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Don't Miss Hilton Als' KWH Fellows Events Tonight and TomorrowPosted 3/29/2021 Als began contributing to The New Yorker in 1989, writing pieces for "The Talk of the Town," and later became a staff writer in 1994, theatre critic in 2002, and lead theater critic in 2012. His reviews are not simply reviews; they are provocative contributions to the discourse on theatre, race, class, sexuality, and identity in America. He is currently working on a new book titled I Don’t Remember (Penguin, early 2021), a book length essay on his experiences in AIDS era New York. Before coming to The New Yorker, Als was a staff writer for the Village Voice and an editor-at-large at Vibe. Als edited the catalogue for the 1994-95 Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition "Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art." His first book, The Women, was published in 1996. His book, White Girls, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2014 and winner of the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Non-fiction, discusses various narratives of race and gender. He wrote the introduction to the Penguin Classics edition of The Early Stories of Truman Capote, and was guest editor for the 2018 Best American Essays. He wrote Andy Warhol: The Series, a book containing two previously unpublished television scripts for a series on the life of Andy Warhol. His in-progress debut play, Lives of the Performers, has been performed at Carolina Performing Arts and LAXART in Los Angeles. In 1997, the New York Association of Black Journalists awarded Als first prize in both Magazine Critique/Review and Magazine Arts and Entertainment. He was awarded a Guggenheim for creative writing in 2000 and the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for 2002–03. In 2016, he received the Lambda Literary’s Trustee Award for Excellence in Literature, as well as the Windham Campbell Prize for Nonfiction. In 2017 Als won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, and in 2018 the Langston Hughes Medal. In 2016, his debut art show "One Man Show: Holly, Candy, Bobbie and the Rest" opened at the Artist’s Institute. He has curated "Alice Neel, Uptown" and "God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin" at the David Zwirner Gallery in New York City. He is also curating three successive solo exhibitions at the Yale Centre for British Art, the first exhibit in 2018 featured Celia Paul, the second, in 2019, features Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, the third will feature Paul Doig. In 2019 Als partnered with WNYC's Greene Space on a limited podcast series titled The Way We Live Now: Hilton Als and America’s Poets. He recently contributed an essay to Moonlight, a limited edition book about the film of the same name. Als is an associate professor of writing at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and has taught at Yale University, Wesleyan, and Smith College. He lives in New York City. New at the EPC: Peter SeatonPosted 3/26/2021 The latest addition the our sister site, the Electronic Poetry Center, is a brand new author page for poet Peter Seaton. Our own Charles Bernstein recently announced the new page and shared these observations on the occasion of its launch: Peter Seaton (1944–2010) was a gloriously radical poet, one of the stellar writers working in New York in the 1970s and 1980s. Featured in L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, ROOF, Tuumba, ++. For some years, Steve McLaughlin has been working on a collection of his "complete" work — everything Seaton published, with reproductions from his magazine and anthology appearances, plus a substantial file of holographs. While his papers went to UCSD's Archive for New Poetry, and his three books are available at Eclipse (and linked here), this EPC page gives you access to a trove of significant works not included in his books or otherwise available, plus biographical information, a bibliography, and a few things written about or for Seaton. I am very grateful to Steve for this great job he has done on this digital edition. As always at EPC: free and without advertising. We couldn't agree more with Charles' assessment: this is both a labor of love and an astounding resource for well-established fans of Seaton's work along with those encountering him for the first time. If you'd like to hear some of these poems in performance, PennSound's Peter Seaton author page is home to a half-dozen vintage recordings from Segue Series events at the Ear Inn, taking place in December 1978, April and September 1971, July 1982, December 1984 and February 1987 — the first and last of which have been segmented into individual tracks. There's also a 1980 home recording of The Son Master and a pair of recordings from 1985: a reading at the Segue Foundation offices and an interview with filmmaker and friend Henry Hills. Click here to start listening, and here to browse Seaton's work at the EPC. Congratulations to PEN Career Achievement Award Winner Pierre JorisPosted 3/24/2021 Yesterday, PEN America announced its 2021 career achievement award winners, including the PEN/Manheim Award for Translation, which went to Pierre Joris. The judges' citation begins by noting Joris' unique position within the field: "In a landscape of literary translation that is still beholden to linguistic and national silos, Pierre Joris's work has long been and remains essential in mapping currents and countercurrents of global modernity. As literary translation struggles to confront imperial histories of violence and erasure, and to engage with and encourage voices of cultural and linguistic differences, Joris has blazed a path for generations of emerging translators to follow." They continue: Having spent over half a century moving between Europe, the U.S., and North Africa, and working across multiple languages, Joris has built a stunning and unparalleled career as a translator, poet, essayist, editor, critic, performer, and academic. Indeed, Joris's personal trajectory has fueled his articulation of a "nomad poetics" that cannot be contained by national or linguistic boundaries, one in which Anglo-European perspectives are enriched and complicated by those of the Global South, and where translation models the potentialities and necessary complexities of cross-cultural contact. They conclude by singling out Joris' work on Paul Celan and listing some of the iconic authors he's translated into English (Adonis, Jean-Pierre Duprey, Safaa Fathy, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Pablo Picasso, Rainer Maria Rilke, Kurt Schwitters, Habib Tengour, and Tristan Tzara) and French (Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Sam Shepard, and Pete Townshend). You can read more here. If you'd like to engage with some of Joris' award-winning work, we gladly point you in the direction of his PennSound author page, which is home to dozens of recordings spanning the past twenty-five years, including readings, talks, interviews, and podcast appearances. We send our heartiest congratulations to Joris for this great honor. Want to read more? Visit the PennSound Daily archive. |
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