Susan Daitch (born 1954) is an American novelist and short story writer. In 1996 David Foster Wallace called her "one of the most intelligent and attentive writers at work in the U.S. today."[1]
Susan Daitch | |
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.jpg) Daitch in 2007 | |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Barnard College |
| Genre | Short Story, Novel |
Early life and education
editSusan Daitch was born in New Haven, Connecticut, 1954.[2] She graduated from Barnard College[3] and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.[4]
Career
editShe is the author of six novels and a collection of short stories.[5][6]
Her work has appeared in Guernica,[7] Bomb,[8][9] Pacific Review,[10] The Barcelona Review,[11] Fault Magazine,[12] Rain Taxi,[13] Tablet,[14] Tin House,[15] McSweeney's,[16] Conjunctions,[17] The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Fiction,[18] and elsewhere.
Her novel Siege of Comedians was listed as one of the best books of 2021[19] in The Wall Street Journal.
She taught at Barnard College, Columbia University, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.[20] She teaches at Hunter College.[21]
A 2012 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow,[3] she is a supporter of Women for Afghan Women.[22]
Bibliography
edit- L.C. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987; Dalkey Archive Press, 2002
- The Colorist. Vintage Contemporaries, 1990
- Storytown: Stories. Dalkey Archive Press, 1996
- Paper Conspiracies. City Lights Books, 2011
- Fall Out. Madras Press, 2013
- The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir. City Lights Books, 2016
- White Lead: A Novel of Suspense. Alibi, 2016 (e-book)
- Siege of Comedians. Dzanc Books, 2021
References
edit- ^ On the back cover of Daitch’s Storytown: “These are fine and moving stories about the death of meaning, about persons trying to decode the seas of signals in which they float and drown, failing. Their flaw is their triumph: they try—and so the stories are also about courage, that most tragic of virtues. This is an important collection by one of the most intelligent and attentive writers at work in the U.S. today.”
- ^ Scarparo, Susanna (1 January 2005). Elusive Subjects: Biography as Gendered Metafiction. Troubador Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-904744-19-1. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
- ^ a b "Barnard College – Susan Daitch '77 and B.G. Firmani '90 awarded NYFA fellowships". Retrieved 31 May 2016.
- ^ Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program (1993). Independent study program: 25 years (1968-1993) : Whitney Museum of American Art. Frances Mulhall Achilles Library Whitney Museum of American Art. Whitney Museum of American Art.
- ^ Daitch, Susan. "Susan Daitch's Books". www.susandaitch.net. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
- ^ "SIEGE OF COMEDIANS BY SUSAN DAITCH". www.dzancbooks.org. Dzanc Book. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
- ^ Magazine, Guernica (7 April 2008). "All That is Solid". Retrieved 31 May 2016.
- ^ "BOMB Magazine – X≠Y by Susan Daitch". Retrieved 31 May 2016.
- ^ "Susan Daitch - BOMB Magazine". bombmagazine.org. Retrieved 2022-01-01.
- ^ "Seasonal Amusements by Susan Daitch". Retrieved 31 May 2016.
- ^ "SUSAN DAITCH: Debtor's Prison". Retrieved 31 May 2016.
- ^ ""What You See" by Susan Daitch". Fawlt Magazine. Archived from the original on 11 July 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
- ^ "L.C. by Susan Daitch". Rain Taxi. Archived from the original on October 15, 2013. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
- ^ "Tablet Original Fiction: 'Coney Island Knock Off,' by Susan Daitch". Retrieved May 31, 2016.
- ^ "Siege of Comedians by Susan Daitch". Dzanc Books. Retrieved 2022-01-01.
- ^ "Susan Daitch - Random House Books". www.randomhousebooks.com. Retrieved 2022-01-01.
- ^ "Susan Daitch".
- ^ "Postmodern American Fiction: Table of Contents". wwnorton.com. Retrieved 2022-01-01.
- ^ Sacks, Sam (2021-12-17). "Fiction: A Year of Mirrors". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2022-01-01.
- ^ admin (15 November 2012). "Writers and the City: Susan Daitch & Washington D.C." Retrieved 31 May 2016.
- ^ "Adjunct Faculty". Hunter College.
- ^ "Women for Afghan Women". Retrieved May 31, 2016.
Further reading
edit- McCaffery, Larry (1993). The Review of Contemporary Fiction: William T. Vollmann, Susan Daitch, David Foster Wallace; Younger Writers Issue. Illinois State University. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
- Nericcio, William (1993). "Rend[er]ing L.C.: Susan Daitch Meets Borges & Borges, Delacroix, Marx, Derrida, Daumier, and Other Textualized Bodies.". Review of Contemporary Fiction (PDF). San Diego State University.
- Price, David W. (2000). "Poetical History: Historical Experience, Nietzschean Genealogy and Susan Daitch's L.C.". In Edmund E. Jacobitti (ed.). Composing Useful Pasts: History As Contemporary Politics. SUNY Press. pp. 89–. ISBN 978-0-7914-9209-3. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
- Scarparo, Susanna (1 January 2005). "Fiction as History: Lucienne Crozier and Susan Daitch". Elusive Subjects: Biography as Gendered Metafiction. Troubador Publishing Ltd. pp. 83–. ISBN 978-1-904744-19-1. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
External links
edit- Official site
- Mager, Erinrose (Winter 1987). "The Books We Teach #3: Interview with Susan Daitch". Ploughshares.
- Michael Silverblatt (July 24, 1990). "Susan Daitch audio interview". KCRW.
- "The Dreyfus Affair and Censorship". On the Media. December 9, 2011.