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Loggernaut
Loggernaut Reading Series is a reading series in Portland, Oregon founded in 2005. Each reading features three readers and a prompt to which they respond. It is currently curated by Jesse Lichtenstein, Erin Ergenbright, and Pauls Toutonghi. Past readers include Charles D'Ambrosio, Laila Lalami, Peter Rock, Justin Tussing, Tom Spanbauer, Tom Bissell, Carrie Brownstein, Paul Collins, Daniel Mason, Joshua Beckman, Joyelle McSweeney, and Jonathan Raymond. The series also publishes an online literary magazine with the same name. Its in-depth interviews with authors in various genres have included Paula Fox, Sam Lipsyte, Alice Notley, Jonathan Raban, David Means, Karen Tei Yamashita, James Longenbach, David Shields, Kimiko Hahn, and Pankaj Mishra. See also *List of literary magazines A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reading Series
A reading series is a recurring public literary event featuring writers reading from their work to a live audience. Some reading series are curated, some have themes, and some also feature music or other multimedia collaborations. Others simply focus on the act of listening to the written word, read out loud. Prominent reading series Australia Canada British Columbia * On Edge Reading Series. Vancouver. The Robson Reading Series Vancouver. * Short Line Reading Series, Vancouver New Brunswick The Lorenzo Reading Series Saint John. Ontario Harbourfront Centre Reading Series Toronto. Tree Reading Series Ottawa. The Reading Series at St. Jerome's Waterloo Great Britain England * African Writers' Evening Reading Series. London. Scotland Wales Ireland Riverbank Reading Series, Newbridge, Co. Kildare United States Arkansas Argenta Reading Series North Little Rock. Open Mouth Reading Series Fayetteville. California Rhapsodomancy Los Angeles. Speakeasy Reading Seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Fox
Paula Fox (April 22, 1923 – March 1, 2017) was an American author of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs. For her contributions as a children's writer she won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978, the highest international recognition for a creator of children's books. She also won several awards for particular children's books including the 1974 Newbery Medal for her novel '' The Slave Dancer''; a 1983 National Book Award in category Children's Fiction (paperback) for ''A Place Apart''; and the 2008 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for ''A Portrait of Ivan'' (1969) in its German-language edition ''Ein Bild von Ivan''. In 2011, she was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. The NYSW Hall of Fame is a project of the Empire State Center for the Book.. Her adult novels went out of print in 1992. In the mid nineties she enjoyed a revival as her adult fiction was championed by a new generation of American writers. Early life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pankaj Mishra
Pankaj Mishra FRSL (born 1969) is an Indian essayist and novelist. He was awarded the Windham–Campbell Prize for non-fiction in 2014. Early life and education Mishra was born in Jhansi, India. His father was a railway worker and trade unionist after his family had been left impoverished by post-independence land redistribution. Mishra graduated with a bachelor's degree in commerce from Allahabad University before earning his Master of Arts degree in English literature at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.Pankaj Mishra website He married Mary Mount, a London book editor, in 2005. Career In 1992, Mishra moved to , a |
Kimiko Hahn
Kimiko Hahn (born July 5, 1955) is an American poet and distinguished professor in the MFA program of Queens College, CUNY. Her works frequently deal with the reinvention of poetic forms and the intersecting of conflicting identities. Biography Hahn was born in Mount Kisco, New York on July 5, 1955. Her parents are both artists. Her mother, Maude Miyako Hamai, was a Japanese American from Maui, Hawaii; her father, Walter Hahn, was a German American from Wisconsin. They met in Chicago, where Walter was a friend of the notable African American author Ralph Ellison. Her sister is Tomie Hahn, a performer and ethnologist. Hahn grew up in Pleasantville, New York, and between 1964 and 1965, the Hahns later lived in Tokyo, Japan. As a teen, she became involved in the New York City Asian American movement of the 1970s. Zhou Xiaojing has commented that her racially mixed background influenced "her profound understanding of the politics of the body" as seen in her poetry (113). In the U.S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Longenbach
James Longenbach (Sept. 17, 1959 – July 29, 2022) was an American critic and poet. His early critical work focused on modernist poetry, namely that of Ezra Pound, W.B. Yeats, and Wallace Stevens, but came to include contemporary poetry as well. His book of criticism, ''The Resistance to Poetry'', has been described as a "compact and exponentially provocative book." at the journal ''''. Accessed 3 July 2006. Longenbach published six volumes of poetry including ''Earthling'' (2017), which was a finalist for the |
Karen Tei Yamashita
Karen Tei Yamashita ( ja, 山下てい ; born January 8, 1951) is a Japanese-American writer. Early life Yamashita was born on January 8, 1951, in Oakland, California. Career Yamashita is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she teaches creative writing and Asian American literature. Her works, several of which contain elements of magic realism, include novels ''I Hotel'' (2010), ''Circle K Cycles'' (2001), ''Tropic of Orange'' (1997), ''Brazil-Maru'' (1992), and '' Through the Arc of the Rain Forest'' (1990). Yamashita's novels emphasize the necessity of polyglot, multicultural communities in an increasingly globalized age, even as they destabilize orthodox notions of borders and national/ethnic identity. She has also written a number of plays, including ''Hannah Kusoh,'' ''Noh Bozos'' and ''O-Men'' which was produced by the Asian American theatre group, East West Players. Awards In 2009, Yamashita received the Chancellor’s A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Means
David Means (born October 17, 1961) is an American short story writer and novelist based in Nyack, New York. His stories have appeared in many publications, including '' Esquire'', ''The New Yorker'', and '' Harper's''. They are frequently set in the Midwest or the Rust Belt, or along the Hudson River in New York. Biography Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Means graduated from Loy Norrix High School in 1980. He received his bachelor's degree in 1984 from the College of Wooster, where his I.S. was "Bullfighting in Boston and other Poems". He went to graduate school at Columbia University, where he received an MFA in poetry. He has been a part-time member of the English department at Vassar College since 2001. Means is married with two children. Work ''Contemporary Authors'' writes: "With Means's second collection, ''Assorted Fire Events: Stories'', he was compared favorably to such esteemed writers as Raymond Carver and Alice Munro and praised by critics for his sharp prose." Jam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Raban
Jonathan Raban (born 14 June 1942, Hempton, Norfolk, England) is a British travel writer, critic, and novelist. He has received several awards, such as the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Royal Society of Literature's Heinemann Award, the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, and a 1997 Washington State Governor's Writer's Award. Since 1990 he has lived with his daughter in Seattle. In 2003, his novel Waxwings was long listed for the Man Booker Prize. Though he is primarily regarded as a travel writer, Raban's accounts often blend the story of a journey with rich discussion of the history of the water through which he travels and the land around it. Even as he maintains a dispassionate and often unforgiving stance towards the people he meets on his travels, he does not shirk from sharing his own perceived foibles and failings with the reader. Frequently, Raban's autobiographical accoun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Notley
Alice Notley (born November 8, 1945) is an American poet. Notley came to prominence as a member of the second generation of the New York School of poetry—although she has always denied being involved with the New York School or any specific movement in general. Notley's early work laid both formal and theoretical groundwork for several generations of poets; she is considered a pioneering voice on topics like motherhood and domestic life. Notley's experimentation with poetic form, seen in her books ''165 Meeting House Lane'', ''When I Was Alive'', '' The Descent of Alette'', and ''Culture of One'', ranges from a blurred line between genres, to a quotation-mark driven interpretation of the variable foot, to a full reinvention of the purpose and potential of strict rhythm and meter. She also experimented with channeling spirits of deceased loved ones, primarily men gone from her life like her father and her husband, poet Ted Berrigan, and used these conversations as topics and fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Raymond
Jonathan Raymond is an American writer living in Portland, Oregon. He is best known for writing the novels ''The Half-Life'' and ''Rain Dragon'', and for writing the short stories and novels adapted for the films ''Old Joy'', ''Wendy and Lucy'', and ''First Cow'', all directed by Kelly Reichardt, with whom he co-wrote the screenplays. As a screenwriter, Raymond wrote the original scripts for '' Meek's Cutoff'' and '' Night Moves.'' He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for his teleplay writing on the HBO miniseries, ''Mildred Pierce''. Early life and education Raymond grew up in Lake Grove, Oregon, and attended Lake Oswego High School. He graduated from Swarthmore College. He received his Master of Fine Arts, MFA from The New School in New York City.Douglas Perry, The Oregonian, Writer Jon Raymond sees his work realized in Oregon films, http://www.oregonlive.com/movies/index.ssf/2009/01/writer_jon_raymond_sees_his_wo.html Career Fiction He published his first novel, ''The Hal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Literature Websites
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Establishments In Oregon
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on each hand. In mathematics 5 is the third smallest prime number, and the second super-prime. It is the first safe prime, the first good prime, the first balanced prime, and the first of three known Wilson primes. Five is the second Fermat prime and the third Mersenne prime exponent, as well as the third Catalan number, and the third Sophie Germain prime. Notably, 5 is equal to the sum of the ''only'' consecutive primes, 2 + 3, and is the only number that is part of more than one pair of twin primes, ( 3, 5) and (5, 7). It is also a sexy prime with the fifth prime number and first prime repunit, 11. Five is the third factorial prime, an alternating factorial, and an Eisenstein prime with no imaginary part and real part of the for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
