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Mitch Berman
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Novels · Short Fiction ·
Hypermedia Projects · Articles & Reviews · Education
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Awards, Honors, Appearances
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Cloth, G.P. Putnam’s
Sons, 1987 Paper, Ballantine Books, 1988
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Pulitzer Prize
and PEN/Hemingway Award nominee,
1988,
by Putnam’s A New York Times New and Noteworthy Book
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The Red Shoes,
in progress. A complete reversal of the Hans Christian Andersen
story (and the classic film) in which the shoes in question are not ballet
slippers but size-24 basketball sneakers, and the protagonist is not a ballet
dancer but a young black NBA player, not an innocent victim of fate but a
complex Faustian character, tempted by fame and success, who makes all the
wrong moral choices. This is the tale
of his rapid rise, sudden fall, and final redemption that can take place only
when success is no longer possible. Synopsis here. |
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NOVELLA:
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Immoral Woman, The Gettysburg
Review,
Winter 1991 (published in different form as "Interview with an
Angel") Actress Ruan
Lingyu, the subject of Immoral Woman |
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ANTHOLOGIES:
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Pow Wow: American Short Fiction from Then to Now, Da Capo Press (an imprint of Perseus Press), Ishmael Reed and Carla
Blank, editors, 2009 [“The Poorest Boy in Chicago,” a story] Read the story “The Poorest
Boy in Chicago” Sensory Impact, a chapbook, with ZZ Packer and Elmaz Abinader (co-winners of 2007
Arts Council Silicon Valley Artists’ Grants (fiction), June 2007 |
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Sudden
Fiction (Continued),
a collection of short-short stories, Robert Shapard and James Thomas,
editors, W.W. Norton, 1996 (cloth and paper) [“To Be Horst,” a story] |
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The Male Body,
a collection of stories,
essays and poems,
Laurence Goldstein,
editor,
U. Michigan Press,
1994 (cloth) and 1995 (paper) [“To
Be Horst,”
a story] (not pictured) |
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Voices of the Xiled, an anthology of fiction by young
writers,
Doubleday,
1994 [“Wabi,” a story] |
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Will it Fly?, a student fiction
anthology,
U.C. Berkeley, 1978 [“My Truck,” a story] (not pictured) |
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BOOK EDITED: |
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Children of the Dragon: The Story of Tiananmen Square, a collection of
eyewitness accounts of and historical essays about the 1989 Chinese
student movement,
Collier/Macmillan,
1990 (cloth and paper) [co-editor] |
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“Billy Moscow and Me,” Descant, Vol. 139, Winter 2008 “The Death of Nu-Nu,” TriQuarterly, Fall 2000
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“A Walk in the Park,” Southwest
Review,
Fall 1999 |
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“A
Story of Many Titles,”
Agni,
Spring 1995 |
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“To
These Guys,” Witness, November 1994
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“The
Board,”
Confrontation,
Fall 1994 |
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“Voice-Over
for the Documentary Scenes from the
Films of Konkowsky as Recalled by the Executor of his Estate,” Boulevard, Fall 1994
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“The
Urbane,”
Brooklyn Review,
Summer 1994 |
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“Wabi,” Chicago Review, Fall 1993
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“To Be Horst,” Michigan
Quarterly Review,
Fall 1993 |
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“The Making of The
Making of the Illusion of Gravity,”
Boulevard,
Summer 1993 |
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“The
Day My Fingers Stopped,”
Antioch Review,
Fall 1992 |
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“The Poorest Boy in Chicago,” Southwest Review, Fall 1992
“Malmö,” Boulevard, Spring
1992 [Pushcart Prize nominee,
1993]
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“The
Red Planet’s
Lean Machine”
[not author’s
title],
Omni,
July 1990 |
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“A
Thousand Steps,”
DV-8 magazine,
1988 “Time
Capsule,”
extract from the novel,
Agni Review,
1986 |
SELECTED ARTICLES AND
REVIEWS: [nonfiction cited in these
books]
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“Orwell’s Bells,” eyewitness
account of China’s
1989 student movement,
Conjunctions,
May 1991 (coauthor: Susanne Lee) |
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“J.P.
Morgan Meets Kasparov,”
article on chess hustlers in Washington Square Park, Smart
magazine,
January 1991 |
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Selected for
Notable Sports Writing, Best American Sports Writing 1991 David
Halberstam, editor, Glenn Stout,
series editor “Getting
the Story on China,”
on 5 books of nonfiction,
Mother Jones,
July 1990 (coauthor: Susanne Lee) |
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“Is
China Still Hopeful?”
on Mu & Thompson’s
Crisis at Tiananmen,
The Nation,
1990 (coauthor: Susanne Lee) |
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“Sweets
from Harlan Ellison,”
on Ellison’s
Angry Candy,
Los Angeles Times Book Review,
1989 |
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“Bullets
in Beijing,”
eyewitness account of the massacre in Beijing, Village Voice, June 20, 1989
(coauthor: Susanne Lee) |
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“The
Bradbury Chronicles,”
on Ray Bradbury’s
The Toynbee Convector,
Los Angeles Times Book Review,
1988 |
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PROJECTS:
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Instant
Konkowsky,
2009 Wrote, designed and produced for CD-ROM and website an interactive
hypermedia fiction project including graphics, music, text and 40 minutes of video
(produced and directed all video segments with Susanne Lee;
programmer for CD-ROM: Eric Lee) See the full movie at
imdb.com – Instant Konkowsky at
the Internet Movie Database (imdb.com) |
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Founding
Editor-in-Chief of Hyper Hyper. The first hypermedia magazine to publish on
DVD (as well as on CD-ROM and website), Hyper
Hyper covers film, music, sculpture, comics, hypermedia projects, prose
and poetry Featured
artists include winners of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award,
three MacArthur “genius”
grants, two Grammies,
two Taiwan Golden Horses for Best Picture,
twelve Hong Kong Film Awards and two Cannes Film Festival Awards |
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BOOKS OF CRITICISM DISCUSSING THE NOVEL TIME CAPSULE: |
Jazz
Fiction:
A History and Comprehensive Guide,
by David Rife, Scarecow Press, 2007 In a Dark Time: The
Apocalyptic Temper in the American Novel of the Nuclear Age, by Joseph Dewey,
Purdue University Press, 1990
Science
Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, by Charles N.
Brown and William G. Contento, Locus Publications, 1988 |
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Galaxy Not So Far Away: Writers and Artists on Twenty-five Years of Star Wars, Glenn Kenney, ed., Holt Paperbacks, 2002
Dangerous Crossroads:
Popular Music, Postmodernism, and the Focus of Place,
by George Lipsitz, Haymarket Series (Verso), 1997 Sounding Off:
Music as Subversion/Resistance/Revolution, by
Ron Sakolsky and Fred Wei-Han Ho (editors), Autonomedia, 1996 Black Noise, by Tricia Rose,
Wesleyan University Press, 1994 |
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POETRY: |
Two haiku, Modern Haiku, June 1994 |
AWARDS, HONORS, APPEARANCES
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AWARDS AND HONORS Pulitzer Prize and
PEN/Hemingway Award nominations,
1987,
for Time Capsule (a novel) [submitted by G.P. Putnam’s Sons] Finalist in two
book categories (novel and story collection), Michigan Literary Fiction
Awards (open only to authors of previously published books of literary
fiction), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2007 Artist’s grant,
fiction, summer 2007, Arts Council Silicon Valley |
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Two
Pushcart Prize nominations, 2001, for “The Death of Nu-Nu” (a
story) Pushcart Prize Special Mention, 1996, for “To These Guys” (a story), The Pushcart Prize XX: 1996,
Bill Henderson, series ed.; Pushcart Prize nomination |
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Pushcart Prize
nomination,
1996,
for
“Voice-Over for the Documentary Scenes
from the Films of Konkowsky as Recalled by the Executor of his Estate,”
(a story) Pushcart Prize
nomination,
1994,
for “Wabi” (a story) Pushcart Prize
Special Mention, 1993-1994, for “The Poorest Boy in Chicago” (a story), The Pushcart Prize XVIII: 1993-1994, Bill
Henderson, series ed.; Pushcart Prize nomination |
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Pushcart Prize
nomination,
1993,
for “Malmö” (a story) |
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Selected for Notable Sports Writing, Best American Sports Writing 1991,
David Halberstam, ed., Glenn Stout, series ed., for Enemies: A Chess Story,” Los Angeles Times Magazine, October 7,
1990 |
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West Side YMCA
Open Voice Award,
1987, APPEARANCES |
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Selected
Readings: Bowery Poetry Club, The
Living Theatre, West Side YMCA, Biblios,
Ceres Gallery and Dixon Place
(New York City); Elliott Bay (Seattle); Cody’s (Berkeley); George Sand (Los
Angeles);
California Writers Club, Pomegranate Café, San Jose State University (San
Jose, California); Mountain View Performing Arts Center (Mountain View, CA);
Hungry Mind (Minneapolis);
B Dalton (New York);
Lincoln Center (Chicago);
Kramerbooks (Washington,
D.C.) |
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Master of
Ceremonies,
PEN American Center, Annual New Writers’
Reading,
New York,
February 1988 |
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Featured writer, PEN American
Center, Annual New Writers’
Reading,
New York,
October 1985 |
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M.F.A.,
Columbia University,
graduate writing program,
June 1985 |
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A.B.,
University of California at Berkeley,
social sciences,
June 1979 |
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