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Chris Bachelder is an American writer, e-book pioneer and frequent contributor to the publications McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and The Believer. The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ...
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Timothy McSweeneys Quarterly Concern is a semi-quarterly literary journal published by the McSweeneys publishing house. ...
Cover of The Believer, April 2005 The Believer is an intellectual yet playful magazine mainly about literature. ...
He is the author of three novels: Bear v. Shark (Scribner, 2002), Lessons in Virtual Tour Photogaphy, and U.S.! (Bloomsbury USA, 2006). His work also appears in New Stories from the South 2006, The Oxford American, The Cincinnati Review, and Mother Jones. Mother Jones Mary Harris Jones (August 1, 1837 – November 30, 1930), better known as Mother Jones, was a prominent American labor and community organizer, and a Wobbly. ...
Childhood Chris Bachelder grew up in Christiansburg, Virginia. Christiansburg can refer to: Christiansburg, Ohio Christiansburg, Virginia This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
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Teaching Bachelder has taught fiction writing and literature courses at Colorado College (Assistant Professor), Governor's School West and New Mexico State University (Visiting Professor). He currently teaches fiction workshops at the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, along with Sabina Murray, Noy Holland and Anthony Giardina. The Colorado College is a private four-year, co-educational liberal arts college located at the foot of Pikes Peak, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. ...
New Mexico State University, or NMSU, is a land-grant university that has its main campus in Las Cruces, New Mexico. ...
The MFA Program for Poets & Writers at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst is a graduate creative writing program. ...
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Sabina Murray (1968 - ) is an award-winning Filipino American screenwriter, the author of three novels, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst. ...
Influences Bachelder lists Richard Powers, Padgett Powell, Mary Robison, Joy Williams, George Saunders, Donald Antrim, Donald Barthelme, Barry Hannah, Denis Johnson, Lewis Nordan, Don DeLillo and Thomas McGuane among his favorite writers. Richard Powers (born June 18, 1957) is a novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. ...
Joy Elizabeth Williams is a Christian music singer and songwriter who lives in California. ...
George Saunders (born December 2, 1958) is an acclaimed American writer of short stories. ...
Donald Antrim (born 1958 in New York) is an author. ...
Donald Barthelme (April 7, 1931 - July 23, 1989) was an American author of short fiction and novels. ...
Barry Hannah, author of novels and short stories, was born in 1942 in Clinton, Mississippi. ...
For Denis Johnson from London, who invented the bicycle forerunner called hobby horse, see Denis Johnson of London. ...
Lewis Nordan (1938) is a novelist and short-story writer. ...
Don DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American author best known for his novels, which paint detailed portraits of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. ...
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E-book Bachelder's e-book, Lessons in Virtual Tour Photography, was McSweeney's first career-development e-book. By 2004, more than 45,000 people had downloaded the novel. McSweeneys is a publishing house founded by editor Dave Eggers, author of You Shall Know Our Velocity and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. ...
Personal Life Chris Bachelder is married to the poet Jenn Habel. They had a baby daughter in August of 2005.
Excerpts from reviews Like the wonderful Bear vs. Shark, U.S.! is a mad contraption of a novel, an encyclopedia of all our rich American armamentarium of bullshit, cant, ad copy and hyperbole (including the blurbs on book jackets). But this one carries secret reserves of heartbreak and ruefulness that propel it farther and deeper into the reader's imagination. We need novelists like Chris Bachelder who can, with a microfine sense of humor and a tragic sense of history, almost make it all make sense. We're lucky to have him. - Michael Chabon. Michael Chabon (born May 24, 1963) is a modern Jewish-American author. ...
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