Believer, Issue 133 - Couverture souple

 
9781949646108: Believer, Issue 133

Synopsis

The Believer, a ten-time National Magazine Award finalist, is a bimonthly literature, arts, and culture magazine based at the Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute, a department of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In each issue, readers will find journalism, essays, intimate interviews, an expansive comics section, poetry, and on occasion, delightful and unexpected bonus items. Our poetry section is curated by Jericho Brown, Kristen Radtke selects our comics, and Joshua Wolf Shenk is our editor-in-chief. Issues feature a column by Nick Hornby, in which he discusses the things he’s been reading, as well as a comedy advice column.

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À propos des auteurs

The Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute is an international literary center on the campus of UNLV. BMI brings writers and the literary imagination into the heart of public life through publications, live events, fellowships, student enrichment opportunities, and much more.

Lydia Davis's most recent collection of stories is Can't and Won't (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014). Her translation of Proust's Letters to His Neighbor appeared in 2017 from New Directions, and a collection of her essays, ESSAYS ONE, was published last year by FSG. She is currently preparing a second volume of essays and recently completed a translation of stories by the Dutch writer A.L. Snijders.

Rita Dove is a former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner (Thomas and Beulah, 1987). She is the author of numerous poetry books, a novel, short stories, a play and, as editor, The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Her honors include the 1996 National Humanities Medal from President Clinton and the 2011 National Medal of Arts from President Obama – the only poet ever to receive both medals – as well as the Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities, the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, and a 2017 NAACP Image Award (for Collected Poems: 1974-2004). She is the Henry Hoyns Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Virginia. Her next volume of poems, Playlist for the Apocalypse, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton in the summer of 2021.

Myriam Gurba is a writer and artist. She is the author of the memoir Mean, a New York Times editors’ choice. O, the Oprah Magazine, ranked Mean as one of the best LGBTQ books of all time. Publishers’ Weekly describes Gurba as having a voice like no other. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The Paris Review, TIME.com, and 4Columns. She has shown art in galleries, museums, and community centers. She lives in Long Beach, California, with herself.

Megan Reid is the author of three books for young readers and adults, including her most recent collection of illustrated profiles, Who Did It First? 50 Icons, Luminaries, and Legends Who Revolutionized the World (Holt BFYR). A former book editor, she now works in television development. She lives in Brooklyn and is proud that her bylines include at least one teen magazine quiz about the Jonas Brothers.

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