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Ben Marcus
Ben Marcus (born October 11, 1967) is an American author and professor at Columbia University. He has written four books of fiction. His stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in publications including ''Harper's'', ''The New Yorker'', ''The Paris Review'', ''Granta'', ''The New York Times'', ''GQ'', ''Salon'', ''McSweeney's'', ''Time'', and ''Conjunctions''. He is also the fiction editor of ''The American Reader''. His latest book, ''Notes From The Fog: Stories'', was published by Alfred A. Knopf in August 2018. Life Marcus grew up in Austin, the son of a retired mathematician and the literary critic and Virginia Woolf scholar Jane Marcus. His father is Jewish and his mother is of Irish Catholic background; Marcus had a Bar Mitzvah. Marcus received his bachelor's degree in philosophy from New York University and an MFA from Brown University. Marcus is a professor at Columbia University School of the Arts. He is the editor of ''The Anchor Book of New American Short Storie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Donald Barthelme
Donald Barthelme Jr. (pronounced ''BAR-thəl-mee''; April 7, 1931 – July 23, 1989) was an American short story writer and novelist known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction. Barthelme also worked as a newspaper reporter for the ''Houston Post'', was managing editor of ''Location'' magazine, director of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston (1961–1962), co-founder of ''Fiction'' (with Mark Mirsky and the assistance of Max and Marianne Frisch), and a professor at various universities. He also was one of the original founders of the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. Early life Donald Barthelme was born in Philadelphia in 1931. His father and mother were fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania. The family moved to Texas two years later and Barthelme's father became a professor of architecture at the University of Houston, where Barthelme would later study journalism. Barthelme won a Scholastic Writing Award in Short Story in 1949, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guggenheim Fellow
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon individuals who have demonstrated distinguished accomplishment in the past and potential for future achievement. The recipients exhibit outstanding aptitude for prolific scholarship or exceptional talent in the arts. The foundation holds two separate competitions each year: * One open to citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada. * The other to citizens and permanent residents of Latin America and the Caribbean. The Latin America and Caribbean competition is currently suspended "while we examine the workings and efficacy of the program. The U.S. and Canadian competition is unaffected by this suspension." The performing arts are excluded from these fellowships, but composers, film directors, and choreographers are still eligible to apply. While stude ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin Prize
The Berlin Prize is a residential fellowship at the Hans Arnhold Center, awarded by the American Academy in Berlin to scholars and artists. Each year, about 20 fellows are selected. The stated mission of the program is to improve the transatlantic dialogue in the arts, humanities, and public policy through the development and communication of projects of the highest scholarly merit. The program is privately funded through donations, with the Kellen-Arnhold family as Academy's primary source of financial support. History The creation of the Academy and the program was driven by Richard C. Holbrooke, an American diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Germany towards the waning days of the Cold War. As the last of the American troops were leaving Berlin, Holbrooke proposed the academy as a way of maintaining U.S-German ties. The academy was created in 1994 and the first class of fellows were brought in September 1998. Recipients come from a wide range of academic fields and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creative Capital
Creative Capital is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization based in New York City that supports artists across the United States through funding, counsel, gatherings, and career development services. Since its founding in 1999, Creative Capital has committed over $50 million in project funding and advisory support to 631 projects representing 783 artists and has worked with thousands more artists across the country through workshops and other resources. One of the "most prestigious art grants in the country," their yearly Creative Capital Awards application is open to artists in over 40 different disciplines spanning the visual arts, performing arts, moving image, literature, technology, and socially-engaged art. Their stated mission is to “amplify the voices of artists working in all creative disciplines and catalyze connections to help them realize their visions and build sustainable practices.” History During the "culture wars" of the 1990s, the National Endowment for the Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Endowment For The Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government by an act of the Congress of the United States, U.S. Congress, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on September 29, 1965 (20 U.S.C. 951). It is a sub-agency of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, along with the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The NEA has its offices in Washington, D.C. It was awarded Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre in 1995, as well as the Special Tony Award in 2016. In 1985, the NEA won an honorary Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for its work with the American Film Institute in the identification, acquisition, restoration and preservation of histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whiting Awards
The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama Drama is the specific Mode (literature), mode of fiction Mimesis, represented in performance: a Play (theatre), play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on Radio drama, radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a g .... The award is sponsored by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation and has been presented since 1985. , winners receive US$50,000. The nominees are chosen through a juried process, and the final winners are selected by a committee of writers, scholars, and editors, selected each year by the Foundation. Writers cannot apply for the prize themselves, and the Foundation does not accept unsolicited nominations. Recipients References External links {{Commons category, Whiting Award winnersCurrent Winners [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Saunders
George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) is an American writer of short stories, essays, novellas, children's books, and novels. His writing has appeared in ''The New Yorker'', ''Harper's'', ''McSweeney's'', and '' GQ''. He also contributed a weekly column, "American Psyche", to ''The Guardian'''s weekend magazine between 2006 and 2008. A professor at Syracuse University, Saunders won the National Magazine Award for fiction in 1994, 1996, 2000, and 2004, and second prize in the O. Henry Awards in 1997. His first story collection, ''CivilWarLand in Bad Decline'', was a finalist for the 1996 PEN/Hemingway Award. In 2006, Saunders received a MacArthur Fellowship and won the World Fantasy Award for his short story "CommComm". His story collection ''In Persuasion Nation'' was a finalist for The Story Prize in 2007. In 2013, he won the PEN/Malamud Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Saunders's '' Tenth of December: Stories'' won The Story Prize for short-story c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garielle Lutz
Garielle Lutz (born 26 October 1955) is an American writer of fiction. In 2021, simultaneous with the publication of her book ''Worsted'', Lutz came out as a transgender woman. In 2022, she was twice mentioned as an unlikely contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Career Lutz was an assistant professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, but is now retired. A collection of her short fiction, ''Stories in the Worst Way'', was published by Alfred A. Knopf in November 1996 and re-published by 3rd Bed in 2002 and Calamari Press in 2009. Lutz's second collection of short stories, ''I Looked Alive'', was published by the now-defunct Four Walls Eight Windows in 2003 and republished by Black Square Editions/ Brooklyn Rail in 2010. ''Partial List of People to Bleach'', a chapbook of new and early stories (published pseudonymously as Lee Stone in Gordon Lish's '' The Quarterly'') was released bFuture Tense Booksin 2007. ''Divorcer'', a collection of seven st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kōbō Abe
, known by his pen name , was a Japanese writer, playwright and director. His 1962 novel ''The Woman in the Dunes'' was made into an Woman in the Dunes, award-winning film by Hiroshi Teshigahara in 1964. Abe has often been compared to Franz Kafka for his modernism, modernist sensibilities and his surreal, often nightmarish explorations of individuals in contemporary society. He died aged 68 of heart failure in Tokyo after a brief illness. Biography Abe was born on March 7, 1924 in Kita, Tokyo, Japan and grew up in Mukden (now Shenyang) in Manchuria. Abe's family was in Tokyo at the time due to his father's year of medical research in Tokyo. His mother had been raised in Hokkaido, while he experienced childhood in Manchuria. This triplicate assignment of origin was influential to Abe, who told Nancy Shields in a 1978 interview, "I am essentially a man without a hometown. This may be what lies behind the 'hometown phobia' that runs in the depth of my feelings. All things that are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Ohle
David Ohle is an American writer, novelist, and a lecturer at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. After receiving his M.A. from KU, he taught at the University of Texas at Austin from 1975 to 1984. In 2002, he began teaching fiction writing and screenwriting as a part-time lecturer at the University of Kansas. His short fiction has appeared in ''Esquire'', the ''Transatlantic Review'', ''Paris Review'', and ''Harper's'', among other magazines. While it remained out of print for over thirty years, his first novel ''Motorman'' (initially published in 1972) gathered a quiet cult following, was circulated through photocopies, and went on to become an influence to a generation of American writers such as Shelley Jackson and Ben Marcus.Marcus, Ben. Introduction, ''Motorman'' (2004). 3rd Bed. His subsequent novels ''The Age of Sinatra'' (2004), ''The Pisstown Chaos'' (2008), ''The Old Reactor'' (2013) and ''The Blast'' (2014) take place in the same dystopian setting as ''Motorman''. O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Padgett Powell
Padgett Powell (born April 25, 1952 in Gainesville, Florida) is an American novelist in the Southern literary tradition. His debut novel, ''Edisto'' (1984), was nominated for thNational Book Awardand was excerpted in ''The New Yorker''. Powell has written five more novels—including ''A Woman Named Drown'' (1987); ''Edisto Revisited'' (1996), a sequel to his debut; ''Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men'' (2000); ''The Interrogative Mood: A Novel?'' (2009); and ''You & Me'' (2012), his most recent—and three collections of short stories. In addition to ''The New Yorker'', Powell's work has appeared in ''The Paris Review'', ''Harper's'', '' Grand Street'', ''Oxford American'', ''The New York Times Book Review'', and other publications. Powell has been a writing professor at the University of Florida since 1984. Awards and honors *198National Book Award nomination, ''Edisto'' *1986 Whiting Award *1987 Rome Fellowship in Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. *2011 James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
