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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
Cinema’s Beautiful Blowhard
I wrote an essay recommending Samuel Fuller’s work. A portion of what I said: “A Fuller film careers between drama and melodrama; it stars scene-chewing actors; is low budget, and has the subtlety of a machete. A Fuller film can … Continue reading
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Tagged By Meakin Armstrong, Guernica, Samuel Fuller, writing
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PEN World Voices and Guernica: A recap
Novelist Claire Messud (who was guest-editor at Guernica recently) led a panel discussion on women, diversity, and literature. I’ll let another Guernica writer Lorraine Adams sum up the event. Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Editing, Fiction, Fiction Editor, Guernica, Public Reading
Tagged Claire Messud, Guernica, guernicamag.com, Lorraine Adams, Pen World Voices, Public Reading
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Norman Rush: “Mating”
It took some convincing to get me to read Norman Rush. I expected his first novel, Mating, to be an obvious cross between Saul Bellow and a Victorian romance. It took me a long time to realize this: that’s not such a bad combination. Continue reading
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Jakob Dylan: “Women and Country”
“Because of a former roommate, I shut the door on Jakob Dylan. While my roommate played Dylan’s hit, “One Headlight” repeatedly, I escaped to my bedroom where I could listen to something else. She sang random bars from his songs all day. She shattered the few quiet moments in the apartment to blather on about Dylan’s “cuteness.” When she wasn’t doing any of that, she was comparing him favorably with Bob Dylan, saying that his father couldn’t sing or write a single good song —not a one.” Continue reading
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Claire Messud in Guernica
It’s been busy at Guernica. I’ve been working on a Claire Messud guest-edited section. It’s fantastic and suggest you read. The comments section is burning up. . . Women make up 80 percent of the fiction reading audience in this … Continue reading
Guernica at Page Turner
November 14th, I’ll be at Page Turner, The Asian American Literary Festival. I’ll be introducing Guernica Guest fiction editors Amitava Kumar and V.V. Ganeshananthan, who will be conducting a reading, along with the writers who are featured in this week’s … Continue reading
The Caine Prize, E.C., and Me
I wrote about the the recent Caine Prize for African Writing award for the Guernica blog. Spoiler Alert (not really, one could hardly be a surprised, I’d imagine, by what I wrote): I say that my favorite thing about the … Continue reading
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New fiction on Guernica, from Patricia Engel
Patricia Engel’s “Dia” explores the tension that can exist between “just friends” of the opposite sex. I find him sitting on a plastic lounge chair by the hotel pool. I give a little wave and he stands. We kiss on … Continue reading
New Fiction on Guernica, by Justo Arroyo
“The Question,” by Justo Arroyo translated from Spanish by Seymour Menton “Such fiery pupils—your immediate reaction is to avoid them. But the old man knows it, and he keeps looking at you until you have no other choice but to … Continue reading
New fiction on Guernica–from Marie Myung-Ok
It’s called “A Meeting,” which is Korean slang for “group date.” Marie Myung-Ok Lee is the author of the novel, Somebody’s Daughter. Her fiction has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Witness, and TriQuarterly and has been short-listed for the O. … Continue reading
