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Jim Lewis (born 1963, in Cleveland, Ohio, raised in New York and London) is an American novelist.
He has published four novels, ''Sister'' (published by Graywolf in 1993), ''Why the Tree Loves the Ax'' (published by Crown in 1998), and ''The King is Dead'' (published by Knopf in 2003). All three have been published in the UK as well, and individually translated into several languages, including French, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Greek. His fourth novel, entitled ''Ghosts of New York,'' was published by WVU Press in April, 2021.
In addition to his novels, he has written extensively on the visual arts, for dozens of magazines, from ''Artforum'' and ''Parkett to ''Harper's Bazaar'';'' and contributed to 30 artist monographs, for museums around the world, among them, ''
Published writings
Selected writings in ''The New York Times''
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Jim Lewis (born 1963, in Cleveland, Ohio, raised in New York and London) is an American novelist.
He has published four novels, ''Sister'' (published by Graywolf in 1993), ''Why the Tree Loves the Ax'' (published by Crown in 1998), and ''The King is Dead'' (published by Knopf in 2003). All three have been published in the UK as well, and individually translated into several languages, including French, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Greek. His fourth novel, entitled ''Ghosts of New York,'' was published by WVU Press in April, 2021.
In addition to his novels, he has written extensively on the visual arts, for dozens of magazines, from ''Artforum'' and ''Parkett to ''Harper's Bazaar'';'' and contributed to 30 artist monographs, for museums around the world, among them, ''Richard Prince
Richard Prince (born 1949) is an American painter and photographer. In the mid-1970s, Prince made drawings and painterly collages that he has since disowned. His image, ''Untitled (Cowboy)'', a rephotographing of a photograph by Sam Abell and ...
'' at The Whitney Museum of American Art, ''Jeff Koons
Jeffrey Lynn Koons (; born January 21, 1955) is an American artist recognized for his work dealing with popular culture and his sculptures depicting everyday objects, including balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-Surface fi ...
'' at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, '' Christopher Wool'' at The Los Angeles Museum of Art, and a '' Larry Clark'' retrospective at the Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
He has also written criticism and reportage for a wide range of publications, among them ''The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...
'', ''Slate'', ''Rolling Stone'', ''GQ'', and ''Vanity Fair''. His essays have appeared in ''Granta
''Granta'' is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom whose mission centres on its "belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story’s supreme ability to describe, illuminate and ma ...
'', and ''Tin House
''Tin House'' is an American book publisher based in Portland, Oregon, and New York City. Portland publisher Win McCormack originally conceived the idea for a literary magazine called ''Tin House'' in the summer of 1998. He enlisted Holly MacArt ...
'', among others.
He has collaborated with the photographer Jack Pierson on a small book called ''Real Gone'' (published by Artspace Books in 1993), and with Cecily Brown on the book ''The English Garden,'' (KARMA, 2015).
He currently lives in Austin, Texas.
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Published writings
Selected writings in ''The New York Times''
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