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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 Lubec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Jefferson, New York
Port Jefferson (informally known as "Port Jeff") is an incorporated village in the town of Brookhaven in Suffolk County, New York, on the North Shore of Long Island. Officially known as the Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson, the population was 7,962 as of the 2020 United States census. Port Jefferson was first settled in the 17th century and remained a rural community until its development as an active shipbuilding center in the mid-19th century. The village has since transitioned to a tourist-based economy. The port remains active as terminus of the Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Ferry, one of two commercial ferry lines between Long Island and Connecticut, and is supplemented by the terminus of the Long Island Rail Road's Port Jefferson Branch. It is also the center of the Greater Port Jefferson region of northwestern Brookhaven, serving as the cultural, commercial and transportation hub of the neighboring Port Jefferson Station, Belle Terre, Mount Sinai, Miller Place, P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Yorker
''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues covering two-week spans. Although its reviews and events listings often focus on the cultural life of New York City, ''The New Yorker'' has a wide audience outside New York and is read internationally. It is well known for its illustrated and often topical covers, its commentaries on popular culture and eccentric American culture, its attention to modern fiction by the inclusion of short stories and literary reviews, its rigorous fact checking and copy editing, its journalism on politics and social issues, and its single-panel cartoons sprinkled throughout each issue. Overview and history ''The New Yorker'' was founded by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a ''New York Times'' reporter, and debuted on February 21, 1925. Ros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Early Deaths Of Lubeck, Brennan, Harp, And Carr
"The Early Deaths of Lubeck, Brennan, Harp, and Carr" is a short story written by American poet and novelist Jesse Ball. The story was originally published in ''The Paris Review'' and won the Plimpton Prize for 2008.Vassar College (2008"Jesse Ball wins Plimpton Prize"/ref> References External links"The Early Deaths of Lubeck, Brennan, Harp, and Carr" in '' The Paris Review
''The Paris Review'' is a quarterly English-language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. In its first five years, ''The Paris Review'' published works by Jack Keroua ...
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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 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 historic films. In 2016 and ... [...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 Arts' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guernica Magazine
''Guernica / A Magazine of Art and Politics'' is an online magazine that publishes art, photography, fiction, and poetry from around the world, along with nonfiction such as letters from abroad, investigative pieces, and opinion pieces on international affairs and U.S. domestic policy. It also publishes interviews and profiles of artists, writers, musicians, and political figures. Guernica Inc. has been a not-for-profit corporation since 2009.''Guernicas stated mission is to publish works that explore "the crossroads between art and politics". According to ''Publishers Weekly'', ''Guernica'' was founded in 2004 by Joel Whitney, Michael Archer, Josh Jones, and Elizabeth Onusko. National Book Foundation Director Lisa Lucas was the publisher of ''Guernica'' from June 2014 until February 2016. Lisa Factora-Borchers and Madhuri Sastry are the current Publishers, and Jina Moore is the current Editor-in-Chief. Awards and events In 2008, Okey Ndibe's "My Biafran Eyes" won a Best of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Curfew (novel)
''The Curfew'' is a 2011 novel by Jesse Ball. It was published by Vintage Books. The book is about authoritarian control, family bonds, and a dystopian setting. Plot William Drysdale was a concert violinist before the City outlawed music and succumbed to chaos. He makes his living as an epitaphorist, writing epitaphs for the gravestones of the dead, as well as those expecting to die soon. His epitaphs are often fictional inventions to provide the deceased's loved ones with a sense of meaning. William has an eight-year-old daughter named Molly. Molly is mute, but extremely intelligent. William and Molly play a game of intricate riddles to keep their imaginations alive. The City has an unofficial curfew, encouraged by cryptic and ominous slogans by the government, where no one is safe out of their homes after 10 p.m. When an old friend claims he has information about William's wife who mysteriously vanished years ago, William is forced to go out after the curfew. Molly is watched ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samedi The Deafness (novel)
Samedi the Deafness is a 2007 novel by Jesse Ball. It is Ball's debut novel, and was published by Vintage Books. Plot James Sim discovers a dying man in the park. The man's final word is, "Samedi." Later, Sim reads an article about a suicide that happened on the White House lawn, a note signed by "Samedi" is left at the scene. Sim soon finds himself hunted by mysterious men. He is eventually kidnapped and brought to a strange asylum, called the verisylum. An official of the verisylum claims that lying is an illness specific to modern life, and informs Sim of the strange and seemingly arbitrary rules that everyone inside the building must follow. Sim meets a woman in yellow, she says her name is Grieve, but then multiple women in the verisylum claim to be named Grieve. In spite of Grieve's (who also refers to herself as Violet and Anastasia at other times, and may have a twin) lies, Sim falls in love with her. Outside the verisylum, suicides continue to occur daily, each acco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Lacey (author)
Catherine Lacey (born April 9, 1985) is an American writer. Career Lacey's first novel, ''Nobody Is Ever Missing'', was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Dwight Garner, in ''The New York Times'', called her prose "dreamy and fierce at the same time." ''Time Out New York'' named it "the (hands down) best book of the year." It also made ''The New Yorker''s list for the best books of 2014. It has been translated into Dutch, Spanish, Italian, French, and German. The novel was a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. In 2016, Lacey won a Whiting Award for her fiction. In 2017 Lacey was named one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists. Her second novel, ''The Answers'', was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It received several positive reviews and comparisons to Don Delillo and Margaret Atwood. In an interview with ''Vogue'', Lacey said, "Even the person who wrote ''Nobody Is Ever Missing'', I can’t really speak on her behalf anym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Photograph Of Jesse Ball In Chicago Taken By Google Streetview
A photograph (also known as a photo, image, or picture) is an image created by light falling on a photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor, such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are now created using a smartphone/camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of what the human eye would see. The process and practice of creating such images is called photography. Etymology The word ''photograph'' was coined in 1839 by Sir John Herschel and is based on the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light," and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing," together meaning "drawing with light." History The first permanent photograph, a contact-exposed copy of an engraving, was made in 1822 using the bitumen-based "heliography" process developed by Nicéphore Niépce. The first photographs of a real-world scene, made using a camera obscura, followed a few years later at Le Gras, Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the United States. The publication has won more than 40 Pulitzer Prizes. It is owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong and published by the Times Mirror Company. The newspaper’s coverage emphasizes California and especially Southern California stories. In the 19th century, the paper developed a reputation for civic boosterism and opposition to labor unions, the latter of which led to the bombing of its headquarters in 1910. The paper's profile grew substantially in the 1960s under publisher Otis Chandler, who adopted a more national focus. In recent decades the paper's readership has declined, and it has been beset by a series of ownership changes, staff reductions, and other controversies. In January 2018, the paper's staff voted to unionize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granta
''Granta'' is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom whose mission centres on its "belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story’s supreme ability to describe, illuminate and make real." In 2007, ''The Observer'' stated: "In its blend of memoirs and photojournalism, and in its championing of contemporary realist fiction, ''Granta'' has its face pressed firmly against the window, determined to witness the world." Granta has published twenty-seven laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Literature published by Granta regularly win prizes such as the Forward Prize, T. S. Eliot Prize, Pushcart Prize and more. History ''Granta'' was founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University as ''The Granta'', edited by R. C. Lehmann (who later became a major contributor to ''Punch''). It was started as a periodical featuring student politics, badinage and literary efforts. The title was taken from the medieval na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
