Elissa Schappell
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Elissa Schappell is an American novelist, short story writer, editor and essayist. Her first book of fiction, Use Me a collection of ten linked short stories, was published in 2000 by William Morrow, and was runner up for the PEN/Hemingway Award. She is the co-founder of the literary magazine Tin House and Editor-at-Large. She was previously a Senior Editor at The Paris Review Schappell has co-edited two anthologies of essays The Friend Who Got Away, published in 2005 by Doubleday and Money Changes Everything, published in 2007 by Doubleday. She is a Contributing-editor at Vanity Fair, and author of the "Hot Type" book column.[1] A second book of fiction, Blueprints for Building Better Girls, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2011.[citation needed]. It was chosen as a "Best Book of the Year" by The San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal. Newsweek/The Daily Beast, and O Magazine. She teaches at schools including Columbia University, NYU, and Queens University. Originally from Delaware, she now lives in Brooklyn with her family.
Biography
She graduated from New York University with an MFA in creative writing.[2] Her first career work was for Spy magazine in the 1980s, under founding editor E. Graydon Carter and Kurt Andersen. She has contributed articles to magazines such as GQ, Vogue and Spin. Her fiction, interviews and essays have appeared in such places as BOMB, One Story, Nerve, The KGB Bar Reader, The Paris Review: Beat Writers at Work, The Mrs Dalloway Reader, The Bitch in the House, Cooking and Stealing, Bound to Last, Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting (W. W. Norton & Co, 2013). She has written book reviews for the New York Times,[3] BookForum, and The London Daily Telegraph. She is married to Tin House editor Rob Spillman, with whom she co-founded the magazine.
References
- Use Me, Elissa Schappell, William Morrow, 2000.
- "Blueprints for Building Better Girls". Elissa Schappell, Simon & Schuster, 2011.
External links
- http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2011/09/04/review_of_blueprints_for_building_better_girls_by_elissa_schappell/
- http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/books/review/love-stories-by-ludmilla-petrushevskaya.html
- http://www.salon.com/writer/elissa_schappell/
- interview at "Paper Cuts" weblog at the New York Times website
- interview at Beatrice.com website
- Schappell at Harpercollins website
- Schappell at Random House website
- Brooklyn Rail In Conversation Elissa Schappell with Jenine Holmes
- Interview with Elissa Schappell on Read First, Ask Later, Episode 18
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