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I'm a fiction writer, fiction editor, former staffer at The New Yorker, Forbes Inc, and New York Times Custom Publishing. My editorial work has appeared in a variety of magazines (all of the way from Maxim to Good Housekeeping). My copy writing has been featured in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Condé Nast Traveler.
I am the recipient of scholarships to Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (a difficult award to get) and Summer Literary Seminars in Russia.
I've been anthologized in four times. My nonfiction has been praised in The New York Times. My work as an editor was lauded in Esquire.
I have an MFA from Columbia University and a screenplay of mine was once optioned by a major film production company.
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Tag Archives: Guernica Magazine
Guernica’s second PEN World Voices event is tomorrow
It’s called “Leaving Home” and I’ll be introducing it. Austrian Cultural Forum: 11 East 52nd St. 5:30–6:30 p.m. With György Dragomán, Dinaw Mengestu, and Saša Stanišić; moderated by Irina Reyn Free and open to the public; reservations required. For reservations, … Continue reading
New fiction in Guernica magazine
Jane Wong’s “The Loves of Mao” examines the price of love, loyalty, and groupthink in Cultural Revolution China. Jane is in China right now on a Fulbright, and was a Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference waiter the year before I was. … Continue reading
Tomorrow night: Guernica and Pen World Voices
Guernica magazine is sponsoring two PEN World Voices events. Tuesday, April 29thCrisis Darfur: A Conversation with Mia Farrow and Bernard-Henri Lévy8 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française ($15/$10 students) Friday, May 2ndLeaving Home: With Dinaw Mengestu, György Dragomán, and Saša … Continue reading
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Tagged Guernica Magazine, Pen World Voices, Public Reading
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Guernica and Pen World Voices
Guernica magazine is sponsoring two PEN World Voices events. Tuesday, April 29thCrisis Darfur: A Conversation with Mia Farrow and Bernard-Henri Lévy8 p.m.: The French Institute, Alliance Française ($15/$10 students) Friday, May 2ndLeaving Home: With Dinaw Mengestu, György Dragomán, and Saša … Continue reading
New Fiction in Guernica Magazine
* Susan Daitch’s “All that is Solid” asks, what would it be like to work in the Empire State Building if/when another great ape decides to climb it? Susan read this story at the Brooklyn Public Library (a reading she … Continue reading
Why I’m voting for Barack Obama
Joel Whitney, co-editor-in-chief of Guernica, wrote the following on the Guernica blog…. “Liberal” and “conservative” have become highly problematic phrases, and–unsurprisingly–the presidency of George W. Bush has accelerated slippage in meaning. Conservatives these days aren’t seeking to conserve much of … Continue reading
Guernica author Susan Choi in P&W
As noted here before, Francisco Goldman guest-edited an issue of Guernica recently, which featured an excerpt from A Person of Interest, the new novel by Susan Choi. She’s interviewed in the current Poets & Writers The novel is due February … Continue reading
Francisco Goldman in Guernica
Years ago, I saw Francisco Goldman at the New York Public Library, in conversation with Junot Diaz. Goldman’s warmth and humor was everywhere that night, along with his intelligence and humor. When I asked him to be our guest fiction … Continue reading
Belated Posting: Publishers Weekly on Guernica
I’m been beaten-down and swamped by life’s bric-a-brac, which has made me unable to post. Or that’s what I tell myself. But I really have to put this one up: Rachel Deahl at Publishers Weekly conducted an interview with the … Continue reading
New Information on the Guernica Magazine Benefit/Hudson Cruise
In addition to the literary talent that will be aboard the Star of Palm Beach this Thursday (see earlier entry, just below), Leah Siegel will perform and the Vintage DJ will spin. The cruise around the Hudson is in celebration … Continue reading
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Tagged Benefit, Colbert Report, Frederic Tuten, Guernica Magazine, Melissa Bank, Oscar Hijuelos
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