| McSweeney's Issue 47 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) Contributor(s): Eggers, Dave (Editor), Jackson, Shirley (Contribution by), Polan, Jason D. (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 193807386X ISBN-13: 9781938073861 Publisher: McSweeney's OUR PRICE: $21.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2014 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 814 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.2" W x 8.6" (1.15 lbs) 300 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Jackson, Shirley: - Shirley Jackson, 1916-1965, one of the most brilliant and influential authors of the twentieth century, is widely acclaimed for her stories and novels of the supernatural, including the well-known short story "The Lottery" and the best-selling novel "The Haunting of Hill House."Polan, Jason D.: - Jason Polan is an artist living in New York. His work has been exhibited all over the united states, Europe, Africa, and Asia. His work has appeared in the New York Times, ARTnews, the Believer, and the New Yorker.Bauer, Alex Ryan: - Alex Ryan Bauer studied comparative literature at the University of Iowa.Davis, Kathryn: - Kathryn Davis is the author of seven novels, the most recent of which is Duplex (2013). Her other books are Labrador (1988), The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf (1993), Hell: A Novel (1998), The Walking Tour (1999), Versailles (2002), and The Thin Place (2006). She has received a Kafka Prize for fiction by an American woman, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2006, she won the Lannan Foundation Literary Award. She is the senior fiction writer on the faculty of The Writing Program at Washington University.Peixoto, Jose Luis: - José Luís Peixoto was born in 1974 in the Portuguese region of Alentejo. A poet, playwright, and novelist, he has received numerous awards for his writing. Published and acclaimed in more than twelve languages, The Implacable Order of Things won the José Saramago Prize in 2001.Simpson, Mona: - Mona Simpson worked as a journalist before moving to New York to attend Columbia's MFA program. During graduate school, she published her first short stories in Ploughshares, The Iowa Review and Mademoiselle. She stayed in New York and worked as an editor at The Paris Review for five years while finishing her first novel. Anywhere But Here. After that, she wrote The Lost Father, A Regular Guy and Off Keck Road. Her work has been awarded several prizes: a Whiting Prize, a Guggenheim, a grant from the NEA, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, a Lila Wallace Readers Digest Prize, a Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, a Pen Faulkner finalist, and most recently a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She worked ten years on My Hollywood. "It's the book that took me too long because it meant too much to me," she says. Mona lives in Santa Monica with her two children and Bartelby the dog.Coady, Lynn: - Lynn Coady is a Canadian novelist, journalist and TV writer, originally from Cape Breton Island, NS and now living in Toronto. Her collection of short stories Hellgoing won the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her 2011 novel, The Antagonist, was shortlisted for the 2011 Giller Prize and published in the US by Alfred A. Knopf . She has published six books of fiction and her work has appeared in the UK, Germany, Holland and France. Lynn has worked as a story editor on the TV series Orphan Black and a writer on Season Two of the HBO Canada series Sensitive Skin.Greenman, Ben: - Ben Greenman is a New York Times-bestselling author who has written both fiction and nonfiction. He is the author of several acclaimed works of fiction, including the short story collections What He's Poised to Do, Superbad, A Circle Is a Balloon and Compass Both, and the novels Superworse, Please Step Back, and The Slippage. He is the co-author of the bestselling Mo' Meta Blues with Questlove, the bestselling I Am Brian Wilson with Brian Wilson, Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard on You? with George Clinton, and more. His fiction, essays, and journalism have appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times, Washington Post, Paris Review, Zoetrope: All Story and elsewhere, and have been widely anthologized. His most recent book is Emotional Rescue, a collection of music essays; his latest book is Dig If You Will The Picture, a meditation on the life and career of Prince.Cotter, Bill: - Bill Cotter was born in Dallas in 1964. He lives in Austin with the poet and storyteller Annie La Ganga, and labors as a dealer in rare books. His first novel, Fever Chart, was published by McSweeney's in 2009.McGuane, Thomas: - Thomas McGuane has written ten novels, including the National Book Award-nominated "Ninety-Two in the Shade," as well as six nonfiction essay collections and two short-story collections. His work has won numerous awards, including the Rosenthal Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and has been anthologized in the "Best American Stories," "Best American Essays," and "Best American Sporting Essays."Rowe, Josephine: - Josephine Rowe is the author of two story collections, How a Moth Becomes a Boat and Tarcutta Wake, and a new novel: A Loving, Faithful Animal.Bigos, Justin: - Justin Bigos is the author of the poetry collection Mad River, as well as the chapbook Twenty Thousand Pigeons (iO, 2014). His poetry, fiction, and nonfiction has appeared in publications including New England Review, Ploughshares, Indiana Review, The Seattle Review, The Collagist, and The Best American Short Stories 2015. Justin cofounded and coedits Waxwing, a literary journal dedicated to promoting the cultural diversity of American literature, alongside international voices in translation. He received his MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College.Odenkirk, Ben: - Actor, producer and writer Bob Odenkirk is known for playing the character Saul Goodman on the award-winning television drama 'Breaking Bad' and its spinoff, 'Better Call Saul.' |