Tag Archives: Guggenheim Fellowship

Mary Karr

Posted on January 23, 2012 by daysofyore

Mary Karr is a seventh-generation Texan and a New York Times bestselling author of three memoirs and four books of poetry. In 1995, she sparked the memoir revolution with The Liars’ Club, winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First … Continue reading →

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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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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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Nick Flynn

Posted on June 6, 2011 by daysofyore

Nick Flynn has worked as a ship’s captain, an electrician, and a case-worker with homeless adults. His two most recent books, both released in 2011, are a collection of poems, The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands, and a … Continue reading →

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Jennifer Egan

Posted on April 19, 2011 by daysofyore

Jennifer Egan is one of the finest American writers working today. Her most recent book, A Visit From the Goon Squad, won the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and the 2011 … Continue reading →

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David Shields

Posted on October 25, 2010 by daysofyore

David Shields is the author of ten books of fiction and nonfiction, including Heroes (1984), Handbook for Drowning: A Novel in Stories (1992), Remote: Reflections on Life in the Shadow of Celebrity (1996), Black Planet: Facing Race during an NBA … Continue reading →

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Karyn Olivier

Posted on September 13, 2010 by daysofyore

Karyn Olivier is a visual artist born in Trinidad and Tobago who grew up, and still lives, in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has been exhibited widely in the United States and abroad, including the Gwangju and Busan Biennials (Korea), … Continue reading →

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Yotam Haber

Posted on August 9, 2010 by daysofyore

Yotam Haber is a modern composer born in Holland who is a dual citizen of Israel and the United States. He has won countless awards, including a 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2007-2008 Frederic A. Juilliard/ Walter Damrosch Rome Prize, … Continue reading →

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Thomas Roma

Posted on August 2, 2010 by daysofyore

Thomas Roma is an American photographer born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., who has spent several decades exploring the passage of life as lived in his home stomping grounds with a camera he built himself. Roma has published eleven books … Continue reading →

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Lisa Sanditz

Posted on July 19, 2010 by daysofyore

Lisa Sanditz is an American painter whose work has been exhibited in countless group and solo shows around the United States and Europe. She was recently featured in “Nine Walls,” curated by Isaac Mizrahi at the Julie Saul Gallery in … Continue reading →

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