007, he was a Lannan Literary Fellow in Marfa, Texas.News release and web page"Young Poets Recognized by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Five Receive Academy Prize in Honor of May Sarton", December 15, 2008, at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences website, retrieved December 17, 2008 He is the winner of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Rohrer
Matthew Rohrer (born 1970) is an American poet. Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Rohrer was raised in Oklahoma. He earned a BA from the University of Michigan (where he won a Hopwood Award for poetry) and a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from the University of Iowa. His first book of poetry, ''A Hummock in the Malookas'' (1995), was selected by Mary Oliver for the 1994 National Poetry Series. In 2005, his collection ''A Green Light'' was shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize. James Tate said of ''A Green Light,'' "There are poems in A Green Light that can break your heart with their unexpected twists and turns. You think you know where you are and then you don't and it is inexplicably sad. You experience some kind of emotion that you can't even name, but it's deep and real. That's the power of Matthew Rohrer's new poems." He was a co-founder and poetry editor for ''Fence'' magazine. He lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches at New York University. Bib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Beckman
Joshua Beckman is an American poet. Life Joshua Beckman was born in 1971 New Haven, Connecticut, and graduated from Hampshire College. He is the author of eight collections of poetry, including ''The Inside of an Apple'' (which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award), ''Take It'', ''Shake'', and ''Things Are Happening'', which won the first annual Honickman-APR book award. He has collaborated with Matthew Rohrer on live improvised poems, collected in the book ''Nice Hat. Thanks'' and the audio CD ''Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty'' (which was recorded while on a 25-city tour). As part of their collaboration Beckman and Rohrer also performed an improvised walking tour of the Brooklyn Museum and a class on eavesdropping for the Museum of Modern Art. Beckman is an editor at Wave Books and has translated numerous works of poetry and prose, including ''Poker'' by Tomaž Šalamun, which was a finalist for the PEN America Poetry in Translation Award, as we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Baumbach
Jonathan Baumbach (July 5, 1933 – March 28, 2019) was an American author, academic and film critic. Life and career Baumbach was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, the son of Ida Helen (Zackheim), a teacher, and Harold M. Baumbach, a painter and academic. His father's disdain for earning tenure at the University of Iowa and various other schools resulted in him moving every year for the first six years of Jonathan's life “looking for a new place to paint." He received a B.A. in English from Brooklyn College in 1955. Baumbach also earned an M.F.A. in playwriting from Columbia University in 1956 and a Ph.D. in English from Stanford University in 1961. Following two years of service in the United States Army, from 1956 to 1958, he was an instructor of English at Stanford (1958–1960) before holding assistant professorships at Ohio State University (1961–1964) and New York University (1964–1966). He returned to Brooklyn College as an associate professor in 1966 and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Andoe
Joe Andoe (born 1955) is an American artist, painter, and author. His works have been featured in exhibits internationally and also numerous museums including the Denver Art Museum, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He is the author of the book '' Jubilee City: A Memoir at Full Speed (P.S.)'', which is a memoir about his life. Early life and education Andoe was born on December 5, 1955, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Andoe loved to draw as a child but he never created any artwork until he was in college. Andoe first realized that painting could be his career when he was enrolled in community college studying agricultural business. He was taking an elective class in art history when he learned about artists such as Robert Smithson and Dennis Oppenheim. He soon changed his major an eventually earned a Master's Degree in Art from the University of Oklahoma in 1981. Exhibitions * 2000, University at Buffalo Art Gallery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
