If you'd like to nominate a writer, contact the committee through the new website we've set up here. As they look through nominations and make a selection, I'll keep you updated. And of course, I'll be sitting in on the meeting, too!
Now, without further ado, your task force!
Marisha Ferguson, MFA in creative writing candidate, University of Mishipeshu.
You know my assistant Marisha.
Billy Draeger, literate rocker and essayist
Draeger's band, The October Revolutionists, have attracted lots of national attention for their witty, historically keen lyrics and album cover art. Recently, Draeger has begun writing columns for the Mishipeshu Free Press, dealing with the quirky history of the neighborhood and his own trials and tribulations as an up-and-coming rocker.
Jeffrey Moseley, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist
Moseley's first novel, 1988's We Are Living Here In Hanley Now, was a heartbreaking look at the neighborhood through the eyes of a naive young man and an eccentric cast of colorful characters around him. It won him the Pulitzer Prize in Literature in 1989, and was recently made into an Academy Award-winning film starring Giovanni Ribisi. His other books have been great, too.
Jennifer Lee Jasperson, Richman Award-winning novelist
Jasperson's first novel, 2005's Ring the Bell for Break Time, was a smart, charming and quirky tale of love, sadness and Chinese finger traps. It was an immediate literary sensation and propelled this 26-year old Bryn Mawr graduate into the upper echelons of bibliophilic fame. Her follow-up is eagerly awaited, and due to be completed next year.
Ted Norlander, senior music and book critic for the Heights Free Press
Norlander's fifth book of pop culture essays Kill Them Again: The Awesome, Screaming Death of Discourse in the U.S.A. and Twelve or Thirteen Other New Half-Truths was recently published in paperback. His previous books, including You Are Awesome, But Who Will Take Your Trash Out? (Salvos From the Front Lines of the War On Screamo), They Said Simon Le Bon Was Right and I Have the Stopwatch to Prove It: Seven-and-Three-Fifths Months in the Life of the American Post-Indie Underground, and Sorry About the Disco Upstairs: New Critical Essays and Restaurant Placemat Puzzles For the Youth of America, have earned him the distinction of being one of the most unique and insightful young writers on the scene today.
Art Norman, novelist and professor of creative writing, St. Rumwald College
Mr. Norman is the legendary author of dozens of novels, beginning with his first one, We Died Because They Told Us To, in 1947, and also including such classics of 20th century literature as Last Dance, Hatchet, A Death by the Sea, The Funeral of William Henry Harrison, Parlor Music, Midnight Mass, and Hail Thee, Mighty Caesar.
2 comments:
Larson, you pinprick! This is just the sort of committee of peabrains and mouth-breathers I would have expected from a moon-faced, bedwetting ward-heeler like yourself! Art Norman is a tired old hack and has been since "Parlor Music," Moseley is a spineless simp, and the other four are so utterly inconsequential I can't even bring myself to address them at all.
Listen, it's sad that Porter died, but you're going about this all wrong. I don't mind that you didn't appoint me to this kangaroo court, because I would have flat out refused. But I'm a better writer than the lot of these clowns put together, and I'm sure that on the balance, I've sold more books.
Plus, let's not forget that I had your job for a few years back during Mayor Freese's administration from '71-'73, so I know a thing or two about running the 3rd Ward. If you're still sore about that editorial I wrote in the Free-Press a few months ago about the crushing incompetence of your tenure, you should grow a pair.
You're an ingrate and a hack, Larson.
I'm just approving this comment so everyone can see what a disagreeable old man you are, Mr, Burin. No one on the committee wanted you to join anyway, and they all thought your memoirs was ridiculous.
Post a Comment