Alissa Quart
Alissa Quart | |
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Born | 1972 (age 51–52) New York City |
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Nationality | American |
Education | Columbia Graduate School of Journalism |
Period | 2002–present |
Notable works | Hothouse Kids Branded Republic of Outsiders |
Notable awards | Nieman Fellowship, 2010 |
Spouse | Peter Maass |
Children | 1 |
Website | |
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Alissa Quart (born 1972) is an American
Quart's multimedia story with Maisie Crow, "The Last Clinic" was nominated for a
Quart has taught at Brown University and
Early life and education
Born to two college professors, Quart grew up in lower Manhattan, attending
Books (Nonfiction)
Branded (2003)
In 2003, Quart published Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers
The book received generally favorable reviews. Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review, calling it a "substantive follow-up to Naomi Klein's No Logo".[6] It received consistent praise for its analysis from other sources such as The New York Times, The Nation, and the book industry monthly Bookpage.[5][7][8]
Branded has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, and Finnish.
Hothouse Kids (2006)
She published Hothouse Kids: The Dilemma of the Gifted Child,
Hothouse Kids has been published in
Republic of Outsiders (2013)
Republic of Outsiders: The Power of Amateurs, Dreamers and Rebels (2013),[11] describes the role of cultural outsiders who are importantly changing elements of mainstream US culture via new technologies and entrepreneurialism. In a book that Publishers Weekly called "thoroughly researched and admirably evenhanded,"[12] Quart reports on self-advocacy among people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other mental illnesses that are usually treated with drugs. Instead of allowing doctors to define them, these people espouse “mad pride” and create online communities where peer counseling replaces institutionalization. Quart's point is that all are examples of "counterpublics" who crucially re-form what is considered acceptable, allowing further diversity of options. She ends with a powerful example of Occupy Bank Working Group, or an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street headed by an ex-banker whose goals include to make a nonpredatory credit card for the needy.[11][12]
In addition to the starred review from Publishers Weekly,
Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America (2018)
Published in June 2018, Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America, "brings together original research and reporting to investigate how the high costs of American parenthood have bankrupted the middle class, and examines solutions that might help families across the country".[15][16][17] It was reviewed favorably twice by The New York Times, was featured by Terry Gross's Fresh Air, and was chosen as one of C-SPAN's books of the year.
Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream (2023)
Alissa's latest nonfiction book is Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream, "an unsparing... yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilled."
Kirkus Reviews named Bootstrapped one of the best non-fiction books of 2023.[21]
Magazine, news and multimedia work
She coined the term
Her work for .
Quart commissioned and helped originate Maisie Crow's 50-minute documentary about the Jackson Women's Health Organization, the last abortion clinic in Mississippi, writing its National Magazine Award-nominated multimedia story for the Atavist.[25]
Quart is the executive director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a nonprofit organization that funds independent reporters covering social inequality and economic justice. The organization was founded by Barbara Ehrenreich in 2012.
Poetry
Quart was a poet before she became a journalist. "Most of my poems are from experiences at the edges of, say, a reporting trip: the sensory or internal experiences, the physical American landscape I perceive rather than the one that makes it into a piece or a nonfiction book, or the emotional response to a work of art or film I've seen in the course of writing a review or an essay.... I see the 'arguments' in my poetry as being surplus: what is left over or impossible to express or too passionate or even too obvious or familiar in journalistic terms."[31]
Monetized (2015)
Monetized is her collection of poetry that reflects on consumer identities, Internet culture, gentrification, and "belatedness". Some of the poetry is
Awards
- Nieman Fellowship, 2010[35]
- Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reportinggrant, 2013
Personal life
She is married to Peter Maass, a journalist, and they live in New York City.
Published works
Poetry
Nonfiction
- Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers (2003)
- Hothouse Kids: The Dilemma of the Gifted Child (2007)
- Republic of Outsiders: The Power of Amateurs, Dreamers and Rebels (2013)
- Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America (2018)
- Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream" (2023)
References
- ^ "Nominees for the 35th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards Announced by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences". National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Archived from the original on 2019-08-02. Retrieved 2014-10-02.
- ^ "About". Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Archived from the original on 21 September 2015.
- ^ "Fall 2013 Journalism J6040 section 052 MASTERS PROJECT I". Columbia University Directory of Classes. Archived from the original on 2013-12-14. Retrieved Dec 11, 2013.
- ^ a b Rothman, Joshua (8 April 2015). "The Money Poet". The New Yorker. Retrieved 17 April 2018 – via www.newyorker.com.
- ^ a b c d Holstein, William H. (Jan 26, 2003). "BOOK VALUE; How Consumer Culture Sets Up Its Young Ducks". The New York Times.
- ^ a b "BRANDED: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers". Publishers Weekly. Nov 25, 2002.
- ^ a b Segall, Rebecca (Feb 6, 2003). "The New Product Placement". The Nation.
- ^ Brady, Martin (March 2003). "Tracking teens and trends". Bookpage. Archived from the original on 2013-09-07. Retrieved 2013-12-12.
- ^ Quart (July–August 2006). "Extreme Parenting: Does the Baby Genius Edutainment Complex enrich your child's mind—or stifle it?". The Atlantic.
- ^ "Hothouse Kids: The Dilemma of the Gifted Child". Publishers Weekly. May 22, 2006.
- ^ a b c Newitz, Annalee (Nov 8, 2013). "Gate Crashers 'Republic of Outsiders,' by Alissa Quart". The New York Times.
- ^ a b c "Republic of Outsiders: The Power of Amateurs, Dreamers, and Rebels". Publishers Weekly. May 6, 2013.
- ^ "The Approval Matrix: Week of August 19, 2013". New York Magazine. August 11, 2013.
- ^ Quart (August 2013). "A Saner Approach? New Ways of Treating Mental Illness As diagnoses of bipolar disorder soar, a grassroots movement is offering alternatives". O.
- ^ Alissa Quart personal website.
- ^ Williams, M.E. Middle class shame is real: “Squeezed” author Alissa Quart on why the American dream is crumbling Salon, June 27, 2018.
- ^ Review of Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America by Alissa Quart. Publishers' Weekly.
- HarperCollins Publishers.
- ^ "Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2023". Literary Hub. January 12, 2023.
- ^ "Review of Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream". Publishers Weekly. February 2023.
- ^ Liebetrau, Eric (2023-11-19). "Best of 2023: Our Favorite Nonfiction". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2023-11-21.
- ^ a b Quart, "Networked: Don Roos and Happy Endings," Film Comment, Aug. 1, 2005
- ^ Ebert, Roger (Dec 8, 2005). "Syriana". RogerEbert.com.
- ^ Quart (February 26, 2006). "Guided by (Many, Many) Voices". The New York Times.
- ^ "National Magazine Awards 2014 Finalists Announced". American Society of Magazine Publishers website. March 27, 2014. Archived from the original on March 30, 2014. Retrieved March 27, 2014.
- ^ Andresen, Kristin (November 1, 2013). "Full quart press". The Writer.
- ^ Quart, Alissa (Jan 24, 2013). "Two Poems". London Review of Books. Retrieved Dec 17, 2013.
- ^ "Two Poems from Monetized - The Offing". 2 April 2015. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
- ^ "A Poem By Alissa Quart". The Awl. July 12, 2012. Archived from the original on December 17, 2013. Retrieved December 17, 2013.
- ^ "A Poem By Alissa Quart". The Awl. August 16, 2013. Archived from the original on December 17, 2013. Retrieved December 17, 2013.
- ^ a b Quart and Schaff, Sara, interview, Day One, issue 10, Seattle: StoryFront, 2014
- ^ Bloomgarden-Smoke, Kara (April 21, 2015). "New Poetry Collection Depicts the Decline of Legacy Media". NY Observer.
- ^ "Monetized: Alissa Quart, Author". Publishers Weekly.
- ^ Parramore, Lynn Stuart (February 24, 2015). "Books: Feel Like Your Life Has Become Monetized? You're Not Alone". Alternet.
- ^ "News: Nieman Foundation Announces 2009-2010 Nieman Fellows". www.nieman.harvard.edu. May 19, 2009. Archived from the original on 2013-12-17. Retrieved 2013-12-17.
- ^ "Catalogue Monetized". Miami University Press.