Category Archives: Writers

Deborah Eisenberg

Posted on December 12, 2011 by daysofyore

Deborah Eisenberg is the author of four collections of stories, Transactions in a Foreign Currency, Under the 82nd Airborne, All Around Atlantis, and Twilight of the Superheroes, brought together in 2010 in The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg, which won … Continue reading →

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Jaimy Gordon

Posted on December 5, 2011 by daysofyore

Jaimy Gordon took the reading world by surprise when she won the 2010 National Book Award for Lord of Misrule. The novel, which chronicles the colorful life at a bottom-level horse racetrack, was published by a tiny press after being … Continue reading →

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Binnie Kirshenbaum

Posted on November 21, 2011 by daysofyore

Binnie Kirshenbaum is a writer whose work vibrates with a strong voice and strong characters. She has written two short story collections and six novels, including On Mermaid Avenue, Pure Poetry, Hester Among the Ruins and, most recently, The Scenic … Continue reading →

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Timothy Donnelly

Posted on October 17, 2011 by daysofyore

Timothy Donnelly is a wordsmith whom The New Yorker has called “the barreller-in-chief of the younger generation of American poets.” He has published two collections of poetry, Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit (2003) and The Cloud Corporation … Continue reading →

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David Grossman

Posted on October 10, 2011 by daysofyore

David Grossman is one of Israel’s most prominent writers and a much-loved literary figure in the world— his books have been translated into over thirty languages and have won countless international awards. He has written a number of works of … Continue reading →

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Margo Jefferson

Posted on September 26, 2011 by daysofyore

Margo Jefferson is a Pulitzer Prize winning cultural critic who wrote about books, theater, and the arts for The New York Times for thirteen years. Her writing has also appeared in Bookforum, Salon, The Nation, The Washington Post, New York … Continue reading →

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Stacy Schiff

Posted on September 12, 2011 by daysofyore

Stacy Schiff is one of our time’s greatest portrait painters— with words. Her first biography, Saint-Exupéry, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the same prize that her second work, Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), won. A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, … Continue reading →

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Adam Haslett

Posted on August 29, 2011 by daysofyore

Adam Haslett came crashing onto the literary scene in 2002 with his debut story collection, You Are Not a Stranger Here, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, was named a Time best book … Continue reading →

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Carole Maso

Posted on August 15, 2011 by daysofyore

Carole Maso is a writer who carves out her own language space not in relation to established forms or traditions, but to the particular tale she needs to tell. The result often demands a reader willing to yield to the … Continue reading →

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Luc Sante

Posted on August 8, 2011 by daysofyore

Luc Sante is a writer best known for his exciting and evocative rendition of the roiling early years of New York in Low Life, illuminating the lives of the hucksters and swindlers who stalked the streets of the Lower East … Continue reading →

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