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Guernica (magazine)
''Guernica / A Magazine of Art and Politics'' is an American digital magazine known for publishing fiction, poetry, essays, reportage, art, and interviews that focus primarily on global perspectives and the intersection between art and politics. The magazine is particularly committed to world literature, platforming marginalized voices and translating work from all continents into English, and it has been a place of first publication for many notable writers. History ''Guernica'' was founded in 2004 by Joel Whitney, Michael Archer, Josh Jones, and Elizabeth Onusko. Guernica Inc. has been a not-for-profit corporation since 2009. National Book Foundation Director Lisa Lucas was the publisher of ''Guernica'' from 2014 until 2016. Madhuri Sastry and Jina Moore were co-publishers from 2016 until 2024. Awards and events In 2008, Okey Ndibe's "My Biafran Eyes" won a Best of the Web prize from Dzanc Books. In 2008, Rebecca Morgan Frank's "Rescue" was chosen for the Best New Poets awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Book Foundation
The National Book Foundation (NBF) is an American nonprofit organization established with the goal "to raise the cultural appreciation of great writing in America." Established in 1989 by National Book Awards, Inc.,Edwin McDowell. "Book Notes: 'The Joy Luck Club' is to be in paperback ... The National Book Awards' new foundation". ''The New York Times'', July 5, 1989, page C19. the foundation is the administrator and sponsor of the National Book Awards, a set of literary awards inaugurated in 1936 and continuous from 1950. It also organizes and sponsors public and educational programs. The National Book Foundation's board of directors comprises representatives of American literary institutions and the book industry. In 2009, the board included the president of the New York Public Library, the chief merchandising officer of Barnes & Noble, the President/publisher of Grove/Atlantic, Inc., and others. In 2021, Ruth Dickey succeeded Lisa Lucas as the foundation's fourth e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesse Ball
Jesse Ball (born June 7, 1978) is an American novelist and poet. He has published novels, volumes of poetry, short stories, and drawings. His works are distinguished by the use of a spare style and have been compared to those of Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino. Early life and education Ball was born into a middle-class, English-speaking Irish-Sicilian family in Port Jefferson, New York, on Long Island. Ball's father worked in Medicaid; his mother worked in libraries. His brother, Abram, was born with Down's syndrome and attended a school some distance from the place where they lived. Ball attended Port Jefferson High School, and matriculated at Vassar College. Following Vassar, Ball attended Columbia University, where he earned an MFA and met the poet Richard Howard. Howard helped the then 24-year-old poet publish his first volume, '' March Book'', with Grove Press. Career In 2007 and 2008, Ball published ''Samedi the Deafness'' and the novella ''The Early Deaths of Lub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Kraft
Eric Kraft (born 1944) is an American novelist. He is known for his series of novels that make up ''The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences and Observations of Peter Leroy''. Each novel tells of some aspect of the fictional Leroy's life. Several are supposed to have been written by Leroy. The Personal History, Adventures and Observations of Peter Leroy Premise Kraft's website describes the series: "''The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy'' is one large work of fiction composed of many interconnected parts. Its parts are the memoirs and collected works of a fictional character, Peter Leroy, who tells an alternative version of his life story; explores the effect of imagination on perception, memory, hope, and fear; holds a fun-house mirror to scenes of life in the United States; ruminates upon the nature of the universe and the role of human consciousness within it; and prods and probes the painful world of time and place in search of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Kleeman
Alexandra Kleeman (born 1986) is an American writer. Winner of the 2020 Rome Prize, her work has been reviewed in ''The New York Times'', ''The Guardian'', '' Vanity Fair'', ''Vogue'', and the ''Los Angeles Review of Books''. Early life and education Kleeman was born in Berkeley, California, in 1986 to an American professor of religious studies and a Taiwanese teacher of Japanese literature. She grew up in Japan and Colorado. Kleeman studied creative writing and cognitive science at Brown University, and received an MFA from Columbia University in 2012. Career In 2010 Kleeman's short story "Fairy Tale" was published in ''The Paris Review'' while she was in her first semester of her MFA program. In 2015 her first novel ''You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine'' was published. ''You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine'' was longlisted for both the New York Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize and Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her short story collection ''Intimations'' was published ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahvish Khan
Mahvish Rukhsana Khan (born July 8, 1978)United States Public Records, 1970-2009 (Florida, 2007) is a Pashtun-American lawyer and writer. She graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Government and from the University of Miami School of Law with a Juris Doctor. While still in law school at the University of Miami, Khan, who speaks Pashto, and whose parents are Pashtun, worked as an interpreter for defense attorneys representing detainees held at Guantanamo Bay detention camp. After visiting the military base, she wrote of her experiences in ''The Washington Post'' in 2006. That article was later expanded into a book, '' My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told me'', published in 2008 by PublicAffairs. On February 25, 2010, ''Daily Times'', a Pakistani newspaper, published an excerpt from her book, where she describes meeting Ali Shah Mousovi – the first captive she met. She reported that Mousavi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh (born 11 July 1956)Ghosh, Amitav , '''' is an Indian . He won the 54th in 2018, India's highest literary honour. Ghosh's ambitious s use complex narrative strategies to probe t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Galvin (poet)
James Galvin (born 1951) is the author of seven volumes of poetry, a memoir, and a novel. He teaches at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in Iowa City, Iowa. Biography Galvin was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1951 and was raised in Northern Colorado. He earned a BA from Antioch College in 1974 and an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1977. After receiving his MFA, Galvin taught at Murray State University in Kentucky for two years and Humboldt State University in California for three years. He later joined the faculty at the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he continues to teach each year. Galvin has published seven poetry collections and a compilation of his work, ''Resurrection Update: Collected Poems 1975–1997'' (Copper Canyon Press, 1997). Galvin has also written a memoir, ''The Meadow'', ( Henry Holt, 1992), which recounts the hundred-year history of the ranch he owns on the Colorado–Wyoming border; and the novel ''Fencing the Sky'' (Henry Holt, 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rivka Galchen
Rivka Galchen (born April 19, 1976) is a Canadian American writer. Her first novel, ''Atmospheric Disturbances'', was published in 2008 and was awarded the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. She is the author of five books and a staff writer at ''The New Yorker''. Early life Galchen was born in Toronto, Ontario, to Israeli academics. When she was in preschool, her parents relocated to the United States. She grew up in Norman, Oklahoma, where her father, Tzvi Gal-chen, was a professor of meteorology at the University of Oklahoma and her mother was a computer programmer at the National Severe Storms Laboratory. Education Galchen received her M.D. from Mount Sinai in 2003. After medical school, she earned a MFA in 2006 from Columbia University, where she was a Robert Bingham fellow. Career In 2006, Galchen received the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for women writers. Her first novel, ''Atmospheric Disturbances'', was published in May 2008. The novel was a fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Elliott (author)
Stephen Elliott (born December 3, 1971) is an American writer, editor, and filmmaker who has written and published seven books and directed two films. He is the founder and former Editor-in-Chief of the online literary magazine '' The Rumpus''. In December 2014, he became senior editor at ''Epic Magazine''. Background and education Elliott grew up in Chicago. In his adolescence he was made a ward of the court and placed in several group homes. He attended Mather High School and the University of Illinois, and went on to receive his master's degree in cinema studies from Northwestern University in 1996. In 2001, he was awarded the Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, given to emerging writers in fiction and poetry. He was then the Marsh McCall lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford University. Elliott is Jewish on his father's side. Books and journalism Elliott went on the campaign trail and wrote a book about the 2004 U.S. presidential race, ''Looking Forward to It: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu (, 4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as Marguerite Duras (), was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film ''Hiroshima mon amour'' (1959) earned her a nomination for Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards. Early life and education Duras was born Marguerite Donnadieu on 4 April 1914, in Ho Chi Minh City, Gia Định, French Cochinchina, Cochinchina, French Indochina (now Vietnam). Her parents, Marie (née Legrand, 1877–1956) and Henri Donnadieu (1872–1921), were teachers from France who likely had met at Gia Định High School. They both had previous marriages. Marguerite had two brothers: Pierre, the older, and the younger Paul. Duras' father fell ill and he returned to France, where he died in 1921. Between 1922 and 1924, the family lived in France while her mother was on administrative leave. They then moved back to F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Daitch
Susan Daitch is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. In 1996 David Foster Wallace called her "one of the most intelligent and attentive writers at work in the U.S. today." Early life and education Susan Daitch was born in New Haven, Connecticut. She graduated from Barnard College and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Career She is the author of seven novels and a collection of short stories. Her work has appeared in ''Guernica'', ''Bomb'', ''Pacific Review'', ''The Barcelona Review'', ''Fault Magazine'', ''Rain Taxi'', '' Tablet'', ''Tin House'', ''McSweeney's'', ''Conjunctions'', ''The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Fiction'', and elsewhere. Her novel ''Siege of Comedians'' was listed as one of the best books of 2021 in ''The Wall Street Journal''. She taught at Barnard College, Columbia University, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. A 2012 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, she is a supporter of Women for Afghan Women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Collins
William James Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet who served as the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He was a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York, retiring in 2016. Collins was recognized as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library (1992) and selected as the New York State Poet for 2004 through 2006. In 2016, Collins was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. As of 2020, he is a teacher in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton. Early life and education Collins was born in Manhattan to William and Katherine Collins and grew up in Queens and White Plains. William was born to a large family from Ireland and Katherine was from Canada. His mother, Katherine Collins, was a nurse who stopped working to raise the couple's only child. Mrs. Collins had the ability to recite verses on almost any subject, which she often did, and cultivated in her young son the love of words, both writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
