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Monkeybicycle
''Monkeybicycle'' is a literary journal with both print and Web versions. It was founded in 2002 in Seattle, Washington, by Steven Seighman. He was intent on publishing both well-known writers and those who might not have been heard of yet, but should be. He enlisted the help of writer Shya Scanlon and together ran both versions of the journal, as well as created a very successful monthly reading series in downtown Seattle. In 2007, ''Monkeybicycle'' became an imprint of Dzanc Books. Monkeybicycle.net The ''Monkeybicycle'' Web site is updated twice each week. Since its inception in 2002, it has gained quite a following. With features like One-sentence stories, videos and audio podcasts, the site receives between 350–400 unique visitors per day. Past Web site editors have included Matthew Simmons, Andrew Ervin, and Eric Spitznagel. In 2007, one of monkeybicycle.net's stories, "Beginnings of Ten Stories About Ponies," by Wendy Molyneux, was selected for inclusion in the Dave Egg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Ervin
Andrew Ervin (1971) is an American writer whose debut 2010 novella collection ''Extraordinary Renditions'' (Coffee House Press) was selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the Best Books of 2010. His 2015 debut novel ''Burning Down George Orwell’s House'' (Soho Press) was listed as an Editor's Choice in the New York Times Book Review. He currently lives in Philadelphia. Biography Andrew Ervin was born in Media, Pennsylvania. He has lived in Budapest, Hungary, Illinois, and Louisiana and now resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is married to the flutist Elivi Varga. Education and career Ervin holds a BA in Philosophy and Religion (Goucher College), an MS in English (Illinois State University) and MFA in Fiction (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). He Served as the inaugural Southern Review Resident Scholar at Louisiana State University. He was previously the Kratz Writer-in-Residence at Goucher College and a 2016-2017 Digital Studies Fellow at Rutgers University-Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Gill
Sean Gill is an Emmy-nominated American writer and film editor. Education Gill is a graduate of Oberlin College and Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School. He studied privately with Juan Luis Buñuel. Television Gill's television work includes editing episodes of '' Queer Eye'', '' 12 Hours With'', '' Martha Knows Best'', ''Martha Gets Down and Dirty'', ''The Real Housewives of Atlanta'', ''The Real Housewives of New Jersey'', ''Ink Master'', '' Ink Master: Angels'', '' Tattoo Redo'', '' America's Top Dog'', ''White House Christmas 2022'', as well as documentary specials for ''National Geographic'' and The Weather Channel. For his work on ''Queer Eye'', he was nominated for the 2022 Emmy Award for Outstanding Picture Editing for a Structured Reality or Competition Program and the 2022 American Cinema Editors "Eddie" Award for Best Edited Non-Scripted Series. Theater Gill has written several plays produced in New York City, including ''Go-Go Killers!'' (2009), ''Stage Blood Is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dzanc Books
Dzanc Books is an American independent press book publisher. It is a non-profit 501(c)(3) private foundation. Michelle Dotter is publisher and editor-in-chief. Background Dzanc Books was founded in 2006 by Steven Gillis, a lawyer turned novelist, and Dan Wickett, a prolific on-line book reviewer. They operated from their homes, near Detroit, Michigan. Mission Dzanc pursues literary fiction and eBooks. They published their own list of independent 20 writers to watch in response to ''The New Yorkers list of "20 Under 40", which they felt was too establishment-oriented. Former staff Former staff includes author Matt Bell as senior editor. Authors Published authors include Roy Kesey, Yannick Murphy, Terese Svoboda, Allison Amend, Jeff Parker, Peter Selgin, Laura van den Berg, Anne Valente, Robert Coover, Lance Olsen, Joseph McElroy, Robert Lopez, Evan Lavender-Smith, Jen Michalski, Dawn Raffel, J. Robert Lennon, Adam Klein, Okey Ndibe, Mary Biddinger, David Galef, Aim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Journal
A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry, and essays, along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters. Literary magazines are often called literary journals, or little magazines, terms intended to contrast them with larger, commercial magazines. History ''Nouvelles de la république des lettres'' is regarded as the first literary magazine; it was established by Pierre Bayle in France in 1684. Literary magazines became common in the early part of the 19th century, mirroring an overall rise in the number of books, magazines, and scholarly Academic journal, journals being published at that time. In Great Britain, critics Francis Jeffrey, Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham and Sydney Smith founded the ''Edinburgh Review'' in 1802. Other British reviews of this period included the ''Westminster Review'' (1824), ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Boudinot
Ryan Boudinot is an American writer. He was born on November 6, 1972, in Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands. He went to Evergreen State College (B.A) and Bennington College (M.FA). He is the author of several books, including ''The Octopus Rises,'' ''Blueprints of the Afterlife'', ''The Littlest Hitler: Stories'', and ''Misconception''. The latter three have been nominated for the Washington State Book Award. ''Blueprints of the Afterlife'' was also nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award and has been published in translation in the Czech Republic and Spain. He edited ''Seattle, City of Literature,'' an anthology featuring essays by over thirty writers. Boudinot was an MFA advisor at Goddard College from 2007-2015. Following his departure from the position, he wrote an article on his experience, which received widespread criticism for being overly harsh. Boudinot worked for Amazon as a customer service representative from 1998–2000, during a period when the company expand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Loory
Ben Loory (born July 11, 1971) is an American short fiction writer. He is the author of the collections ''Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day'' (Penguin, 2011) and ''Tales of Falling and Flying'' (Penguin, 2017), as well as a picture book for children, ''The Baseball Player and the Walrus'' (Dial Books for Young Readers, 2015). Loory’s stories have appeared in over one hundred journals and magazines including ''The New Yorker, BOMB Magazine,'' ''Fairy Tale Review,'' and ''TriQuarterly'', and been heard on This American Life and Selected Shorts. He lives and teaches short story writing in Los Angeles. Education Raised in Dover, New Jersey, Loory attended Dover High School. Loory graduated from Harvard University ''magna cum laude'' in 1993 with a BA in Visual & Environmental Studies, and earned an MFA in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute in 1996. Short fiction and other writing Loory's first collection, ''Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day'', wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Kennedy (author)
Dan Kennedy is an American writer, and original developer of The Moth storytelling podcast in New York. Biography Kennedy's writing first gained attention at the McSweeney's literary website and quarterly journal. He started performing on stage with New York-based storytelling collective The Moth in 2000, going on to spearhead the development and release of The Moth podcast in 2008, serving as one of the podcast’s hosts from 2008-2020. Wired Magazine celebrated the 10th anniversary of The Moth podcast in a profile outlining its rise from two thousand subscribers to forty-six million downloads per year. In 2019, the podcast was downloaded 71 million times. In 2022, Kennedy returned for onepisode (#773) to discuss creating and launching The Moth Podcast. With a background in New York advertising and the music industry, Kennedy moved into writing and consulting in film and television, selling series pilots to HBO and F/X and working on feature film assignments at Amblin, Paramoun ... [...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] |
Michael Hickins
Michael Hickins (born May 1, 1961) is an American fiction writer, journalist, and news editor. He works at Oracle Corp. as director of strategic communications, and used to be as an editor at the ''Wall Street Journal'' and founding editor of ''CIO Journal''. His debut work, ''The Actual Adventures of Michael Missing'', was published in 1991 and featured a cover design by Chip Kidd. ''Kirkus Reviews'' called the anthology "a strange collection" and "a weird and unconvincing debut." Hickins has been a speaker and panelist at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium The MIT Sloan School of Management (MIT Sloan or Sloan) is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT Sloan offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs, as ... in 2013 and 2014. Bibliography * ''The Actual Adventures of Michael Missing'' (1991) * ''Blomqvist'' (1996) * ''Lion Heartbreak'' (1998) * ''The Silk Factory. Finding Threads of My ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Grosz
Peter Grosz is an American actor and television writer. He is most recognizable for appearing in Sonic Drive-In's "Two Guys" commercials, in which he appears as the straight man in a double act with improvisational comedian T. J. Jagodowski until it was replaced by families in 2020. Early life and education Grosz was born in New York City, and was raised in Scarsdale, New York. Grosz is Jewish. He attended Northwestern University, graduating in 1996. One of his college roommates during that time was fellow actor Seth Meyers. Career From 2002 to 2012 and 2014 on, Grosz has starred as one half of the "Two Guys" for the Sonic Drive-In commercials alongside fellow improviser T. J. Jagodowski. In 2020, it was reported that Sonic's commercials would be going in a different direction, but that the "Two Guys" series would continue to be part of the chain's advertising in some way. Lori Abou Habib, Sonic's Chief Marketing Officer, said that the commercials are "a huge part of our ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Fingerman
Bob Fingerman (born August 25, 1964) is an American comic book writer/artist born in Queens, New York, who is best known for his comic series '' Minimum Wage'' ( Fantagraphics Books). Career In 1984, while still a student at New York City’s School of Visual Arts, he produced work for Harvey Kurtzman's short-lived young readers anthology ''Nuts!'' and signed a contract to produce a series of comical parodies of the Italian comic series '' RanXerox'' exclusively for the European market, including France’s ''L'Écho des savanes'' and ''Comics USA'' and Spain’s ''El Vibora''. After he made friends with guys working at Forbidden Planet who were forming a ska band, The Toasters, he drew the front and back cover for their first LP in 1985. Fingerman worked in the disparate fields of children's satire, pornography and illustration, producing work regularly for ''Cracked'' magazine, ''Screw'', ''Penthouse'', ''Hot Talk'', '' Heavy Metal'', '' National Lampoon'', ''High Times'', the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pia Z
''Pia Z'' is a studio album by the American singer-actress Pia Zadora, released in 1989. It was produced by Narada Michael Walden. Zadora supported the album with a North American tour. "Heartbeat of Love" was released as the first single. "If You Were Mine" was issued as a promotional single only, and included "I Wanna Be Your Woman" as the second track. "If You Were Mine" was a modest adult contemporary hit. Critical reception ''The Washington Post ''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large nati ...'' wrote that Zadora "has a credible and adaptable if lightweight voice, but in her naked appeal for popularity, she doesn't sound like anyone so much as she sounds like everyone." Track listing All tracks composed by Liz Jackson and Narada Michael Walden; except where indicated # "H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
