The Best American Short Stories 2002 , a volume in The Best American Short Stories series , was edited by Katrina Kennison and by guest editor Sue Miller . ref Kennison, Katrina and Miller, Sue editors , The Best American Short Stories 2002 Sue Miller , New York, 2002. ref ref Nancy Pate, Orlando Sentinel October 7, 2002 ref ref Publishers Weekly , Sept. 30, 2002 ref Short stories included Author Story Source Michael Chabon Along the Frontage Road The New Yorker Carolyn Cooke The Sugar Tit AGNI Agni Review Ann Cummins The Red Ant House McSweeney s Edwige Danticat Seven The New Yorker E.L. Doctorow A House on the Plains The New Yorker Richard Ford Puppy The Southwest Review Melissa Hardy The Heifer Descent Disambiguation needed date June 2011 Karl Iagnemma Zilkowski s Theorem Zoetrope Jhumpa Lahiri Nobody s Business The New Yorker Beth Lordan Digging The Atlantic Monthly Alice Mattison In Case We re Separated Ploughshares Jill McCorkle Billy Goats Bomb magazine Bomb Tom McNeal Watermelon Days Zoetrope Leonard Michaels Nachman from Los Angeles The New Yorker Arthur Miller Bulldog The New Yorker Meg Mullins The Rug The New Yorker Alice Munro Family Furnishings The New Yorker Akhil Sharma Surrounded by Sleep The New Yorker Jim Shepard Love and Hydrogen Harper s Magazine Mary Yakuri Waters Aftermath Manoa Other notable stories Among the other notable writers whose stories were among the 100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2001 were Ann Beattie , Dan Chaon , Stuart Dybek , Louise Erdrich , Joyce Carol Oates , Bob Shacochis , John Updike and the late Richard Yates novelist Richard Yates . Notes references External links http www.bestamericanshortstories.com Best American Short Stories Category 2002 books Best American Short Stores 2002, The Category Fiction anthologies Category Best American series ... more details
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 , a volume in The Best American Nonrequired Reading series, was edited by Dave Eggers and introduced by Sufjan Stevens . ref Eggers, Dave editor , The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008 Houghton Mifflin , New York, 2007. ref ref A Rich Cultural Stew Worthy of Taste Charlotte Observer , Dec. 23, 2007 ref ref Nonrequired Reading isn t a should read, it s an essential read. San Jose Mercury News May 3, 2007 ref Works included Work Source Author Middle American Gothic Spin magazine Jonathan Ames A Happy Death Fun Home Alison Bechdel Ghost Children Creative Nonfiction D. Winston Brown Rock the Junta Mother Jones magazine Mother Jones Scott Carrier American New Orleans Review Joshua Clark What is your dangerous idea? Edge Foundation, Inc. Edge Foundation Edge Foundation, Inc. Edge Foundation Selling the General Five Chapters Jennifer Egan Where I Slept Tin House Stephen Elliott author Stephen Elliott Loteria Indiana Review Kevin A. Gonzales How to Tell Stories to Children Zoetrope Miranda July Adina, Astrid, Chipewee, Jasmine The New Yorker Matthew Klam All Aboard the Bloated Boat Barrelhouse Lee Klein Love and Honora and Pity and Pride.... Zoetrope Nam Le writer Nam Le Darfur Diaries Jen Marlowe, Aisha Bain & Adam Shapiro The Big Suck Virginia Quarterly Review David J. Morris Stuyvesant High School Commencement Speech Conan O Brien Humpies AGNI Agni Online Mattox Roesch So Long, Anyway Epoch Patrick Somerville Literature Unnatured American Short Fiction Joy Williams Notes references External links http www.bestamericannonrequiredreading.blogspot.com The Best American Nonrequired Reading Category 2007 books Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007, The Category Fiction anthologies Category Best American series ... more details
Infobox writer for more information see Template Infobox writer doc name Will Allison caption birth date birth date and age 1968 10 22 mf yes birth place Columbia, South Carolina death date death place occupation novelist genre movement nationality United States influences Lee K. Abbott , William Maxwell , Alice Munro influenced website http www.willallison.com Will Allison is an American author. He is the writer of the New York Times bestselling book the Long Drive Home 2011 and What You Have Left 2007 . Personal life Allison was born in Columbia, South Carolina. He graduated from Case Western Reserve University in 1991 with a degree in English and Political Science, and then went on to The Ohio State University to receive his M.A. in English and MFA in creative writing. Alison now lives with his wife and daughter in South Orange, New Jersey. Career Allison is a contributing editor for One Story magazine, but has also served at the executive editor of Story , editor at large for Zoetrope All Story , and editor of Novel & Short Story Writer s Market . He has taught creative writing at Ohio State University, Butler University, and Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis. In 2012, he will teach a class in Columbia University s MFA creative writing program. He has published short fiction in American Short Fiction , Atlanta Magazine , The Cincinnati Review , The Florida Review , Glimmer Train , The Kenyon Review , One Story , Shenandoah , Zoetrope All Story , and elsewhere. External links http willallison.com Will Allison personal website Persondata NAME Allison, Will ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1968 PLACE OF BIRTH Columbia, South Carolina DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Allison, Will Category Articles created via the Article Wizard Category American novelists Category 1968 births Category Living people ... more details
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Barry Stern was a Heavy metal music heavy metal drummer from Chicago, Illinois . From 1976 until 1988, Barry drummed for Zoetrope band Zoetrope , for whom he also served as vocalist and songwriter. After recording two LPs with that band, Barry joined Trouble band Trouble in 1989. He appeared on two LPs with the band, 1990 s Trouble 1990 album Trouble and 1992 s Manic Frustration , before leaving in 1993. In 1994, Barry replaced Joe Hasselvander of Pentagram band Pentagram in Cathedral band Cathedral for touring purposes. ref http www.musicmight.com artist gbr coventry cathedral ref Barry also joined Pantera band for a brief period of time. A guest spot on Debris, Inc. s self titled debut album was Barry s last appearance on record. He died on April 1, 2005 from complications following hip replacement surgery. ref Cite web url http www.roadrunnerrecords.com blabbermouth.net news.aspx?mode Article&newsitemID 34935 title Former TROUBLE ZOETROPE Drummer BARRY STERN Passes Away publisher BLABBERMOUTH.NET ref Prior to Barry s death, he was the founder of the band D Connect his stage name . He was singing and drumming for the band D Connect at the time of his death. Trouble dedicated their 2007 album Simple Mind Condition to his memory. He was an unbelievable son to Louise Stern, and an outstanding brother to Karen Stern Jarger and Arlen Stern. He was an amazing Uncle to Jeremy Jarger, Lindsay Jarger, and Alan Stern, and was a great friend and in law to John Jarger. He will be loved forever always in his family and his fan s hearts. Citation needed date April 2011 References references External links http www.roadrunnerrecords.com blabbermouth.net news.aspx?mode Article&newsitemID 34967 Trouble comment on Barry s passing http www.chicagopunkpix.com Barry.html Chicago Punk Pix s Tribute To Barry trouble Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Stern, Barry ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 2005 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSO ... more details
http www.all story.com issues.cgi?action show story&story id 198 The Second Strongest Man from Zoetrope ... Grave from Zoetrope All Story http www.newyorker.com fiction features 2010 08 09 100809fi fiction ... more details
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Jim Henson Pictures is an American movie studio, owned by The Jim Henson Company and opened by Lisa Henson Lisa and Brian Henson , the daughter and son of the late Jim Henson . List of films produced by JHP The Muppet Movie The Dark Crystal with Universal Pictures The Great Muppet Caper with Universal Pictures The Muppets Take Manhattan with TriStar Pictures Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird with Warner Bros. Labyrinth film Labyrinth with TriStar Pictures The Witches 1990 film The Witches with Warner Bros. The Muppet Christmas Carol with Walt Disney Pictures Muppet Treasure Island with Walt Disney Pictures The Indian in the Cupboard film The Indian in the Cupboard with Columbia Pictures Buddy 1997 film Buddy with American Zoetrope and Columbia Pictures Muppets from Space with Columbia Pictures The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland with Columbia Pictures Rat film Rat with Universal Pictures Good Boy with Metro Goldwyn Mayer Five Children and It film Five Children & It with Capitol Films MirrorMask with Samuel Goldwyn Films and Palisades Tartan See also List of notable Henson feature films for both Muppet and non Muppet films released under the Henson label List of feature length Muppet films for the live action Muppet films Film Studio The Jim Henson Company Category Film production companies of the United States Category The Jim Henson Company subsidiaries Category Entertainment companies of the United States Category Companies established in 1997 Category American film studios film studio stub ... more details
The lectrotachyscope is an 1887 invention of Ottomar Ansch tz of Germany which presents the illusion of motion physics motion with transparent serial photographs, chronophotography chronophotographs , arranged on a spinning The Wheel of Fortune wheel of fortune or mandala like glass disc, significant as a technology technological development in the history of cinema . A Geissler tube was used to flash light through the Transparency projection transparencies to provide a weak projection to a single person or small audience through a small window. It was first publicly demonstrated at the World s Columbian Exposition Chicago World s Fair of 1893. An earlier, related device is described in the January 24, 1878 issue of the Academic journal journal Nature . See also Flip book Phenakistoscope Praxinoscope Strobe light Thaumatrope Zoetrope Zoopraxiscope Sources http www.victorian cinema.net anschutz.htm Who s Who of Victorian Cinema http easyweb.easynet.co.uk s herbert ottomar anschutz.htm Deac Rossell, The Electrical Wonder Burns, Paul http www.precinemahistory.net 1885.htm The History of the Discovery of Cinematography An Illustrated Chronology Fielding, Raymond, 1967, A Technological History of Motion Pictures and Television . Category History of film Filming stub de Elektrotachyscop es Electrotaquiscopio fr lectrotachyscope pl Elektrotachyskop ... more details
Linda Reisman is an United States American Film industry film producer. Reisman s film career began with a bit part in the 1987 movie Light of Day . She went on to Executive producer Motion pictures and television executive produce such films as Jeepers Creepers film Jeepers Creepers 2001 , Pumpkin film Pumpkin 2002 , and most recently Assassination Tango 2002 , a film directed by and starring Robert Duvall . She has also been announced as a producer the upcoming film, The Danish Girl film The Danish Girl . External links http movies2.nytimes.com gst movies filmography.html?p id 107909 Linda Reisman filmography , New York Times IMDb name id 0718458 name Linda Reisman Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Reisman, Linda ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Reisman, Linda Category American film producers Category Living people US film producer stub Linda Reisman was an Associate Producer on PATTY HEARST and THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS and continued producing for Paul Schrader with LIGHT SLEEPER and AFFLICTION. She produced MOTHER NIGHT and WAKING THE DEAD, both directed by Keith Gordon. Reisman then became Head of Production for Francis Coppola s Zoetrope Studios and received executive producer credit on JEEPERS CREEPERS, NO SUCH THING, PUMPKIN and ASSASSINATION TANGO. ... more details
For the Spanish footballer Daniel Orozco lvarez Daniel Orozco is a writer of fiction known primarily for his short stories. His works have appeared in anthologies such as The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize Anthology and magazines such as Harper s and Zoetrope . He is a former Stegner Fellowship Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer of Stanford University and currently teaches creative writing at the University of Idaho . Perhaps opinion date September 2011 Orozco s best known short story is Orientation , which originally appeared in The Seattle Review and has subsequently been included in The Best American Short Stories 1995 , and presented in audio form on National Public Radio . Orientation And Other Stories , a collection of Orozco s work, was published by Faber & Faber in May 2011. ref http theamericanshot.com oceans of the preposterous and horrifying a review of daniel orozcos orientations and other stories ref References reflist External links http www.lannan.org lf bios detail daniel orozco Orozco bio from the Lannan Foundation http theamericanshot.com oceans of the preposterous and horrifying a review of daniel orozcos orientations and other stories A review of Orientation Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Orozco, Daniel ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Orozco, Daniel Category American short story writers Category Stanford University alumni Category University of Idaho faculty Category Living people US story writer stub ... more details
David Samuel Levinson is a United States American short story writer and novelist. He has published the short story collection Most of Us Are Here Against Our Will 2005 . He has won awards for his work in The Atlantic Monthly and Zoetrope All Story and has published stories in slushpile , Prairie Schooner , The Brooklyn Review , and West Branch . His first novel, Antonia Lively Breaks The Silence Algonquin Books , is scheduled for publication in the winter of 2012. He s been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize and has received multiple fellowships from Yaddo, the Jentel Foundation, the Millay Colony, Ledig House, Pouch Cove, the Santa Fe Arts Institute, and the Sewanee Writers Conference. In 2008 to 2009 he served as the Emerging Writer Lecturer at Gettysburg College. In 2011, he won the Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellowship for Writers. Currently, David teaches creative writing online through the UCLA Extension Writers Program and NYU s SCPS. External links http www.david levinson.com index.html David Levinson Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Levinson, David Samuel ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Levinson, David Category American novelists Category American short story writers Category Living people Category Year of birth missing living people US novelist stub US story writer stub ... more details
Lucia Nevai is an American novelist and short story writer, native to Des Moines, Iowa, born September 11, 1945. She currently resides in upstate New York. Her novel Salvation was published in 2008 by Tin House Books . Nevai s debut novel, Seriously, was published in 2004 by Little, Brown. Her short stories have appeared in Tin House , Iowa Review , Zoetrope All Story , the The New Yorker New Yorker , Glimmer Train , and other literary magazines. Her first collection, Star Game , won the Iowa Short Fiction Award. Her second collection, Normal , was published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. Bibliography 2008 Salvation novel Portland, OR Tin House Books . ISBN 978 0 9794198 3 6 External links http www.tinhouse.com books catalog salvation.htm Salvation at Tin House Books http bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com 2007 11 preview 2008salvation by lucia nevai.html Excerpt of Salvation http www.tinhouse.com books catalog salvation re.htm Reviews of Salvation http www.tinhouse.com books catalog salvation qna.htm Q & A with Lucia Nevai Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Nevai, Lucia ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Nevai, Lucia Category American novelists Category American short story writers Category Year of birth missing living people Category Living people ... more details
Kristine Peterson is a film director who worked as an assistant director and second unit director on several films as well as directing her own films in the late 80s and 90s. She was a member of the staff at Omni Zoetrope Studios for the filming of Apocalypse Now . Filmography as director Deadly Dreams 1988 Body Chemistry 1990 Critters 3 1991 Lower Level 1992 The Hard Truth 1994 Kickboxer 5 1995 Slaves to the Underground 1997 Filmography as second unit director or assistant director The Oasis 1984 Exterminator 2 1984 Gimme an F 1984 Grunt The Wrestling Movie 1985 Chopping Mall 1986 The Ladies Club 1986 The Supernaturals 1986 Reform School Girls 1986 Nightflyers 1987 The Drifter 1988 film The Drifter 1988 Beach Balls 1988 Bill & Ted s Excellent Adventure 1989 Beverly Hills Bodysnatchers 1989 A Nightmare on Elm Street 5 The Dream Child 1989 Tremors 1990 External links IMDb name 0677253 Kristine Peterson Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Peterson, Kristine ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Peterson, Kristine Category Female film directors Category Female television directors fr Kristine Peterson ... more details
Sam Chew Jr. is an American actor most famous for his roll in Serial 1980 , and for being the only actor to play both John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy on television. ref cite book last Alvin H. Marill title Movies made for television the telefeature and the mini series, 1964 1986 publisher New York Zoetrope, 1987 ref After more than 20 years in the film industry, Chew utilized his voice for narrating the Discovery Channel series, Shark Week . Selected Filmography 40 Carats film 40 Carats 1973 Rattlers 1976 The Bionic Woman 1976 1978 8 Episodes Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy 1977 F.I.S.T. 1978 Operation Petticoat 1977 television series Operation Petticoat 1978 1979 3 Episodes Love and Bullets 1979 film Love and Bullets 1979 Serial 1980 film Serial 1980 Time Walker 1982 Scarab film Scarab 1983 10 to Midnight 1983 Disorderlies 1987 Kinjite Forbidden Subjects 1989 References Reflist External links IMDb name 0156780 Category American film actors Category American voice actors Category American television actors ... more details
BLP sources date August 2011 Arthur Houston Bradford born November 19, 1969 in Boothbay Harbor, Maine is an American short story author and a director. He has had one book of short stories published, Dogwalker Knopf ISBN 0 375 72669 1 . ref cite news url http www.nytimes.com 2001 08 26 books books in brief fiction poetry 748382.html title Books in Brief Fiction & Poetry last Walker first Rob date 26 August 2001 work The New York Times page 20 accessdate 19 August 2011 ref He has won an O. Henry Award and has had his stories published in Esquire magazine Esquire , Timothy McSweeney s Quarterly Concern McSweeneys , Zoetrope All Story Zoetrope , Dazed & Confused magazine Dazed & Confused , Tin House , and BOMB magazine BOMB . He was a contributor to the McSweeney s publication The Future Dictionary of America . He was a Stegner Fellowship Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University and a James Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin . He was also the director of How s Your News? , a documentary wherein disabled and handicapped adults interview unsuspecting passersby in a cross country road trip. The film was broadcast on HBO , PBS , and United Kingdom British channel, Channel 4 . The concept was expanded and developed into a series for MTV and broadcast throughout 2009. Bradford served as executive producer and director. Arthur and a How s Your News reporter were interviewed on the popular BBC podcast Ouch He was also featured on NPR s This American Life in the Special Ed episode. Since 2006, he has served as director of Camp Jabberwocky , one of the longest running residential camps for adults with disabilities in the United States. Bradford kept a blog in 2007 2008 about raising his daughter on babble.com. It was entitled Diaper Bandit . Arthur Bradford is a great great great grandson of department store magnate Abraham Abraham and also philanthropist Jacob Schiff . He is the son of painter Katherine Bradford Katherine Bradford. Bradford is also the di ... more details
Holiday Reinhorn born 1964 Portland, Oregon is an United States American fiction writer known for her short story short stories . She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop ref cite web url http authors.simonandschuster.com Holiday Reinhorn 29549773 title Simon & Schuster Holiday Reinhorn accessdate 2010 02 25 ref and the author of Big Cats , published by Free Press publisher Free Press in 2005. ref cite web url http www.simonsays.com content book.cfm?tab 2&pid 507535 title Simon & Schuster Big Cats Trade Paperback accessdate 2007 04 16 ref Her work has been published in Ploughshares , ref cite web url http www.pshares.org authors author detail.cfm?intAuthorID 6919 title Ploughshares,the literary journal accessdate 2010 02 25 ref Zoetrope All Story , ref cite web url http www.all story.com issues.cgi?action show story&story id 273 title Zoetrope All Story, back issues accessdate 2007 04 16 ref Gulf Coast , and many other literary magazines. ref cite web url http www.land grantcollegereview.com author.php Holiday Reinhorn 34 index title Land Grant College Review Holiday Reinhorn accessdate 2007 04 16 ref She is married to actor Rainn Wilson , who stars in The Office US TV series The Office . They are both adherents of the Bah Faith . ref Cite web title Holiday Reinhorn work Why Baha i publisher National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha is of the United States date October 1, 2009 url http www.bahai.us Holiday Reinhorn accessdate 2010 07 07 ref References reflist External links http www.pshares.org issues article.cfm?prmArticleID 8005 Get Away from Me, David Dead link date February 2010 http www.holidayreinhorn.com Holiday Reinhorn Official Site Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata Persondata NAME Reinhorn, Holiday ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Short story writer DATE OF BIRTH 1964 PLACE OF BIRTH Portland, Oregon Portland , Oregon , United States DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Reinhorn, Holiday Category 1964 births Category American Bah s Category ... more details
Multiple issues refimprove September 2007 notability February 2010 cleanup June 2010 inappropriate tone June 2010 Andy Sinclair Harris is a designer director based in London, England . He is also the artistic director of Kinematic Theatre . Andy holds a degree in theatre design BA Hons and Masters Degree from Rose Bruford College . Whilst studying at Rose Bruford College Andy has been fortunate to work on many challenging and exciting projects and has worked with some highly respected practitioners. Citation needed date February 2007 He has also designed for musicals, touring theatre, children s theatre, puppetry, events, theme parks and most recently the aerial production, Zoetrope. Citation needed date February 2007 Whilst at Rose Bruford College Andy designed the Rose Bruford College Annual Ball for 2004 and the Student s Union clothing for 2004. During the past three years Andy has been privileged to work with many practitioners including, Iona McLeish, Polly Irvin, Anne Casseldine, Chris Baldwin, Nigel Hook and Tony Award winning designer, Bob Crowley . He has also worked as a scenic artist at the National Theatre. Whilst studying for his Masters Andy has designed several productions at Rose Bruford College. In February Andy directed and designed his first production at Rose Bruford College, entitled, The Autumn of His Years . In 2006 Andy assisted designer director Bob Crowley on the new Disney musical Tarzan, which opened on Broadway in May 2006 and Mary Poppins, currently showing at the Prince Edward Theatre. He is also a regular assistant designer to friend and mentor Nigel Hook, most recently on the new Steptoe and Son show Murder at Oil Drum Lane and Aladdin at the Theatre York. In early 2006 Andy founded Kinematic theatre company , with Radica Anikpe, Karl Lawton, Antoinette Lester and Dean Taylor, producing The Autumn of His Years , and When the Light Goes Out . His most recent achievement has been the hugely successful aerial production, Zoetrope , whi ... more details
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