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Believer Book Award
Believer Book Award is an American literary award presented yearly by '' The Believer'' magazine to novels and story collections, nonfiction books or essay collections, poetry collections, and, beginning in 2021 (awarding to books published in 2020), works of graphic narrative the magazine's editors thought were the "strongest and most under-appreciated" of the year. A shortlist and longlist are announced for each genre, along with reader's favorites, then a final winner is selected by the magazine's editors. The inaugural award was in 2005 for books published in 2004. Winners and shortlist The year below denotes when the books were published; the award is announced the following year. Thus below, the inaugural 2004 books were announced in early to mid-2005. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger () 2004 The shortlist was announced in February 2005. The winner was announced in March 2005. *Sam Lipsyte, ''Home Land'' *Michelle de Krets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Believer (magazine)
''The Believer'' is an American bimonthly magazine of interviews, essays, and reviews, founded by the writers Heidi Julavits, Vendela Vida, and Ed Park in 2003. The magazine is a five-time finalist for the National Magazine Award. Between 2003 and 2015, ''The Believer'' was published by McSweeney's, the independent press founded in 1998 by Dave Eggers. Eggers designed ''The Believer'' original design template. Park left ''The Believer'' in 2011, with Julavits and Vida continuing to serve as editors. In 2017, the magazine found a new home, moving from McSweeney's to the Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute, an international literary center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In October 2021, The UNLV College of Liberal Arts announced that the February/March 2022 issue of ''Believer'' would be the final issue published. UNLV then sold the magazine to digital marketing company Paradise Media, which in turn sold it back to its original publisher, McSweeney's. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesse Ball
Jesse Ball (born June 7, 1978) is an American novelist and poet. He has published novels, volumes of poetry, short stories, and drawings. His works are distinguished by the use of a spare style and have been compared to those of Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino. Early life and education Ball was born into a middle-class, English-speaking Irish-Sicilian family in Port Jefferson, New York, on Long Island. Ball's father worked in Medicaid; his mother worked in libraries. His brother, Abram, was born with Down's syndrome and attended a school some distance from the place where they lived. Ball attended Port Jefferson High School, and matriculated at Vassar College. Following Vassar, Ball attended Columbia University, where he earned an MFA and met the poet Richard Howard. Howard helped the then 24-year-old poet publish his first volume, '' March Book'', with Grove Press. Career In 2007 and 2008, Ball published ''Samedi the Deafness'' and the novella ''The Early Deaths of Lube ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samantha Hunt
Samantha Hunt (born May 15, 1971) is an American novelist, essayist and short-story writer. She is the author of ''The Dark Dark'' and ''The Unwritten Book'', published by Farrar, Straus, Giroux; ''The Seas'', published by MacAdam/Cage and Tin House; and the novels ''Mr. Splitfoot'' and '' The Invention of Everything Else'', published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Early life Hunt was born the youngest of six children in 1971. Her father was an editor, her mother is a painter. She moved in 1989 to attend the University of Vermont, where she studied literature, printmaking and geology. She received her MFA from Warren Wilson College, before moving to New York City in 1999. Career Books Hunt's debut novel, ''The Seas'', first published in 2004, is a magical-realist novel about a young girl in a Northern town who believes herself to be a mermaid. The book was voted one of Village Voice Literary Supplement's Favorite Books of 2004, and won the National Book Foundation award f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novel About My Wife
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the historica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Perkins (novelist)
Emily Justine Perkins (born 1970 in Christchurch) is a New Zealand author. Early life Perkins was born in Christchurch. She graduated from Toi Whakaari with a Diploma in Acting in 1989. She also studied writing at Victoria University of Wellington, Victoria University. Career Perkins first won attention in 1996 with her first collection of stories, ''Not Her Real Name and Other Stories''. Perkins' novels are ''Leave Before You Go'' (Picador (imprint), Picador, 1998), ''The New Girl'' (Picador, 2001), ''Novel About My Wife'' (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2008), and ''The Forrests'' (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012). A longtime resident of London, Perkins lived in Auckland where she was employed by both The University of Auckland as a creative writing tutor and AUT University as a lecturer. She now lives in Wellington, where she is a senior lecturer at the Victoria University of Wellington International Institute of Modern Letters. Perkins presented a television series about books calle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poets & Writers
Poets & Writers, Inc. is one of the largest nonprofit literary organizations in the United States serving poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers. The organization publishes a bi-monthly magazine called ''Poets & Writers Magazine'', and is headquartered in New York City. History In 1970, the director of New York’s famed 92nd Street YM-YWHA Poetry Center, Galen Williams, leveraged seed money from the New York State Council on the Arts to launch a new organization for writers that would provide them with fees for giving readings and teaching workshops. The organization began in an apartment on the fringe of the Theater District. Since that time, ''Poets & Writers'' has grown into one of the largest nonprofit organizations in the country for writers of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Poets & Writers cultivated new sources of revenue, enabling the organization to expand its programs and publications. Award-winning editorial an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Weisberg
Joseph Weisberg is an American television writer, producer, novelist, and school teacher. Weisberg is best known as the creator and showrunner of the FX TV series ''The Americans''. Career A 1987 graduate of Yale University, Weisberg became a CIA officer three years after graduation, and after a short career with the Agency, Weisberg taught at The Summit School, a private special education high school in Queens, New York until 2010 when he went on to pursue a career in television. One of his final projects at Summit School was helping students found the school newspaper, ''The Summit Sun''. Weisberg wrote episodes for TNT's alien invasion series '' Falling Skies'' and the DirecTV legal drama ''Damages''. He then created ''The Americans'', an FX series centering on two KGB sleeper agents, who pose as American citizens in Washington, D.C. during the 1980s. The Americans was executive-produced by Weisberg and '' Justified'' creator Graham Yost. In 2022, Weisberg co-created and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lydie Salvayre
Lydie Salvayre (born ''Lydie Arjona'' in 1948) is a French writer. Born in the south of France to Republican refugees from the Spanish Civil War, she went on to study medicine in Toulouse and continues to work as a practicing psychiatrist. She has been awarded the Prix Hermes, the Prix Décembre for her work, and the 2014 Prix Goncourt for '' Pas pleurer''. Works * ''La Déclaration'' (1990) * '' La Vie commune'' (1991) - translated into English as ''Everyday Life'' (Dalkey Archive Press 2006) * ''La Médaille'' (1993) - translated into English as ''The Award'' (Four Walls Eight Windows 1997) * ''La Puissance des mouches'' (1995) - translated into English as ''The Power of Flies'' (Dalkey Archive Press 2007) * ''La Compagnie des spectres'' (1997) - translated into English as ''The Company of Ghosts'' (Dalkey Archive Press 2006) * ''Quelques conseils aux élèves huissiers'' (1997) * ''La Conférence de Cintegabelle'' (1999) - translated into English as ''The Lecture'' (Dalkey A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miranda Mellis
Miranda Mellis is the author of ''Demystifications'', ''The Spokes'', ''None of This Is Real'', and ''The Revisionist''. Her fiction, reviews, and essays have appeared in various publications including ''The Believer's The Logger'', ''Harper’s'', '' Conjunctions'', the ''New York Times'', ''Fence'' and elsewhere. She has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction, and has been an Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts and the Millay Colony. She co-founded and co-edited The Encyclopedia Project and once played in a band called My Invisible. She teaches at Evergreen State College. She has taught in the MFA programs at California College of the Arts California College of the Arts (CCA) is a private art school in San Francisco, California. It was founded in Berkeley, California in 1907 and moved to a historic estate in Oakland, California in 1922. In 1996 it opened a second camp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alain Mabanckou
Alain Mabanckou (born 24 February 1966) is a novelist, journalist, poet, and academic, a French citizen born in the Republic of the Congo, he is currently a Professor of Literature at UCLA. He is best known for his novels and non-fiction writing depicting the experience of contemporary Africa and the African diaspora in France."Alain Mabanckou, l'enfant noir" "G.L.", ''Le Nouvel Observateur'', 19 August 2010. He is among the best known and most successful writers in the , [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Generation Loss
Generation loss is the loss of quality between subsequent copies or transcodes of data. Anything that reduces the quality of the representation when copying, and would cause further reduction in quality on making a copy of the copy, can be considered a form of generation loss. File size increases are a common result of generation loss, as the introduction of artifacts may actually increase the entropy of the data through each generation. Analog generation loss In analog systems (including systems that use digital recording but make the copy over an analog connection), generation loss is mostly due to noise and bandwidth issues in cables, amplifiers, mixers, recording equipment and anything else between the source and the destination. Poorly adjusted distribution amplifiers and mismatched impedances can make these problems even worse. Repeated conversion between analog and digital can also cause loss. Generation loss was a major consideration in complex analog audio and video ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Hand
Elizabeth Hand (born March 29, 1957) is an American writer. Life and career Hand grew up in Yonkers and Pound Ridge, New York. She studied drama and anthropology at The Catholic University of America. Since 1988, Hand has lived in coastal Maine, the setting for many of her stories, and as of 2017 lives in Lincolnville. She also lives part-time in Camden Town, London which has been the setting for ''Mortal Love'' and the short story "Cleopatra Brimstone". Hand's first story, "Prince of Flowers", was published in 1988 in ''Twilight Zone'' magazine, and her first novel, ''Winterlong'', was published in 1990. With Paul Witcover, she created and wrote DC Comics' 1990s cult series ''Anima''. Hand's other works include ''Aestival Tide'' (1992); ''Icarus Descending'' (1993); '' Waking the Moon'' (1994), which won the Tiptree Award and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award; the post-apocalyptic novel '' Glimmering'' (1997); contemporary fantasy ''Black Light'' (1999), a ''New York Times'' Notabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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