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Mitch Berman
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Featured fiction:
“The Death of Nu-Nu” (TriQuarterly) Featured nonfiction:
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Novels
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Short Fiction · Articles
& Reviews · Multimedia ·
Education · Awards,
Honors, Appearances
NOVELS:
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Cloth, G.P. Putnam’s
Sons, 1987 Illustration:
Bryn Barnard Paper, Ballantine
Books, 1988
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Time Capsule, 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
A Novel |
The Red Shoes,
in progress. A reversal of the Hans Christian Andersen
story (and the classic film) in which the shoes are not ballet slippers but
size-24 basketball sneakers, and the protagonist is not a ballet dancer but a
young black 7-foot NBA player, not an innocent victim of fate but a complex
Faustian antihero who, tempted by fame, makes all the wrong choices. Herein the tale of his rapid rise, sudden
fall, and final redemption 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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McSweeney's / Litquake 2011 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] |
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Voices of the Xiled, an anthology of
fiction by young writers,
Doubleday,
1994 [“Wabi,” a story] |
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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; reprinted in Temenos, 2001 |
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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,”
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“Wabi,”
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“To Be Horst,” |
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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,”
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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
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Original Essay, McSweeney's
/ Litquake Barbary Coast Award to Ishmael Reed, McSweeney's, October 2011 |
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“Orwell’s Bells,” eyewitness
account of |
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“J.P.
Morgan Meets Kasparov,”
article on chess hustlers in |
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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 |
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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 Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Ed.
Jeffrey W. Hunter. Vol. 139. |
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“Bullets
in Beijing,” eyewitness account of the crackdown on the
Chinese student movement, cover piece for the 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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Instant
Konkowsky, 2009 Wrote, designed and produced for CD-ROM and website an interactive
multimedia 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 multimedia magazine to
publish on 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,
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Call and recall: Hybridity,
mobility, and dialogue between jazz and hip hop, Jesse L. MacBurnie
Stewart, |
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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, |
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POETRY: |
Two haiku, Modern Haiku, June 1994 |
AWARDS, HONORS, APPEARANCES
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AWARDS 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 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 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 Pushcart Prize
nomination,
1993,
for “Malmö” (a story) 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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APPEARANCES |
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Selected
Readings: City University of Hong
Kong, Kubrick Bookstore, Book Attic, Joyce is Not
Here, Fringe Club (Hong Kong); 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 1991 |
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A.B.,
University of California at Berkeley,
social sciences,
June 1979 |
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