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The Best American Short Stories 1991
''The Best American Short Stories 1991'', a volume in ''The Best American Short Stories The Best American Short Stories yearly anthology is a part of '' The Best American Series'' published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Since 1915, the BASS anthology has striven to contain the best short stories by some of the best-known writers in ... series'', was edited by Katrina Kenison and by guest editor Alice Adams.Kennison, Katrina and Alice Adams (editors), ''The Best American Short Stories 1991'', New York, 1991. Short stories included References External links Best American Short Stories 1991 anthologies Fiction anthologies Short Stories 1991 Houghton Mifflin books {{1990s-story-collection-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Novels
A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is a Wikimedia movement affinity group for contributors with shared goals. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within sister projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata, and Wikisource. They also exist in different languages, and translation of articles is a form of their collaboration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS News noted the role of Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine in maintaining the accuracy of articles related to the disease. Another WikiProject that has drawn attention is WikiProject Women Scientists, which was profiled by ''Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian'' for its efforts to improve coverage of women scientists which the profile noted had "helped increase the number of female scientists on Wikipedia from around 1,600 to over 5,000". On Wikipedia Some Wikipedia WikiProjects are substantial enough to engage in cooperative activities with outside organizations relevant t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles D'Ambrosio
Charles Anthony D'Ambrosio, Jr (born 1958) is an American short story writer and essayist. Life The son of Charles D'Ambrosio, Sr (1932-2011), a professor of finance at the University of Washington, D'Ambrosio grew up with two brothers and four sisters in Seattle, Washington. He attended Oberlin College and graduated from the Iowa Writers Workshop, where he is currently on faculty. Previously, D'Ambrosio was on the faculty of Portland State University's MFA Program in Creative Writing, and has also been a visiting instructor at the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. In 2005 he married writer and musician Heather Larimer; the two divorced in 2008. D'Ambrosio is the author of two collections of short stories, '' The Point'' (1995) and '' The Dead Fish Museum'' (2006). He has also published a collection of essays ''Orphans'' (2005). His writings have appeared in '' The New Yorker'', '' The Stranger (newspaper)'', '' The Paris Review' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Jauss
David Patrick Jauss (born January 16, 1957) is an American professional baseball coach (baseball), coach and scout (sport), scout who currently serves as an advisor in the Washington Nationals organization. He previously served as a coach for the New York Mets, Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, Baltimore Orioles and Pittsburgh Pirates. College career Jauss attended school at Amherst College, where he was a teammate of future MLB general manager (baseball), general manager Dan Duquette. He was the captain of both the baseball and basketball teams at Amherst. He also received a B.A. in psychology and a M.S. in Sport Management from what is now the Isenberg School of Management's Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Jauss served as the head baseball coach at Westfield State College in 1982–84, and then Atlantic Christian College in 1985–87. Professional career In 1988, when Duquette became the Montreal Expos' director o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boulevard (magazine)
''Boulevard'' is a biannual literary magazine. It has been called "one of the half-dozen best literary journals" by Poet Laureate Daniel Hoffman in ''The Philadelphia Inquirer''. History The magazine was established in 1985 by Richard Burgin, who served as editor-in-chief through 2015. Interview conducted by Eric Miles Williamson, summer 2003, and Robin Theiss, summer 2005. The Williamson portion first appeared in ''Pleiades'', 2004, vol. 24, no. 2. In 1991 the magazine began to be published by Drexel University in Philadelphia where Richard Burgin taught. In the fall of 1996, Burgin moved to St. Louis and St. Louis University became its publisher, until the magazine became independent in 2013. Poet Charles Simic has called it one of the eight best literary magazines in America.''The New York Review of Books''. July 2, 2003. In a 2003 interview, Burgin said, "My suspicion, especially of many MFA writers, is that they are writing what they think will get published and are not suff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiction (magazine)
''Fiction'' is an American literary magazine founded in 1972 by Mark Jay Mirsky, Donald Barthelme, and Max Frisch. It is published by the City College of New York. This is not the same as the French science fiction magazine '' Fiction'', published from 1953-1990. In its early years, ''Fiction'' was published in tabloid format and featured experimental work by such writers as John Barth, Jerome Charyn, Italo Calvino, Ronald Sukenick, Steve Katz, Russell Banks, Samuel Beckett, and J. G. Ballard. It later took the form of a more traditional paperback literary magazine, publishing short works by Reinaldo Arenas, Isaac Babel, Donald Barthelme, Jackson Bliss, Mei Chin, Julio Cortázar, Marguerite Duras, Natalia Ginzburg, Clarice Lispector, Robie Macauley, Robert Musil, Joyce Carol Oates, Manuel Puig, and John Yau. Though the magazine ostensibly focuses on publishing fiction, as its name implies, it has recently also featured excerpts from Robert Musil's diaries and letters, as well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siri Hustvedt
Siri Hustvedt (born February 19, 1955) is an American novelist and essayist. Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, seven novels, two books of essays, and several works of non-fiction. Her books include ''The Blindfold'' (1992), ''The Enchantment of Lily Dahl'' (1996), '' What I Loved'' (2003), for which she is best known, ''A Plea for Eros'' (2006), '' The Sorrows of an American'' (2008), ''The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves'' (2010), ''The Summer Without Men'' (2011), ''Living, Thinking, Looking'' (2012), ''The Blazing World'' (2014), and '' Memories of the Future'' (2019). '' What I Loved'' and ''The Summer Without Men'' were international bestsellers. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages. Early life Daughter of professor Lloyd Hustvedt, Siri attended public school in her hometown, Northfield, Minnesota, and received a degree from the Cathedral School in Bergen, Norway, in 1973. She started writing at 13 after a family trip to Reykjavík, whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Graver
Elizabeth Graver (born 1964) is an American writer and academic. Early life and education Graver was born in Los Angeles on July 2, 1964, and grew up in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She received her B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1986, and her M.F.A. from the Washington University in St. Louis in 1999. She also did graduate work at Cornell University. Career A recipient of fellowships from Guggenheim Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Suzy Newhouse Center for the Humanities at Wellesley College, she has been a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Boston College since 1993. Graver's 2013 novel, ''The End of the Point'', was long-listed for the 2013 National Book Award and has met with praise since its release. The novel, featured by ''The New York Times'' Book Review editor Alida Becker, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antaeus (magazine)
''Antaeus'' was a literary quarterly founded by Daniel Halpern and Paul Bowles and edited by Daniel Halpern. The magazine existed between 1970 and 1994. Overview It was founded and published in Tangier, Morocco, but operations were shifted to New York City in the mid-1980s. The first number appeared in the summer of 1970, the final issue (#75/76) in 1994. Beginning with the third issue, the magazine bore the imprint of the Ecco Press, which eventually became established as a book publisher. A small number of limited editions were also issued in conjunction with the magazine under the imprint of Antaeus Editions. Particularly in its early years, ''Antaeus'' was known for its internationalist scope. Among its notable contributors were J. G. Ballard, Paul Bowles, Guy Davenport, Stephen King, Harry Mathews, Joyce Carol Oates, Breece D'J Pancake, Yannis Ritsos, W.H. Auden, Leslie Marmon Silko and Andrew Vachss. See also *List of literary magazines A ''list'' is any set o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Gordon (writer)
Mary Catherine Gordon (born December 8, 1949) is an American writer from Queens and Valley Stream, New York. She is the McIntosh Professor of English at Barnard College. She is best known for her novels, memoirs and literary criticism. In 2008, she was named Official State Author of New York. Early life and education Mary Gordon was born in Far Rockaway, New York,Jamaica, New York. Although her mother and her family wanted Gordon to go to a Catholic college, Gordon was awarded a scholarship to Barnard College, and she received her A.B. in 1971. She pursued graduate work, completing an M.A. at Syracuse University in 1973. Career Gordon lived in New Paltz, New York, for a time during the 1980s with her second husband Arthur Cash, a professor of English at the State University of New York at New Paltz. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist (2007) and was Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the time of his death in 2016. They have two adult children, Anna and David. Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Eisenberg
Deborah Eisenberg (born November 20, 1945) is an American short story writer, actress and teacher. She is a professor of writing at Columbia University. Early life Eisenberg was born in Winnetka, Illinois. Her family is Jewish. She grew up in suburban Chicago, Illinois, and moved to New York City in the late 1960s. Career Eisenberg was an editorial assistant at ''The New York Review of Books'' in 1973. She taught at the University of Virginia from 1994 until 2011, when she accepted a teaching position at Columbia University's MFA writing program. Writing Eisenberg has written five collections of stories: ''Transactions in a Foreign Currency'' (1986), ''Under the 82nd Airborne'' (1992), ''All Around Atlantis'' (1997), ''Twilight of the Superheroes'' (2006), and ''Your Duck Is My Duck'' (2018). Ben Marcus, reviewing ''Twilight of the Superheroes'' for ''The New York Times Book Review'', called Eisenberg "one of the most important fiction writers now at work. This work is great ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harriet Doerr
Harriet Huntington Doerr (April 8, 1910 – November 24, 2002) was an American author whose debut novel was published at the age of 74. Early life A granddaughter of California railroad magnate and noted collector of art and rare books, Henry Edwards Huntington, Harriet Green Huntington grew up in a Pasadena, California, family that encouraged intellectual endeavors. She attended high school at Westridge School, in Pasadena. She then enrolled in Smith College in 1927, but transferred to Stanford University the following year where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. In 1930, after her junior year, she left school and married Albert Doerr, Jr., a Stanford 1930 graduate whom she had known in Pasadena. The Doerrs spent the next 25 years in Pasadena, where they raised a son, Michael (d. 1995), and a daughter, Martha. Mexico Albert Doerr's family owned a copper mine in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes. Beginning in 1935, Harriet accompanied Albert on his many business tri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
