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Mitch Berman Writer of fiction and
nonfiction, educator, photographer, multimedia author |
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Novels · Short Fiction ·
Articles & Reviews · Multimedia · Photos
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Education · Awards,
Honors, Appearances
NOVELS:
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Cloth, G.P. Putnam’s
Sons, 1987 Illustration:
Bryn Barnard Paper, Ballantine Books, 1988
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Time Capsule, Pulitzer
Prize and PEN/Hemingway Award nominee, 1988, by Putnam’s A New York Times New and Noteworthy Book
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The Red Shoes
A Novel |
The Red Shoes,
in progress.
A reversal of the Hans Christian Andersen story (and the classic film) in
which the shoes are not ballet slippers but size-24 basketball sneakers, and
the protagonist is not a ballet dancer but a young black 7-foot NBA player, not
an innocent victim of fate but a complex Faustian antihero who, tempted by
fame, makes all the wrong choices. Herein the tale of his rapid rise, sudden
fall, and final redemption only when success is no longer possible. Synopsis here. |
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NOVELLA:
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Immoral Woman, The Gettysburg
Review,
Winter 1991 (published in different form as "Interview with an
Angel") Actress Ruan Lingyu, the subject of Immoral Woman |
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ANTHOLOGIES:
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McSweeney's / Litquake 2011 Pow Wow: American Short Fiction from Then to Now, Da Capo Press (an imprint of Perseus Press), Ishmael Reed and Carla
Blank, editors, 2009 [“The
Poorest Boy in Chicago,” a story] Read the story “The Poorest
Boy in Chicago” Sensory Impact, a chapbook, with ZZ Packer and Elmaz Abinader, June 2007 |
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Sudden
Fiction (Continued),
a collection of short-short stories, Robert Shapard and James Thomas,
editors, W.W. Norton, 1996 (cloth and paper) [“To Be Horst,” a story] |
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The Male Body,
a collection of stories,
essays and poems,
Laurence Goldstein,
editor,
U. Michigan Press,
1994 (cloth) and 1995 (paper) [“To
Be Horst,”
a story] |
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Voices of the Xiled, an anthology of fiction by young
writers,
Doubleday,
1994 [“Wabi,” a story] |
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BOOK EDITED: |
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Children of the Dragon: The Story of Tiananmen Square, a collection of
eyewitness accounts of and historical essays about the 1989 Chinese
student movement,
Collier/Macmillan,
1990 (cloth and paper) [co-editor] |
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“To These Guys,” Some Kind of
Opening, No. 6, 2021; reprinted from Witness
“To Be Horst,”
Flash Fiction Online, November 2018; reprinted from Michigan Quarterly Review Also selected for Flash
Fiction Online 2018 Anthology. "Sand,"
So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut
Memorial Library, Vol. 3, 2014 “Billy Moscow and Me,” Descant, Vol. 139, Winter 2008 “The Death of Nu-Nu,” TriQuarterly, Fall 2000
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“A Walk in the Park,” Southwest
Review,
Fall 1999 |
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“A
Story of Many Titles,”
Agni,
Spring 1995; reprinted in Temenos,
2001 |
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“To
These Guys,” Witness, November 1994
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“The
Board,”
Confrontation,
Fall 1994 |
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“Voice-Over
for the Documentary Scenes from the
Films of Konkowsky as Recalled by the Executor of his Estate,” Boulevard, Fall 1994
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“The
Urbane,”
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“Wabi,”
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“To Be Horst,” |
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“The Making of The
Making of the Illusion of Gravity,”
Boulevard,
Summer 1993 |
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“The
Day My Fingers Stopped,”
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“The Poorest Boy in Chicago,” Southwest Review, Fall 1992
“Malmö,” Boulevard, Spring
1992 [Pushcart Prize nominee,
1993]
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“The
Red Planet’s
Lean Machine”
[not author’s
title],
Omni,
July 1990 |
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“A
Thousand Steps,”
DV-8 magazine,
1988 “Time
Capsule,”
extract from the novel,
Agni Review,
1986 |
SELECTED ARTICLES
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2015-present: About 25 Articles for the
popular travel website The Points Guy, which can all be
accessed via my author
page there. |
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Home
Away from Home: A Review of the Park Hyatt New York, from The Points Guy,
September 2018 Hotel review with photos by the author |
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from The Points
Guy, March 2016 Photo essay with
photographs by Kofi Lee-Berman
and Mitch Berman |
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from
The Points Guy, January 2016 Essay with photographs by Kofi
Lee-Berman and Mitch Berman |
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10 Photos: from The Points Guy,
September 2015 Photo essay with photographs by Kofi Lee-Berman and Mitch Berman |
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Now and Then:
Beijing Revisited, from The Points Guy, October 2015 by
Mitch Berman and Susanne Lee |
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10 Photos: from The Points Guy, August 2015 Photo
essay with photographs by Kofi
Lee-Berman and Mitch Berman |
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Essay, McSweeney's / Litquake |
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“Orwell’s Bells,” eyewitness
account of |
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“J.P.
Morgan Meets Kasparov,”
article on chess hustlers in |
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Selected for
Notable Sports Writing, Best American Sports Writing 1991 David
Halberstam, editor, Glenn Stout,
series editor “Getting
the Story on |
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“Is
China Still Hopeful?”
on Mu & Thompson’s
Crisis at Tiananmen,
The Nation,
1990 (coauthor: Susanne Lee) |
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“Sweets
from Harlan Ellison,” on Ellison’s
Angry Candy, Los Angeles Times Book Review,
1989 Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Ed.
Jeffrey W. Hunter. Vol. 139. |
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“Bullets
in Beijing,” eyewitness account of the crackdown on the
Chinese student movement, cover piece for the Village Voice,
June 20, 1989
(coauthor: Susanne Lee) |
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“The
Bradbury Chronicles,”
on Ray Bradbury’s
The Toynbee Convector,
Los Angeles Times Book Review,
1988 |
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MULTIMEDIA PROJECTS:
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Instant
Konkowsky,
2009 Wrote, designed and produced for CD-ROM and website an interactive
multimedia fiction project including graphics, music, text and 40 minutes of video
(produced and directed all video segments with Susanne Lee;
programmer for CD-ROM: Eric Lee) See the full movie at
imdb.com – Instant Konkowsky at
the Internet Movie Database (imdb.com) |
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Founding
Editor-in-Chief of Hyper Hyper.
The first multimedia magazine to publish on Featured
artists included winners of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award,
three MacArthur “genius”
grants, two Grammies,
two Taiwan Golden Horses for Best Picture,
twelve Hong Kong Film Awards and two Cannes Film Festival Awards |
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POETRY: |
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Two
poems: “Nightmare with Full Buffet and Nut Scoop” and “That Time I was in a Coma for Most of a Weekend and the
Entire Month of April,” in Un Bordado De Voces, 2022 Anthology, C.D. Johnson, editor,
Rogue Scholars, 2022 Haiku,
frogpond, Vol. 40:1, The Journal
of the Haiku Society of America, 2017 Two haiku, Modern Haiku, June 1994 |
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BOOKS OF
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Remainders
of the American Century: Post-Apocalyptic Novels in the Age of US Decline,
by Brent Ryan
Bellamy, Existential
Threats: American Apocalyptic Beliefs in the Technological Era, by Lisa Vox, Jazz
Fiction:
A History and Comprehensive Guide,
by David Rife, Scarecow Press, 2008 |
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In a Dark Time: The Apocalyptic
Temper in the American Novel of the Nuclear Age, by Joseph Dewey,
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Science
Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, by Charles N.
Brown and William G. Contento, Locus Publications, 1988 |
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BOOKS OF CR
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The Fierce Urgency of Now:
Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation, by Daniel Fischlin, Ajay
Heble and George Lipsitz, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2013 Call and recall: Hybridity, mobility,
and dialogue between jazz and hip hop, Jesse L. MacBurnie Stewart, |
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A Galaxy Not So Far Away:
Writers and Artists on Twenty-five Years of Star Wars, Glenn Kenney, ed., Holt Paperbacks, 2002
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Dangerous Crossroads:
Popular Music, Postmodernism, and the Focus of Place,
by George Lipsitz, Haymarket Series (Verso), 1997 |
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Sounding Off:
Music as Subversion/Resistance/Revolution, by
Ron Sakolsky and Fred Wei-Han Ho (editors), Autonomedia, 1996 |
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Black Noise, by
Tricia Rose, |
AWARDS, HONORS, APPEARANCES
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AWARDS Pulitzer Prize and
PEN/Hemingway Award nominations,
1987,
for Time Capsule (a novel) [submitted by G.P. Putnam’s Sons] Finalist in two
book categories (novel and story collection), Michigan Literary Fiction
Awards (open only to authors of previously published books of literary
fiction), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2007 Two
Pushcart Prize nominations, 2001, for “The Death of Nu-Nu” (a
story) Pushcart Prize Special Mention, 1996, for “To These Guys” (a story), The Pushcart Prize XX: 1996,
Bill Henderson, series ed.; Pushcart Prize nomination Pushcart Prize
nomination,
1996,
for
“Voice-Over for the Documentary Scenes
from the Films of Konkowsky as Recalled by the Executor of his Estate”
(a story) Pushcart Prize
nomination,
1994,
for “Wabi” (a story) Pushcart Prize
Special Mention, 1993-1994, for “The Poorest Boy in Chicago” (a story), The Pushcart Prize XVIII: 1993-1994, Bill
Henderson, series ed.; Pushcart Prize nomination Pushcart Prize
nomination,
1993,
for “Malmö” (a story) Selected for Notable Sports Writing, Best American Sports Writing 1991,
David Halberstam, ed., Glenn Stout, series ed., for Enemies: A Chess Story,” Los Angeles Times Magazine,
October 7, 1990 West Side YMCA
Open Voice Award,
1987, New York |
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APPEARANCES |
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Selected Readings and Appearances: Instituto Lenguas Vivas "Juan Ramón
Fernández" (Buenos Aires, Argentina); City University of Hong Kong,
Kubrick Bookstore, Book Attic, Joyce is Not Here, Fringe Club (all in Hong
Kong); Shakespeare and Company (Paris, France); Master
of Ceremonies at PEN
American Center's Annual New Writers’
Reading,
Bowery Poetry Club, The Living Theatre, West Side YMCA, Biblios, Ceres
Gallery, Dixon Place, Featured writer, PEN American
Center's Annual New Writers’
Reading
(all in New York City); Elliott Bay (Seattle); Cody’s (Berkeley); George Sand
(Los Angeles); California Writers Club, Pomegranate Café, San Jose State
University (all in San Jose, California); Mountain View Performing Arts
Center (Mountain View, CA); Hungry Mind (Minneapolis); B Dalton (New
York); Lincoln Center (Chicago); Kramerbooks (Washington, D.C.) |
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M.F.A.,
Columbia University,
graduate writing program,
June 1991 |
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A.B.,
University of California at Berkeley,
social sciences,
June 1979 |
Novels
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Short Fiction · Articles
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