| Hitchcock and Bradbury Fistfight in Heaven Contributor(s): Eggers, Dave (Editor), Doctorow, Cory (Contribution by), Quatro, Jamie (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 1938073630 ISBN-13: 9781938073632 Publisher: McSweeney's OUR PRICE: $21.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2013 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | American - General |
| Dewey: 808.83 |
| Series: McSweeney's Quarterly Concern |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.4" W x 7.9" (1.10 lbs) 448 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Doctorow, Cory: - Canadian-born Cory Doctorow has held policy positions with Creative Commons and the Electronic Frontier Foundation and been a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Southern California. He is a co-editor of the popular weblog BoingBoing (boingboing.net), which receives over three million visitors a month. His science fiction has won numerous awards, and his YA novel LITTLE BROTHER spent seven weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.Quatro, Jamie: - Quatro holds an MA in English from the College of William and Mary, and an MFA in fiction from the Bennington College Writing Seminars. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Ploughshares, McSweeney's, The Kenyon Review, VQR, Agni, and elsewhere. Her stories are anthologized in The O.Henry Prize Stories 2013, The Story and Its Writer (ed. Ann Charters), and the 2018 Pushcart Prize Anthology. A Contributing Editor at Oxford American, Quatro teaches in the summers-only MFA program at Sewanee, The University of the South, and lives with her husband and four children in Lookout Mountain, Georgia.Percy, Benjamin: - Benjamin Percy is the author of four novels, the most recent among them The Dark Net (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017). He is also the author of The Dead Lands (Grand Central/Hachette, 2015), Red Moon (Grand Central/Hachette, 2013) and The Wilding (Graywolf Press, 2010), as well as two books of short stories, Refresh, Refresh (Graywolf Press, 2007) and The Language of Elk (Grand Central/Hachette, 2012; Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2006). His fiction and nonfiction have been read on National Public Radio, performed at Symphony Space, and published by Esquire, GQ, Time, Men's Journal, Outside, The Wall Street Journal, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, and Tin House.Marra, Anthony: - ANTHONY MARRA is the winner of a Whiting Award, Pushcart Prize, and the Narrative Prize. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena won the National Book Critics Circle's inaugural John Leonard Prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction, as well as the inaugural Carla Furstenberg Cohen Fiction Award. Marra's novel was a National Book Award long list selection as well as a shortlist selection for the Flaherty-Dunnan first novel prize. In addition, his work has been anthologized in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012. He received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, where he teaches as the Jones Lecturer in Fiction. He has lived and studied in Eastern Europe, and now resides in Oakland, CA. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena is his first novel.Dahl, Roald: - Roald Dahl (1916-1990) was born in Llandaff, South Wales, and went to Repton School in England. He wrote the kids' classics Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach, among other famous works.Bradbury, Ray: - Ray Bradbury, recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2004 National Medal of Arts, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, died on June 5, 2012, at the age of 91 after a long illness. He lived in Los Angeles.Hitchcock, Alfred: - Born in London on August 13, 1899, Alfred Hitchcock worked for a short time in engineering before entering the film industry in 1920. He left for Hollywood in 1939, where his first American film, Rebecca, won an Academy Award for best picture. Hitchcock created more than 50 films, including the classics Rear Window, The 39 Steps and Psycho. Nicknamed the "Master of Suspense," Hitchcock received the AFI's Life Achievement Award in 1979. He died in 1980.Johnson, Josephine W.: - "Josephine W. Johnson (1910 - 1990) was the author of eleven books of fiction, poetry, and essays. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1935 at age 24 for her first novel, Now in November. Johnson was born June 20, 1910, in Kirkwood, Missouri. She attended Washington University, but did not earn a degree. She wrote Now In November while living in her mother's attic in Webster Groves, Missouri. She married Grant G. Cannon, editor in chief of the Farm Quarterly, in 1942. The couple moved to Iowa City, where she taught at the University of Iowa for three years, before they then moved to Hamilton County, Ohio."May, Julian: - "Julian Clare May (1931 - 2017) was an American science fiction, fantasy, horror, science and children's writer who also used several literary pseudonyms. She was best known for her Saga of Pliocene Exile (Saga of the Exiles in the United Kingdom) and Galactic Milieu Series books."Mieville, China: - China Miéville is the author of King Rat; Perdido Street Station, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the British Fantasy Award; The Scar, winner of the Locus Award and the British Fantasy Award; Iron Council, winner of the Locus Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award; Looking for Jake, a collection of short stories; and Un Lun Dun, his New York Times bestselling book for younger readers. He lives and works in London.Ullman, Allan: - Allan Ullman, who had been director of the former book and education division of The New York Times, died in 1982 at 73 years old. Mr. Ullman, a 1929 graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, was a book advertising salesman for The Times from 1935 until 1947, when he became promotion director of Random House Inc. In 1953 he became an executive of the Book-of-the-Month Club, a position he held until his appointment as head of The Times's book and education division. Mr. Ullman wrote several thrillers based on screen plays. These were ''Night Man, '' a novelization of a screenplay by Lucille Fletcher; ''Sorry, Wrong Number, '' based on a radio serialization by Lucille Fletcher, and ''Naked Spur, '' based on a screenplay by Rolfe Bloom. He also wrote ''The Plaid Peacock, '' a children's book, under the pseudonym Sandy Alan.Evenson, Brian: - Brain Evenson is the author of a dozen books of fiction, most recently the story collection A Collapse of Horses (Coffee House Press 2016) and the novella The Warren (Tor.com 2016). He has also recently published Windeye (Coffee House Press 2012) and Immobility (Tor 2012), both of which were finalists for a Shirley Jackson Award. His novel Last Days won the American Library Association's award for Best Horror Novel of 2009. His novel The Open Curtain (Coffee House Press) was a finalist for an Edgar Award and an International Horror Guild Award. Other books include The Wavering Knife (which won the IHG Award for best story collection), Dark Property, and Altmann's Tongue. He has translated work by Christian Gailly, Jean Frémon, Claro, Jacques Jouet, Eric Chevillard, Antoine Volodine, Manuela Draeger, and David B. He is the recipient of three O. Henry Prizes as well as an NEA fellowship. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the Critical Studies Program at CalArts.Steinbeck, John: - John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (February 27, 1902 to December 20, 1968) was a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and the author of Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden. Steinbeck dropped out of college and worked as a manual laborer before achieving success as a writer. His works often dealt with social and economic issues. His 1939 novel, The Grapes of Wrath, about the migration of a family from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl to California, won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. Steinbeck served as a war correspondent during World War II, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.Kafka, Franz: - Franz Kafka, (born July 3, 1883, Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now in Czech Republic]--died June 3, 1924, Kierling, near Vienna, Austria), German-language writer of visionary fiction whose works--especially the novel Der Prozess (1925; The Trial) and the story Die Verwandlung (1915; The Metamorphosis)--express the anxieties and alienation felt by many in 20th-century Europe and North America.Yu, E. Lily: - E. Lily Yu was born in Oregon and raised in New Jersey, where she attended several schools in the West Windsor-Plainsboro district, the now-defunct Governor's School of the Arts, and Princeton University. Her short stories have appeared in Clarkesworld, The Kenyon Review Online, Cicada, and The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, and have been shortlisted for the 2012 Hugo, Locus, Million Writers, and Nebula Awards.Brown, Fredric: - Fredric Brown was born in Cincinnati in 1906. Brown sold his first detective story in 1937, and by the early 1940s he was selling hundreds of stories to the detective and science fiction pulp magazines. His first novel, The Fabulous Clipjoint, was published in 1947 by Dutton after being rejected by twelve other publishers; it was a substantial success, winning the Edgar Award for best first novel. Several other successes followed: What Mad Universe (1949), a classic of science fiction, The Screaming Mimi (1949), which was adapted as a film starring Anita Ekberg, and Here Comes a Candle (1950), an experimental novel told in a variety of alternating media formats. Brown would continue to write prolifically throughout the 1950s, primarily in the mystery and science fiction genres.Fletcher, Lucille: - Lucille Fletcher was born on March 28, 1912 in Brooklyn, New York, USA as Violet Lucille Fletcher. She was a writer, known for Sorry, Wrong Number (1948), Lights Out (1946) and The Twilight Zone (1959). She was married to Douglass Wallop and Bernard Herrmann. She died on August 31, 2000 in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, USA.Kuttner, Henry: - "Henry Kuttner (7 April 1915 - 4 February 1958) was an American science fiction author. He worked on many stories in close collaboration with his wife, C. L. Moore most often using the joint pseudonym "Lewis Padgett." In 2007 their most famous collaboration "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" was adapted into a film The Last Mimzy."Cheever, John: - "John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 - June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and short story writer. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs. He is "now recognized as one of the most important short fiction writers of the 20th century." While Cheever is perhaps best remembered for his short stories (including "The Enormous Radio", "Goodbye, My Brother", "The Five-Forty-Eight", "The Country Husband", and "The Swimmer"), he also wrote four novels, comprising The Wapshot Chronicle (National Book Award, 1958), The Wapshot Scandal (William Dean Howells Medal, 1965), Bullet Park (1969), Falconer (1977) and a novella Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1982). A compilation of his short stories, The Stories of John Cheever, won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and a National Book Critics Circle Award, and its first paperback edition won a 1981 National Book Award. On April 27, 1982, six weeks before his death, Cheever was awarded the National Medal for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been included in the Library of America."Ritchie, Jack: - Some of Jack Ritchie's best known stories include "For All The Rude People", "Variations on a Scheme" and "Upside-Down World". Jack Ritchie, whose real name was John George Reitci, was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1922. After serving in the Pacific during World War Two, Ritchie took up writing and sold his first story, "Always the Season", to The New York Daily News in 1953. Over the next three decades, Ritchie contributed countless short stories to fiction magazines such as Alfred Hitchock's Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Manhunt. Jack Ritchie passed away in 1983 at the age of 61, but he left behind over three hundred published short stories that continue to be discovered and enjoyed to this day.Carroll, Sidney: - "Sidney Carroll (May 25, 1913 - November 3, 1988) was a film and television screenwriter. Although Carroll wrote most frequently for television, he is perhaps best remembered today for writing the screenplays for The Hustler (1961) for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and for A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966). He has also won Emmys for the documentaries The Louvre (1978) and China and the Forbidden City (1963). In 1957, Carroll won an Edgar Award, in the category Best Episode in a TV Series, for writing "The Fine Art of Murder", an installment of the ABC program Omnibus. He wrote the screenplays for the 1974 Richard Chamberlain television version of The Count of Monte Cristo as well as the original story for the Michael Caine heist movie Gambit. He continued to write for television until 1986. Carroll is also remembered for a remarkable story called None Before Me which Ray Bradbury included in the anthology Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow. It describes a lonely miser who becomes fascinated by a lavish dollhouse. Bradbury's book is an anthology of fantasy stories, and it is only in the last sentence that the story turns to fantasy, with rather startling results. He graduated from Harvard University in 1934."Furnas, J. C.: - J.C. Furnas, American author and social historian (1905--2001), published a noted social history of the U.S. The three-volume work included The Americans: A Social History of the United States, 1587-1914 (1969), Great Times: An Informal Social History of the United States, 1914-1929 (1974), and Stormy Weather (1977), covering the years 1929-45. Furnas, a prolific contributor to newspapers and magazines, wrote one of the most widely circulated articles in history, ". . . And Sudden Death," about driving fatalities and the need for automobile safety; some eight million reprints were issued after the article was originally published in Reader's Digest in August 1935. Furnas's autobiography, My Life in Writing: Memoirs of a Maverick, appeared in 1989. |