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Gigantic (magazine)
''Gigantic'' is an American literary journal that publishes fiction, art and interviews. In particular, it focuses on short prose or flash fiction. Print issues also have included a special poetry section entitled "The Seizure State," curated by celebrated American poet Joe Wenderoth. It publishes original work online at its website and once a year in a print format. ''Gigantic'' was founded in 2008 by four writers living in New York City. Format ''Gigantic'' is known for changing its layout and design significantly with each issue, as well as a focus on affordable pricing. Issues have ranged in price from 3 to 10 dollars. The layout is designed by Erin Grey West. Issue 1 The first issue was printed on newsprint in a large fold-out format. It included a centerfold painting by Nathaniel Russell as well as work and dialogues with Malcolm Gladwell, Shane Jones, Ed Park, Tao Lin, Deb Olin Unferth, Gary Shteyngart and others. Issue 2 Issue 2 was titled "Gigantic America" and focuse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literature
Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed. Literature is a method of recording, preserving, and transmitting knowledge and entertainment, and can also have a social, psychological, spiritual, or political role. Literature, as an art form, can also include works in various non-fiction genres, such as biography, diaries, memoir, letters, and the essay. Within its broad definition, literature includes non-fictional books, articles or other printed information on a particular subject.''OED'' Etymologically, the term derives from Latin ''literatura/litteratura'' "learning, a writing, grammar," originally "writing formed with letters," from ''litera/littera'' "letter". In spite of this, the term has also been applied to spoken or s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lydia Millet
Lydia Millet (born December 5, 1968) is an American novelist. Her 2020 novel ''A Children's Bible'', was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and named one of the ten best books of the year by the ''New York Times Book Review''. She has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the ''Los Angeles Times'' Book Prize. ''Salon'' wrote of Millet's work, "The writing is always flawlessly beautiful, reaching for an experience that precedes language itself." Biography Millet was born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where she attended the University of Toronto Schools. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in interdisciplinary studies, with highest honors in creative writing, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master's degree from Duke University. Formerly married to Kieran Suckling, Millet lives in Tucson, Arizona with her two children. She holds a master's in environmental policy from Duke University's Nicholas School o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Indiana
Gary Indiana (b. 1950 as Gary Hoisington in Derry, New Hampshire) is an American writer, actor, artist, and cultural critic. He served as the art critic for the ''Village Voice'' weekly newspaper from 1985 to 1988. Indiana is best known for his classic American true-crime trilogy, ''Resentment, Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story,'' and ''Depraved Indifference'', chronicling the less permanent state of “depraved indifference” that characterized American life at the millennium's end. In the introduction to the recently re-published edition of ''Three Month Fever'', critic Christopher Glazek has coined the phrase ''deflationary realism'' to describe Indiana's writing, in contrast to the magical realism or hysterical realism of other contemporary writing. Plays Indiana has written, directed and acted in a dozen plays, mostly during the early 1980s. Performed in small New York City venues like Mudd Club, Club 57, the Performing Garage and the backyard of Bill Rice's Eas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Hecht
Julie Hecht is a contemporary American fiction writer specializing in interlacing short stories. Personal life Hecht has purposely revealed very little about her personal life. According to her publisher's website, she lives in the winter on the east end of Long Island, New York, and spends summer and fall in Massachusetts. In an interview with ''Publishers Weekly'', Hecht said that the good reaction she got from her fellow schoolchildren gave her the idea to keep writing. "It's nice to look at a group of people and see them all smiling and laughing," she said. Hecht is somewhat reclusive about publicity, rarely giving interviews and avoiding the internet. She prefers to write by hand, sitting on a couch, and faxing her work back and forth to a typist for editing. Awards *O. Henry Award for "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You" (1979, third prize) Bibliography *'' Do the Windows Open?'' (1997) *'' Was This Man a Genius?: Talks with Andy Kaufman'' (2001) *'' The Unprofessionals: A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis (born July 15, 1947) is an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and translator from French and other languages, who often writes short (one or two pages long) short stories. Davis has produced several new translations of French literary classics, including '' Swann’s Way'' by Marcel Proust and ''Madame Bovary'' by Gustave Flaubert. Early life and education Davis was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, on July 15, 1947. She is the daughter of Robert Gorham Davis, a critic and professor of English, and Hope Hale Davis, a short-story writer, teacher, and memoirist. Davis initially "studied music—first piano, then violin—which was her first love." On becoming a writer, Davis has said, "I was probably always headed to being a writer, even though that wasn't my first love. I guess I must have always wanted to write in some part of me or I wouldn't have done it." She attended high school at The Putney School, Class of 1965. She studied at Barnard College, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Duvert
Tony Duvert (July 2, 1945 – August 2008) was a French writer and philosopher. In the 1970s he achieved some renown, winning the Prix Médicis in 1973 for his novel '' Paysage de Fantaisie''. Duvert's writings are notable both for their style and core themes: the celebration and defence of pedophilia, and criticism of modern child-rearing. In the 1970s attitudes to sexual liberation and child sexuality allowed Duvert to express himself publicly. However, when attitudes altered markedly in the 1980s, he was left feeling frustrated and oppressed. Youth and early writings Tony Duvert was born on 2 July 1945 in Villeneuve-le-Roi, Val-de-Marne. As a child, he was shy and withdrawn, but later wrote that his sex life began when he was eight. Expelled from school at twelve for carrying out sexual acts with other boys, he was sent by his parents to a psychiatrist for treatment: the methods used he described as brutal and humiliating. He ran away from home and attempted suicide. In 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Etgar Keret
Etgar Keret ( he, אתגר קרת, born August 20, 1967) is an Israeli writer known for his short stories, graphic novels, and scriptwriting for film and television. Personal life Keret was born in Ramat Gan, Israel in 1967. He is a third child to parents who survived the Holocaust. Both of his parents are from Poland. He studied at Ohel Shem high school, and at the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Programme for Outstanding Students of Tel Aviv University. He lives in Tel Aviv with his wife, Shira Geffen, and their son, Lev. He is a lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva, and at Tel Aviv University. He holds dual Israeli and Polish citizenship. Literary career Keret's first published work was ''Pipelines'' (, ''Tzinorot'', 1992), a collection of short stories which was largely ignored when it came out. His second book, '' Missing Kissinger'' (, ''Ga'agu'ai le-Kissinger'', 1994), a collection of fifty very short stories, caught the attention of the general p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Walser (writer)
Robert Walser (15 April 1878 – 25 December 1956) was a German-speaking Swiss writer. Walser is understood to be the missing link between Heinrich von Kleist and Franz Kafka. As writes Susan Sontag, "at the time f Walser's writing it was more likely to be Kafka ho was understoodthrough the prism of Walser." For example, Robert Musil once referred to Kafka's work as "a peculiar case of the Walser type." Walser was admired early on by Kafka and writers such as Hermann Hesse, Stefan Zweig, and Walter Benjamin, and was in fact better known during his lifetime than Kafka or Benjamin were known in theirs. Nevertheless, Walser was never able to support himself based on the meager income he made from his writings, and he worked as a copyist, an inventor's assistant, a butler, and in various other low-paying trades. Despite marginal early success in his literary career, the popularity of his work gradually diminished over the second and third decades of the 20th century, making it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynne Tillman
Lynne Tillman (born January 1, 1947) is a novelist, short story writer, and cultural critic. She is currently Professor/Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English at the University at Albany and teaches at the School of Visual Arts' Art Criticism and Writing MFA Program. Tillman is the author of six novels, five collections of short stories, two collection of essays, and two other nonfiction books. She writes a bi-monthly column "In These Intemperate Times" for Frieze Art Magazine. Career Fiction Tillman's novels include: ''American Genius, A Comedy'' (2006); ''No Lease on Life'' (1998), which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Award in Fiction; ''Cast in Doubt'' (1992); ''Motion Sickness'' (1991); and ''Haunted Houses'' (1987). In March 2018, her sixth novel ''Men and Apparitions'' was published by Soft Skull Press. ''Absence Makes the Heart'' (1990) is Tillman's first collection of short stories. ''The Broad Picture'' (1997) is a collection of Tillman's essa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Lish
Gordon Lish (born February 11, 1934 in Hewlett, New York) is an American writer. As a literary editor, he championed many American authors, particularly Raymond Carver, Barry Hannah, Amy Hempel, Rick Bass, and Richard Ford. He is the father of the novelist Atticus Lish. Early life and family Lish was raised in Hewlett, New York, on Long Island; his father was the founder and primary partner in Lish Brothers, a millinery firm. During his formative years, he suffered from extreme psoriasis and was often ostracized by his peers. He attended Phillips Academy but left without graduating following an altercation with an antisemitic classmate in 1952. While briefly institutionalized in Westchester County, New York, following an adverse reaction to the hormone ACTH (used in psoriasis treatment), he developed a friendship with noted poet Hayden Carruth. Following his release, he took a job as a radio broadcaster for WEIL in New Haven, Connecticut, under the pseudonym of Gordo Lockwood a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Cohen (writer)
Joshua Aaron Cohen (born September 6, 1980) is an American novelist and story writer, best known for his works '' Witz'' (2010), ''Book of Numbers'' (2015), and ''Moving Kings'' (2017). Cohen is the recipient of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, for his novel '' The Netanyahus'' (2021). Life Cohen grew up in Atlantic City, New Jersey, spent his summers in Cape May, New Jersey and went to school at Trocki Hebrew Academy before transferring to Mainland Regional High School. He currently lives in Red Hook, Brooklyn. He reads both German and Hebrew and has translated works in both languages into English. Work and career He attended the Manhattan School of Music and studied composition. Cohen does not have an MFA, and has expressed disdain for the degree. In 2017, Granta Magazine named him to its decennial list of the Best Young American Writers. Cohen lived in various cities in Eastern Europe between 2001 and 2006, working as a journalist. Cohen's works have received acclaim. ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diane Williams (author)
Diane Williams (born 1946) is an American author, primarily of short stories. She lives in New York City and is the founder and editor of the literary annual ''NOON''. She is the author of eleven books, including ''How High? — That High'' (Soho Press, 2021), for which she wainterviewed by Merve Emrein ''The New Yorker''. Her book ''The Collected Stories of Diane Williams'' was published by Soho Press in 2018. Life Williams taught at Bard College, Syracuse University and The Center for Fiction in New York City. Career A profile of Williams appeared in ''The New York Times'' in 2018, coincident with the publication of ''The Collected Stories of Diane Williams''. Rumaan Alam wrote: "Erudite, elegant and stubbornly experimental. For any writer, an omnibus collection is a triumph. To see years of Ms. Williams’ confounding fictions collected in so hefty a volume is like seeing snowflakes accrue into an avalanche." Elsewhere, Williams' collected works was featured in ''The New Yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
