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Unstuck
''Unstuck'' was an American literary magazine based in Austin, Texas that published fiction and poetry. Since its first volume, released in the fall of 2011, ''Unstuck'' was devoted to breaking down traditional genre fiction barriers. Past contributors include Aimee Bender, J. Robert Lennon, Kevin Brockmeier, Jonathan Lethem, Elizabeth McCracken, Rick Moody, Etgar Keret, Edward Carey, Dean Young, Amelia Gray, Lincoln Michel, Helen Phillips, Marisa Matarazzo, and Joe Meno Joe Meno (born September 15, 1974) is an American novelist, writer of short fiction, playwright, and music journalist based in Chicago. Biography After attending Columbia College Chicago, Meno spent time working as a flower delivery truck driver .... The magazine was published annually. Stories published during the initial three-issue run of ''Unstuck'' were later reprinted in ''Harper's'' (Mary Ruefle's "The Gift"), ''Best American Nonrequired Reading'' (Tom McAllister's "Things You're Not Proud Of" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marisa Matarazzo
Marisa Matarazzo is an American author and educator. She is best known for her collection of interconnected short stories, ''Drenched'', published by Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint. Biography She is from Los Angeles, California, the daughter of abstract painter Francine Matarazzo, and John H. Schumann, a professor of applied linguistics. Her half-brother from her mother's first marriage to Gregory Peck's son Stephen Peck, is actor Ethan Peck. She earned her BA degree from Yale University, where she received the Wallace Prize for fiction writing, and the Arthur Willis Colton Scholarship. Earning her MFA degree from University of California, Irvine, she was the recipient of the Dorothy and Donald Strauss Endowed Thesis Fellowship. Matarazzo's works have been published in ''Faultline'', ''Hobart'', ''Fivechapters'', and several other literary journals, and she has taught at UCLA Extension Writers' Program. Her work has also been performed by WordTheatre. She is an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lincoln Michel
Lincoln Michel (born 1982) is an American short story writer, novelist, and editor. He is the author of ''Upright Beasts'' ( Coffee House Press 2015) and ''The Body Scout'' ( Orbit 2021). Career Lincoln Michel was the co-founder and co-editor of '' Gigantic''. From 2014 to 2017, he was the Editor-in-Chief of '' Electric Literature''. He is known for his "genre-bending" stories. His short stories have been published in ''Noon'', ''The Paris Review'', ''Granta'', '' Tin House'', '' Fantasy and Science Fiction'', and '' The Believer''. He won a 2015 Pushcart Prize. His debut novel ''The Body Scout'' was published in 2021 and received critical acclaim. ''The New York Times'' called the novel “timeless and original" and "a wild ride, sad and funny, surreal and intelligent.” ''Boing Boing'' described it as "a modern cyberpunk classic." He has taught at the Columbia University School of the Arts and Sarah Lawrence College. Bibliography Books * ''Upright Beasts'' ( Coffee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magazines Established In 2011
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English-language Magazines
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Defunct Literary Magazines Published In The United States
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Joe Meno
Joe Meno (born September 15, 1974) is an American novelist, writer of short fiction, playwright, and music journalist based in Chicago. Biography After attending Columbia College Chicago, Meno spent time working as a flower delivery truck driver and art therapy teacher at a juvenile detention center. His first novel ''Tender as Hellfire'' was published when he was only 24 and received strong reviews from sources like ''Library Journal''. His short fiction has appeared in literary magazines like '' TriQuarterly'', '' Ninth Letter'', '' Joyland: A hub for short fiction'', and ''Other Voices''. He currently teaches fiction writing at Columbia College Chicago. He is a frequent contributor to ''Punk Planet'' magazine, where his comic strip ''Iceberg Town'' is featured. Selected bibliography *'' Tender as Hellfire''. Akashic Books, 2007/St. Martin's Press, 1999. *'' How the Hula Girl Sings''. Akashic Books, 2005/ReganBooks, 2001. *'' Hairstyles of the Damned''. Akashic Books, 2004. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Phillips (novelist)
Helen Phillips (born 1981) is an American novelist. Biography Phillips was born in Colorado. When she was a child she was affected by alopecia and by the age of 11 she had lost all of her hair. She graduated from Yale University in 2004, and received her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from Brooklyn College (CUNY) in 2007. She moved to Brooklyn with her husband, the artist Adam Douglas Thompson, when she began Brooklyn's MFA and is now an associate professor of creative writing in the English Department of Brooklyn College. Her debut was the story collection ''And Yet They Were Happy'', which was published in 2011. In 2012 it was listed as a "highly recommend" notable collection by The Story Prize. In 2013 she published a children's adventure novel, ''Here Where the Sunbeams Are Green''. She followed it with her first adult novel, ''The Beautiful Bureaucrat'', in 2015. Awards and recognition *The 2008 Calvino Prize for "The Regimes", an excerpt from ''And Yet They Were Happy'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amelia Gray
Amelia Gray (born August 17, 1982) is an American writer. She is the author of the short story collections ''AM/PM'' ( Featherproof Books), ''Museum of the Weird'' (Fiction Collective Two), and ''Gutshot'' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and the novels ''THREATS'' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and ''Isadora'' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Gray has been shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and her television writing has been nominated for a WGA Award. ''The New York Times'' called Gray's stories "leaps of faith, brave excursions into the realms of the unreal." while the ''Los Angeles Times'' defined her style as "akin to the alternately seething and absurd moods of David Lynch and Cronenberg." Of ''THREATS'', NPR said "Amelia Gray's psychological thriller takes us to the brink between reality and delusion." Bibliography Novels *''THREATS'' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012) *''Isadora'' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017) Short story collections *''AM/PM'' ( Feather ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
