| McSweeney's Issue 43 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) Contributor(s): Eggers, Dave (Editor), Martin, Nathan C. (Contribution by), Nguyen, Thao (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 1938073207 ISBN-13: 9781938073205 Publisher: McSweeney's OUR PRICE: $24.30 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2013 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | American - General |
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Contributor Bio(s): Martin, Nathan C.: - Nathan C. Martin is the editor of Room 220: New Orleans Book and Literary News. He is based in Laramie, Wyoming.Monsen, Avery: - Avery Monsen is an actor and writer from San Francisco. He's been on TV shows like Maron, 30 Rock, High Maintenance, Adam Ruins Everything, Crunch Time, Jimmy Fallon, Tosh.0, and Attack of the Show, plus a bunch of commercials. He performs on Maude night with Bombadier. Past UCB credits: Judith, Beige (NY Maude), Seventeen Seventy Something, Goldwater (NY Digital). He is the co-author and illustrator of a several books, including All My Friends Are Dead (national bestseller) and K is for KNIFEBALL: An Alphabet of Terrible Advice (not national bestseller). He also wrote for Billy On The Street.Sommerville, Rachel: - Rachel Sommerville is an Australian-born, California-based private investigator. For the last fifteen years, while working with criminal defense attorneys, she has specialized in the development of biographies of men who are facing the ultimate sanction: the death penalty.Baxter, Charles: - Charles Baxter is the author of five novels and five books of short stories, most recently Gryphon: New and Selected Stories. He has written two books on writing, Burning Down the House and The Art of Subtext, and he recently edited the stories of Sherwood Anderson for the Library of America. He currently teaches at the University of Minnesota and in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla: - Ludmilla Petrushevskaya was born in 1938 in Moscow, where she still lives. She is the author of more than fifteen collections of prose, including the New York Times bestseller There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales (2009), which won a World Fantasy Award and was one of New York magazine's Ten Best Books of the Year and one of NPR's Five Best Works of Foreign Fiction, and There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories (2013). A singular force in modern Russian fiction, she is also a playwright whose work has been staged by leading theater companies all over the world. In 2002 she received Russia's most prestigious prize, the Triumph, for lifetime achievement.Boyle, T. C.: - T. Coraghessan Boyle (also known as T.C. Boyle, born Thomas John Boyle on December 2, 1948) is a U.S. novelist and short story writer. Since the late 1970s, he has published eleven novels and more than 60 short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988 for his third novel, World's End, which recounts 300 years in upstate New York. He is married with three children. Boyle has been a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California since 1978, when he founded the school's undergraduate creative writing program.Wheeler, William: - William Wheeler is an award-winning journalist and producer who has reported on political affairs around Africa and the Middle East, South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, Global Post, Playboy Magazine, TIME, USA Today and other outlets. Most recently, he has worked on Ai Weiwei's documentary, Human Flow, about the global refugee crisis. He hosts the podcast "Detours: Conversations with Global Storytellers on Craft, the Road, and Bumps along the Way." Wheeler holds graduate degrees in journalism and international affairs from Columbia.Nguyen, Thao: - Thao Nguyen (born March 19, 1984), also known as Thao, is an American singer-songwriter originally from Virginia and now based in San Francisco. She is the lead musician of the band Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, and has collaborated with Joanna Newsom and Andrew Bird.Horner, Doogie: - Doogie Horner is a stand-up comedian and graphic designer based in Philadelphia. He's also the author of The First-Timer's Kit (Quirk, 2008) and the forthcoming Everything Explained Through Flowcharts (Collins, 2010).Shaffner, Patrick: - Patrick Shaffner was born in Evansville, Indiana, and joined the Humanities Tennessee team in November of 2017. He serves as Program Officer for their Literature & Language Programs, including the Appalachian and Tennessee Young Writers' Workshops, Southern Festival of Books, Salon@615, Letters About Literature, Student Reader Day events, and more.Elashi, Noor: - Noor Elashi is a writer based in New York City. She has written for The Huffington Post and other publications. With a Creative Writing MFA from The New School, Noor is currently writing a memoir chronicling her father's decade-long prosecution.Lacey, Catherine: - Catherine Lacey is the author of the novels THE ANSWERS and NOBODY IS EVER MISSING. She has won a Whiting Award, was a finalist for the NYPL's Young Lions Fiction Award, and was named one of Granta Magazine's Best Young American Novelists in 2017. Her novels have been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch & German. With Forsyth Harmon, she co-authored a nonfiction book, THE ART OF THE AFFAIR, published by Bloomsbury. Her first short story collection, CERTAIN AMERICAN STATES will be released in August 2018. A third novel is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. |