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Amy Scholder
Amy Scholder is an American literary editor and documentary filmmaker known for amplifying the stories of marginalized writers, artists, musicians, and activists. Biography Early years Born in San Francisco, Scholder grew up in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, California. She attended Tufts University for two years, then graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from University of California, Berkeley. Career Scholder began her career as an editor at City Lights Books in San Francisco in 1985. She added to its list by publishing books by Karen Finley, Gil Cuadros, Rebecca Brown (author), Rebecca Brown, Leslie Dick, Carla Harryman, Marguerite Duras, George Bataille, and Laure (Colette Peignot). While at City Lights, she also created an imprint of books for the nonprofit ArtSpace in San Francisco. Authors/artists include David Wojnarowicz , Dennis Cooper, and Nayland Blake. In 1991 she edited with Ira Silverberg the anthology ''High Risk: Writing on Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Editor
A literary editor is an editor in a newspaper, magazine or similar publication who deals with aspects concerning literature and books, especially reviews. '''', Sunday 17 December 2006. A literary editor may also help with editing books themselves, by providing services such as , , and |
Ira Silverberg
Ira Silverberg is an American editor and consultant to writers, artists, publishers, funders, and non-profit arts organizations. He is a member of the adjunct faculty of the Columbia University School of the Arts, MFA Writing Program. Education Silverberg graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1980 and went to what was then known as the CUNY Urban Legal Studies Center, a six-year BA/JD Program run by W. Haywood Burns, designed to teach lawyers to serve underserved urban communities, in collaboration with New York Law School. It became the model for the CUNY Law School and CCNY developed the undergraduatHonors Program in Legal Studies at The Colin Powell School He left New York City for Lawrence, Kansas where he attended the University of Kansas from 1982-1984. In 1985, he returned to New York and attended Hunter College. He dropped out of college at 22 years old, 18 credits shy of a degree, when he became the Publicity Director of Grove Press, hired by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Bornstein
Katherine Vandam Bornstein (born March 15, 1948) is an American author, playwright, performance artist, actor, and gender theorist. In 1986, Bornstein started identifiying as gender non-conforming and has stated "I don't call myself a woman, ''and'' I know I'm not a man" after having been assigned male at birth and receiving sex reassignment surgery. Bornstein now identifies as non-binary and uses the pronouns they/them and she/her. Bornstein has also written about having anorexia, being a survivor of PTSD and being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. Biography Early life Bornstein was born in Asbury Park, New Jersey, into an upper middle-class Conservative Jewish family of Russian and Dutch descent. Bornstein studied Theater Arts with John Emigh and Jim Barnhill at Brown University (Class of '69). Bornstein joined the Church of Scientology, becoming a high-ranking lieutenant in the Sea Org, but later became disillusioned and formally left the movement in 1981. Borns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cookie Mueller
Dorothy Karen "Cookie" Mueller (March 2, 1949 – November 10, 1989) was an American actress, writer, and Dreamlander who starred in many of filmmaker John Waters' early films, including ''Multiple Maniacs'', ''Pink Flamingos'', ''Female Trouble'', and ''Desperate Living''. Early life Cookie Mueller grew up with her parents Frank Lennert Mueller (d. 1984) and Anne (Sawyer) Mueller (d. 1995, aged 82) in the Baltimore suburbs in a house near the woods, a mental hospital and railroad tracks. She was nicknamed Cookie as a baby: "Somehow I got the name Cookie before I could walk. It didn't matter to me, they could call me whatever they wanted." During her childhood Cookie, along with her parents, brother Michael, and sister Judy, took road trips across the country: In 1959, with eyes the same size, I got to see some of America traveling in the old green Plymouth with my parents, who couldn't stand each other, and my brother and sister, who loved everyone. ookie's brother Michael a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Preston (American Author)
John Preston (December 11, 1945 in Medfield, Massachusetts – April 28, 1994 in Portland, Maine) was an American author of gay erotica and an editor of gay nonfiction anthologies. Life and works He grew up in Medfield, Massachusetts, later living in a number of major American cities before settling in Portland, Maine in 1979. A writer of fiction and nonfiction, dealing mostly with issues in gay life, he was a pioneer in the early gay rights movement in Minneapolis. He helped found one of the earliest gay community centers in the United States, edited two newsletters devoted to sexual health, and served as editor of '' The Advocate'' in 1975. He was the author or editor of nearly fifty books, including such erotic landmarks as ''Mr. Benson'' and ''I Once Had a Master and Other Tales of Erotic Love''. Other works include ''Franny, the Queen of Provincetown'' (first a novel, then adapted for stage), ''The Big Gay Book: A Man's Survival Guide for the Nineties'', ''Personal Dispatches: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rikki Ducornet
Rikki Ducornet (; born Erica DeGre; April 19, 1943) is an American writer, poet, and artist. Her work has been described as “linguistically explosive and socially relevant,” and praised for “deploy ngtactics familiar to the historical avant-garde, including an emphasis on gnosticism, cosmology, diablerie, bestiary, eroticism, and revolution, to produce an astounding body of work, cogent and ethical in its beauty and spirit.” Biography Rikki Ducornet was born in Canton, New York. Gerard DeGré, Ducornet's father, was a professor of social philosophy, and her mother Muriel hosted community-interest programs on radio and television. Ducornet was raised in a multicultural household as her father was Cuban and her mother was Russian-Jewish. Ducornet's father encouraged her to read books by authors such as Albert Camus and Lao Tzu, and to pursue an exploration of knowledge. ''Alice in Wonderland'' was an especially formative book, and inspired her 1993 novel ''The Jade Cabinet' ... [...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] |
Darius James
Darius James (aka Dr. Snakeskin, born 1954) is an African-American author and performance artist. He is the author of ''That's Blaxploitation: Roots of the Baadasssss 'Tude (Rated X by an All-Whyte Jury)'', an unorthodox, semi-autobiographical history of the blaxploitation film genre, and '' Negrophobia: An Urban Parable'', a satirical novel written in screenplay form. His work is influenced by the Voodoo religion. James lives in Hamden, Connecticut. He appeared in the 2006 film ''Black Deutschland''. He co-wrote and appeared in a feature-length film released in 2013, ''The United States of Hoodoo''. Books * ''That's Blaxploitation: Roots of the Baadasssss 'Tude (Rated X by an All'Whyte Jury)'' * ''Negrophobia: An Urban Parable'' * ''Voodoo Stew'' (German/English), Verbrecher Verlag Berlin, 2004 * ''Froggie Chocolate's Christmas Eve / Froggie Chocolates Weihnachtsabend'' (German/English), Verbrecher Verlag Berlin, 2005 See also *Closet screenplay Related to closet drama, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akilah Nayo Oliver
Akilah may refer to *''Akilah!'', 1972 Jazz album by Melvin Sparks *Akilah Hospital, Hospital in Jordan *Akilah Institute, College in Rwanda *Azra Kohen (born 1979), Turkish writer known as Akilah See also *Akhila, a given name *Akila (other) *Akilam, an Ayyavazhi text *Akilan Akilandam, better known by his pen name Akilan, was an Indian writer and novelist who wrote in Tamil. He was attracted by Gandhian philosophy during his school days and he discontinued his college education at Pudukkottai to join the freedom st ..., a Tamil author *'' Akeelah and the Bee'', a 2006 American drama film {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darryl Pinckney
Darryl Pinckney (born 1953 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American novelist, playwright, and essayist. Early life Pinckney grew up in a middle-class African-American family in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he attended local public schools. He was educated at Columbia University in New York City. Career Some of Pinckney's first professional works were theatre texts, plays developed in collaboration with director Robert Wilson. These included the produced works of '' The Forest'' (1988) and ''Orlando'' (1989). Pinckney returned to theatre with '' Time Rocker'' (1995). His first novel was ''High Cotton'' (1992), a semi-autobiographical novel about "growing up black and bourgeois" in 1960s America. His second novel was ''Black Deutschland'' (2016), about a young gay black man in Berlin in the late 1980s, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Pinckney is also a frequent contributor to the ''New York Review of Books'', ''Granta'', ''Slate'', and ''The Nation''. He frequently explo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison (born April 11, 1949) is an American writer from South Carolina whose writing focuses on class struggle, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism and lesbianism. She is a self-identified lesbian femme. Allison has won a number of awards for her writing, including several Lambda Literary Awards. In 2014, Allison was elected to membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Biography Early life Dorothy E. Allison was born on April 11, 1949, in Greenville, South Carolina, to Ruth Gibson Allison, who was 15 years old at the time. Her father died when she was a baby. Her single mother was poor, working as a waitress and cook. Ruth eventually married, but when Dorothy was five, her stepfather began to abuse her sexually. This abuse lasted for seven years. At the age of 12, Allison told a relative about it, who told her mother. Ruth forced her husband to leave the girl alone, and the family remained together. The respite did not last long, as the stepfather resumed the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
