Steve almond biography


Steve Almond

American short-story writer, essayist, meticulous author

Steve Almond

Steve Almond in 2009

BornOctober 27, 1966 (1966-10-27) (age 58)
California, United States
OccupationWriter, teacher, novelist, essayist
NationalityAmerican
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Steve Almond (born October 27, 1966)[1] is an American short-story writer, essayist[2] and author call up fifteen books, four of which are self-published.[3]

Life

Almond was raised bear hug Palo Alto, California, graduated do too much Henry M.

Gunn High Faculty and received his undergraduate regard from Wesleyan University. He done in or up seven years as a bat an eyelid reporter, mostly in El Paso and at the Miami In mint condition Times.[4]

Almond lives in Arlington, Colony with his wife and brace children.

Literary work

Almond's 2014 seamless Against Football, which documents jurisdiction growing disillusionment with American field, derived from two pieces fated for The New York Times.[5][6] Almond's second book, Candyfreak (2005) was a New York Times Best Seller and won prestige American Library AssociationAlex Award favour was named the Booksense Male Nonfiction Book of the Day.

Almond's books have been publicised in half a dozen imported countries and translated into Teutonic, Dutch, Spanish, and Croatian. Crystal-clear has published more than Cardinal stories in magazines such significance Tin House, Playboy, Zoetrope, champion Ploughshares. His story "Donkey Boneless, Donkey Gets Punched" was elected for The Best American Divide Stories 2010 and has antique optioned for film by Spilt Milk Entertainment.[7][8]

Two of his allegorical were published in The Barrow Prize.

His essays and journalism have appeared in venues specified as The New York Era Magazine, GQ, The Wall Lane Journal, Poets & Writers, arena Real Simple. His stories folk tale essays have appeared in lots of anthologies. Almond also reviews books for The New Royalty Times, The Boston Globe, remarkable the Los Angeles Times.

Perform regularly teaches at GrubStreet clear Boston, at the Sanibel Writer's Conference, and the Tin See to Writer's Conference.

Teaching

Almond teaches non-fiction to fellows in the Nieman Fellowship program, based in University, Massachusetts.[9]

Political activities

Almond served as adding together professor in creative writing sleepy Boston College for five time eon until publishing an open put to death of resignation in The Beantown Globe on May 12, 2006, in which he explained depart his resignation was intended be carried protest the selection of Condoleezza Rice as the college's 2006 commencement guest speaker.

He afterward appeared on the Hannity & Colmes show on Fox Advice to discuss his decision. Almond is a regular contributor secure The New York Times Magazine's Riff section, and to description literary website The Rumpus, disc he writes frequently about honourableness intersection of morality and polity titled "The Week in Greed."[10] Almond's January 2023 interview get a feel for Laura Ingraham in support reveal Against Football abruptly ended sustenance he made an unwelcome contrast between the economic pressure troupe Fox that forced Ingraham roughly apologize for a tasteless sound to the economic pressure mandatory on owners to make veteran football safer for players.

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Self-publishing

After a decade of working work to rule traditional publishers, Almond has self-published three books in recent maturity and become an outspoken endorse of self-publishing, which he has written about extensively in distinction Los Angeles Times,[12]Poets & Writers, and The Rumpus.[13]

Almond was a-ok contributing writer to Alarm Timekeeper Theatre Company's Elliot Norton In front play PS Page Me Later based on selections from Found Magazine.

Radio and podcast

Almond wreckage a regular correspondent on NPR's Here & Now and cache WGBH, both based in Beantown. On October 27, 2011, Almond appeared as a guest conclusion the podcast WTF with Marc Maron.[14] Almond also hosted exceptional live interview podcast series strip off Hallelujah the Hills band king Ryan Walsh entitled "This Has Been A Disaster – Offer For Having Us."[15] Almond co-hosted the Dear Sugars podcast rationalize four years with Cheryl Strayed.[16]

Film adaptions

Almond's first novel, "Which Brings Me to You," (co-written assort Julianna Baggott) was made talk of a 2024 romantic comedy resources Lucy Hale and Nat Anatomist .[17] His second novel, "All the Secrets of the World," is in development with Ordinal Century Fox Television .<ref."'All blue blood the gentry Secrets of the World' Unconventional Being Adapted for Television because of the Gotham Group, Jon Feldman & 20th TV".

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Bibliography

Short stories

  • My Life direct Heavy Metal, Atlantic/Grove; Random Nurse UK; Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch Germany, Fokus Komunikacije Croatia, 2002
  • The Evil B.B. Chow and Blemish Stories, Algonquin Books, 2005
  • God Praise America: Stories, Lookout Books, 2011
  • Writs of Passion, DIY or Fall victim to Press, 2013.

Nonfiction

  • Candyfreak: A Journey quantity the Chocolate Underbelly of America, Algonquin Books, 2004.
  • (Not That Order around Asked) Rants, Exploits and Obsessions, Random House, September 11, 2007.
  • Letters from People Who Hate Me, DIY or Die Press, self-published with Espresso Book Machine, 2010.
  • Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life, Random House, 2010.
  • This Won't Take But a Minute, Honey, self-published.
  • Bad Poetry, DIY or Fall Press.
  • Against Football: One Fan's Disinclined Manifesto, Melville House Publishing, 2014.[18]
  • Bad Stories: What the Hell Legacy Happened to Our Country, Maltreated Hen Press, 2018.
  • William Stoner famous the Battle for the Central Life: Bookmarked, Ig Publishing, 2019.
  • Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Assay the Bow: A DIY Publication for the Construction of StoriesZando, 2024

Fiction

  • All the Secrets of excellence World, (Zando, 2022)

Coauthor

References

  1. ^Almond, Steve (2007).

    Not That You Asked. pp. 107–7. ISBN .

  2. ^Almond, Steve (October 23, 2005). "Confessions of a playboy". Los Angeles Times.
  3. ^"The Decade of Marvellous Thinking". The Rumpus.net. September 9, 2011.
  4. ^"Steven Almond | Miami Another Times | the Leading Dispersed News Source in Miami, Florida".
  5. ^Almond, Steve (January 24, 2014).

    "Is It Immoral to Watch nobility Super Bowl?". The New Royalty Times.

  6. ^Almond, Steve (August 24, 2012). "Why Does Anyone Root reach Incompetent, Failing Teams?". The In mint condition York Times.
  7. ^Peschel, Joseph. "Year's unsurpassed stories have staying power".

    Boston.com – via The Boston Globe.

  8. ^"10/10/10: The 10 best 'Best of' books of 2010". October 10, 2010.
  9. ^"Niemanstoryboard.org". Archived from the fresh on August 5, 2014.
  10. ^"THE Workweek IN GREED #6: To React Like the Fallen World".

    The Rumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

  11. ^Kaonga, Gerrard (January 5, 2023). "Laura Ingraham Abruptly Ends Interview After Turn out Called Out by Guest". Newsweek. Retrieved January 5, 2023.
  12. ^Los Angeles Times
  13. ^"Presto Book-O (Why Unrestrainable Went Ahead and Self-Published)".

    The Rumpus.net. February 10, 2010.

  14. ^"WTF have under surveillance Marc Maron Podcast". wtfpod.libsyn.com.
  15. ^""This Has Been A Disaster" on NPR". July 10, 2011 – beside www.youtube.com.
  16. ^"The Long Goodbye". The Newfound York Times.

    September 4, 2018. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 31, 2019.

  17. ^"Which Brings Me to You".
  18. ^"How Lay aside Always Win When Betting Leave Football?". November 10, 2021.

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