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McSweeney's Quarterly Concern
''Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern'' is an American literary journal, founded in 1998, typically containing short stories, reportage, and illustrations. Some issues also include poetry, comic strips, and novellas. ''The Quarterly Concern'' is published by McSweeney's based in San Francisco and it has been edited by Dave Eggers. The journal is notable in that it has no fixed format, and changes its publishing style from issue to issue, unlike more conventional journals and magazines. The first issue featured only works that had been rejected by other publications, but the journal has since begun publishing pieces written with McSweeney's in mind. History ''McSweeney's'' was founded in 1998 after Dave Eggers left an editing position at ''Esquire'', during the same time he was working on ''A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius''. ''McSweeney's'' is a sort of successor to Eggers' earlier magazine project '' Might'', although ''Might'' was focused on editorial content and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. His 2000 memoir, '' A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius'', became a bestseller and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Eggers is also the founder of several literary and philanthropic ventures, including the literary journal '' Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern'', the literacy project '' 826 Valencia'', and the human rights non-profit organisation '' Voice of Witness''. Additionally, he founded '' ScholarMatch'', a program that connects donors with students needing funds for college tuition. His writing has appeared in publications including ''The New Yorker'', ''Esquire'', and '' The New York Times Magazine''. Early life Eggers was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in a family with three siblings. His father, John K. Eggers (1936–1991), was an attorney, and his mother, Heidi McSweeney Eggers (1940–1992), was a schoolteacher. The family moved to Lake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Millhauser
Steven Millhauser (born August 3, 1943) is an American novelist and short story writer. He won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel '' Martin Dressler''. Life and career Millhauser was born in New York City, grew up in Connecticut, and earned a B.A. from Columbia University in 1965. He then pursued a doctorate in English at Brown University. He never completed his dissertation but wrote parts of '' Edwin Mullhouse'' and '' From the Realm of Morpheus'' (1986) in two separate stays at Brown. Between times at the university, he wrote ''Portrait of a Romantic'' at his parents' house in Connecticut in 1971-1976. His story "The Invention of Robert Herendeen" (in ''The Barnum Museum'') features a failed student who has moved back in with his parents; the story is loosely based on this period of Millhauser's life. Until the Pulitzer Prize, Millhauser was best known for his 1972 debut novel, ''Edwin Mullhouse''. This novel, about a precocious writer whose career ends abr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Vowell
Sarah Jane Vowell (born December 27, 1969) is an American historian, author, journalist, essayist, social commentator, and actress. She has written seven nonfiction books on American history and culture. Vowell was a contributing editor for the radio program ''This American Life'' on Public Radio International from 1996 to 2008, where she produced commentaries and documentaries. She was the voice of Violet Parr in the 2004 animated film ''The Incredibles'' and its 2018 sequel. Early life and education Sarah Vowell was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma on December 27, 1969. Her family moved to Bozeman, Montana when she was eleven. She has a fraternal twin sister, Amy. Vowell graduated from Bozeman High School. She earned a B.A. from Montana State University in 1993 in Modern Languages and Literature, and an M.A. in Art History from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999. Career Writing Vowell's articles have been published in ''The Village Voice'', ''Esquire'', ''Spin Mag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hodgman
John Kellogg Hodgman (born June 3, 1971) is an American author, actor, and humorist. In addition to his published written works, such as his satirical trilogy '' The Areas of My Expertise'', '' More Information Than You Require'', and '' That Is All'', he is known for his personification of a PC in contrast to Justin Long's personification of a Mac in Apple's " Get a Mac" advertising campaign, and for his work as a contributor on Comedy Central's ''The Daily Show with Jon Stewart''. His writings have been published in '' One Story'' (to which he contributed the debut story " Villanova"), ''The Paris Review'', '' McSweeney's Quarterly Concern'', ''Wired'' and ''The New York Times Magazine''. He has also contributed to ''This American Life'', CBC Radio One, and ''Wiretap''. His first book and accompanying audio narration, '' The Areas of My Expertise'', a satirical tongue-in-cheek almanac that contains almost no factual information, was published in 2005. His second book, '' Mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Marie Cox
Ana Marie Cox (born September 23, 1972) is a liberal American author, blogger, political columnist, and critic. The founding editor of the political blog '' Wonkette'', she was also the Senior Political Correspondent for MTV News, and conducted the "Talk" interviews featured in ''The New York Times Magazine'' from 2015 to 2017. In 2010, Cox held the position of Washington correspondent for '' GQ''. Cox has been a contributor for The Daily Beast since 2009. She previously worked at Air America Media. She was a lead blogger on U.S. politics for ''The Guardian'', until August 2014, and an editor at '' Mother Jones''. Early life Cox was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her family is from Texas and is of Scots-Irish descent. She attended Lincoln Southeast High School in Lincoln, Nebraska, where she wrote for the school's newspaper, ''The Clarion''. She graduated from the University of Chicago with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1994. She began graduate school at the Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Doerr
Anthony Doerr is an American author of novels and short stories. He gained widespread recognition for his 2014 novel '' All the Light We Cannot See'', which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Early life and education Doerr grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, He attended University School in Hunting Valley, an eastern Cleveland suburb, graduating in 1991. He majored in history at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine southwest of Augusta, graduating in 1995. He earned an MFA from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green. Career Doerr's first book was a collection of short stories called ''The Shell Collector'' (2002). His first novel, ''About Grace'', was released in 2004. His memoir, ''Four Seasons in Rome'', was published in 2007, and his second collection of short stories, ''Memory Wall,'' was published in 2010. Doerr's second novel, '' All the Light We Cannot See'', is set in occupied France during World War II and was published in 2014. He laboriously worked on writing it fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Steinberg (author)
Susan Steinberg is an American writer. She is the author of the short story collections ''The End of Free Love'' (FC2, 2003), ''Hydroplane'' (University of Alabama Press, 2006) and ''Spectacle'' (Graywolf Press, 2013). Her first novel ''Machine: A Novel'' (Graywolf, 2019), revolving around a group of teenagers during a single summer at the shore, employs experimental language and structure to interrogate gender, class, privilege, and the disintegration of identity in the shadow of trauma. Life Steinberg holds a B.F.A. in Painting from Maryland Institute College of Art and an M.F.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She teaches English at the University of San Francisco. She was a fiction editor at ''Pleiades'' from 2000 until 2006. Awards Susan Steinberg was the recipient of a 2012 Pushcart Prize for her short story "Cowboys." She was a James Merrill House Fellow in 2015. Reviews ''Publishers Weekly'' gave ''Machine'' a starred review, praising her "use o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Magazine Award
The National Magazine Awards, also known as the Ellie Awards, honor print and digital publications that consistently demonstrate superior execution of editorial objectives, innovative techniques, noteworthy enterprise and imaginative design. Originally limited to print magazines, the awards now recognize magazine-quality journalism published in any medium. They are sponsored by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) in association with Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and are administered by ASME in New York City. The awards have been presented annually since 1966. The Ellie Awards are judged by magazine journalists and journalism educators selected by the administrators of the awards. More than 300 judges participate every year. Each judge is assigned to a judging group that averages 15 judges, including a judging leader. Each judging group chooses five finalists (seven in Reporting and Feature Writing); the same judging group selects one of the fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Curtis
Rebecca Curtis (born January 10, 1974) is an American writer. She is the author of ''Twenty Grand and Other Tales of Love & Money'' (HarperCollins, 2007) and has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's, McSweeney's, NOON, N+1, and other magazines. Curtis received her bachelor's degree from Pomona College in Claremont, California. She also holds an MFA from Syracuse University and a Master's in English from New York University. In 2005, she received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award for emerging female writers, and won the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for fiction. Curtis is a lecturer in Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...'s Writing Program and is a contributor to '' Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art''. List of works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wells Tower
Wells Tower (born April 14, 1973) is an American writer of short stories, non-fiction, feature films and television. In 2009 he published his first short story collection, ''Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned'' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) to much critical acclaim. His short fiction has also been published in ''The New Yorker'', ''The Paris Review'', ''McSweeney's'', ''Vice'', ''Harper's Magazine'', '' A Public Space'', ''Fence'' and other periodicals. In 2022, he wrote the screenplay for the feature film ''Pain Hustlers'', starring Emily Blunt and directed by David Yates, which was bought by Netflix for $50 million. Early life, education, and early career Tower was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, but grew up in North Carolina. He played guitar in the punk band Hellbender for six years beginning his senior year of high school. He received a B.A. in anthropology and sociology from Wesleyan University and an M.F.A. in fiction writing from Columbia University's School of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philipp Meyer
Philipp Meyer (born May 3, 1974) is an American fiction writer, and is the author of the novels '' American Rust'' and '' The Son'', as well as short stories published in ''The New Yorker'' and other places. Meyer also created and produced the AMC television show based on his novel. Meyer won the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was the recipient of a 2010 Guggenheim FellowshipJohn Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Sit"Philipp Meyer Bio"/ref> and was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize. He won the 2014 Lucien Barrière prize in France and the 2015 Prix Littérature-Monde Prize in France. In 2017 he was named a Chevalier (Knight) in France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Meyer considers his literary influences to be "the modernists, basically Woolf, Faulkner, Joyce, Hemingway, Welty, etc." Various outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, and the UK's Telegraph have compared his writing to William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Cormac McCart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie (born September 8, 1947) is an American novelist and short story writer. She has received an award for excellence from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the short story form. Career Born in Washington, D.C., Beattie grew up in Chevy Chase, Washington, D.C., and attended Woodrow Wilson High School. She holds an undergraduate degree from American University and a master's degree from the University of Connecticut. She gained attention in the early 1970s with short stories published in ''The Western Humanities Review'', '' Ninth Letter'', the '' Atlantic Monthly'', and ''The New Yorker''. In 1976, she published her first book of short stories, ''Distortions'', and her first novel, ''Chilly Scenes of Winter'', which was later made into a film. Beattie's style has evolved over the years. In 1998, she published ''Park City'', a collection of old and new short stories, about which Christopher Lehman-Haup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
