MITCH BERMAN

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EDUCATION

M.F.A., Columbia University, graduate writing program, June 1985

A.B., University of California at Berkeley, social sciences, June 1979

PUBLICATIONS

NOVEL:

	Time Capsule G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1987 (cloth) Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Hemingway Award nominee, 1987, by Putnam’s
	A New York Times New and Noteworthy Book Authors and critics on Time Capsule Ballantine Books, 1988 (paper)
NOVELLA:	Immoral Woman, The Gettysburg Review, Winter 1991 (published in different form as "Interview with an Angel")  Actress Ruan Lingyu, the subject of Immoral Woman
ANTHOLOGIES:	Pow Wow: American Short Fiction from Then to Now, Da Capo Press (an imprint of Perseus Press), Ishmael Reed and Carla Blank, editors, forthcoming, February 2009 [“The Poorest Boy in Chicago,” a story] Sensory Impact, with ZZ Packer and Elmaz Abinader (the three winners of the 2007 Arts Council Silicon Valley Artists’ Grants (fiction), May 2007
	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] Read the story “To Be Horst”
	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) Read the story “To Be Horst”
	Voices of the Xiled, an anthology of fiction by young writers, Doubleday, 1994 [“Wabi,” a story] Read the story “Wabi”
	Will it Fly?, a student fiction anthology, U.C. Berkeley, 1978 [“My Truck,” a story] (not pictured)
BOOK EDITED:
	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; several editors]

HYPERMEDIA PROJECTS

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SELECTED SHORT FICTION:

	“Billy Moscow and Me,” Descant, Vol. 139, Winter 2008 “The Death of Nu-Nu,” TriQuarterly, Fall 2000 Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 2001; selected as one of the 100 Distinguished Short Stories of 2000 in Best American Short Stories 2001, Barbara Kingsolver, ed., Katrina Kenison, series ed.
	“A Walk in the Park,” Southwest Review, Fall 1999
	“A Story of Many Titles,” Agni, Spring 1995
	“To These Guys,” Witness, November 1994
	“The Board,” Confrontation, Fall 1994
	“The Making of The Making of the Illusion of Gravity,” Boulevard, Fall 1994
	“The Urbane,” Brooklyn Review, Summer 1994
	“Wabi,” Chicago Review, Fall 1993 [Pushcart Prize nominee, 1994]
	“To Be Horst,” Michigan Quarterly Review, Fall 1993
	“Voice-Over for the Documentary Scenes from the Films of Konkowsky as Recalled by the Executor of his  Estate,” Boulevard, short fiction based on original screenplay, Summer 1993
	“The Day My Fingers Stopped,” Antioch Review, Fall 1992
	“The Poorest Boy in Chicago,” Southwest Review, Fall 1992 [Pushcart Prize nominee, 1993] [selected for Special Mention in The Pushcart Prize XVIII: 1993-1994, Bill Henderson, series ed.] “Malmö,” Boulevard, Spring 1992 [Pushcart Prize nominee, 1993]
	“The Red Planet’s Lean Machine” [not author’s title], Omni, July 1990
	“A Thousand Steps,” DV-8 magazine, 1988 “Time Capsule,” extract from the novel, Agni Review, 1986 “Save The Floating CD Gardens of the Emperor^®!  — or  — Entry in the ‘Comments or Further Explanation’ Blank on Form 384-B (Application for Permission to Do Business as a Category 3 (Royalty Class) Retail Entity) (Please Complete Your Reply in Three Sentences or Less),” unpublished, 2006

SELECTED ARTICLES AND REVIEWS:

“From Be-Bop to Hip-Hop,” profile of jazz drummer Max Roach, Los Angeles Times Magazine, September 15, 1991 (coauthor:  Susanne Lee)

“Orwell’s Bells,” eyewitness account of China’s 1989 student movement, Conjunctions, May 1991 (coauthor:  Susanne Lee)

“J.P. Morgan Meets Kasparov,” article on chess hustlers in Washington Square Park, Smart magazine, January 1991

“Enemies: A Chess Story,” profile of world chess champions Kasparov and Karpov, Los Angeles Times Magazine, October 7, 1990 (reprinted, Melbourne Age, January 1991)

“Getting the Story on China,” on 5 books of nonfiction, Mother Jones, July 1990 (coauthor:  Susanne Lee)

“Is China Still Hopeful?” on Mu & Thompson’s Crisis at Tiananmen, The Nation, 1990 (coauthor:  Susanne Lee)

“Very Quiet. Too Quiet,” on Harrison Salisbury’s Tiananmen Diary, The Nation, October 30, 1989 (coauthor:  Susanne Lee)

“Sweets from Harlan Ellison,” on Ellison’s Angry Candy, Los Angeles Times Book Review, 1989

“Bullets in Beijing,” eyewitness account of the massacre in Beijing, Village Voice, June 20, 1989 (coauthor:  Susanne Lee)

“The Bradbury Chronicles,” on Ray Bradbury’s The Toynbee Convector, Los Angeles Times Book Review, 1988

POETRY:

Two haiku, Modern Haiku, June 1994

HYPERMEDIA PROJECTS:

Founding Edtor-in-Chief of Hyper Hyper, premiere issue 2009: the first hypermedia magazine to publish on DVD (as well as on CD-ROM and website), and the first publication to feature film, music, sculpture, comics and hypermedia projects as well as fiction and poetry Artists featured in the premiere issue of Hyper Hyper 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 major awards from Cannes Instant Konkowsky, 2006 Wrote, designed and coproduced for CD-ROM and website an interactive hypermedia fiction project including graphics, music, text and 40 minutes of video (coproducer and codirector of all video segments:  Susanne Lee; programmer:  Eric Lee)

AWARDS, HONORS, APPEARANCES

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

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 (a no-fee contest 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 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)

1987 Open Voice Award, The Writer’s Voice, New York

APPEARANCES

Selected Readings, 1987-2008: The Living Theatre, Biblios, Ceres Gallery and Dixon Place (New York); 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, California); Hungry Mind (Minneapolis); B Dalton (New York); Lincoln Center (Chicago); Kramerbooks (Washington, D.C.)

Moderator, PEN Annual New Writers’ Reading, New York, February 1988

Featured writer, PEN Annual New Writers’ Reading, New York, October 1985

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