Steve Almond
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Steve Almond | |
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Born | October 27, 1966 California, United States | (age 57)
Occupation | Writer, essayist |
Nationality | American |
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Steve Almond (born October 27, 1966)
Life
Almond was raised in
Almond lives in Arlington, Massachusetts with his wife and three children.
Literary work
Almond's 2014 book Against Football, which documents his growing disillusionment with
Almond's books have been published in half a dozen foreign countries and translated into German, Dutch, Spanish, and Croatian. He has published more than 150 stories in magazines such as Tin House, Playboy, Zoetrope, and Ploughshares. His story "Donkey Greedy, Donkey Gets Punched" was selected for The Best American Short Stories 2010 and has been optioned for film by Spilt Milk Entertainment.[7][8]
Two of his stories were published in
Teaching
Almond teaches non-fiction to fellows in the Nieman Fellowship program, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[9]
Political activities
Almond served as adjunct professor in creative writing at Boston College for five years until publishing an open letter of resignation in The Boston Globe on May 12, 2006, in which he explained that his resignation was intended to protest the selection of Condoleezza Rice as the college's 2006 commencement guest speaker. He later appeared on the Hannity & Colmes show on Fox News to discuss his decision. Almond is a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine's Riff section, and to the literary website The Rumpus, where he writes frequently about the intersection of morality and politics titled "The Week in Greed."[10] Almond's January 2023 interview with Laura Ingraham in support of Against Football abruptly ended after he made an unwelcome comparison between the economic pressure on Fox that forced Ingraham to apologize for a tasteless tweet to the economic pressure needed on owners to make professional football safer for players. [11]
Self-publishing
After a decade of working with traditional publishers, Almond has self-published three books in recent years and become an outspoken advocate of self-publishing, which he has written about extensively in the Los Angeles Times,[12] Poets & Writers, and The Rumpus.[13]
Almond was a contributing writer to Alarm Clock Theatre Company's Elliot Norton Award-winning play PS Page Me Later based on selections from Found Magazine.
Radio and podcast
Almond is a regular correspondent on NPR's Here & Now and on WGBH, both based in Boston. On October 27, 2011, Almond appeared as a guest on the podcast WTF with Marc Maron.[14] Almond also hosted a live interview podcast series with Hallelujah the Hills band leader Ryan Walsh entitled "This Has Been A Disaster – Thanks For Having Us."[15] Almond co-hosted the Dear Sugars podcast for four years with Cheryl Strayed.[16]
Bibliography
Short stories
- My Life in Heavy Metal, Atlantic/Grove; Random House UK; Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch Germany, Fokus Komunikacije Croatia, 2002
- Algonquin Books, 2005
- God Bless America: Stories, Lookout Press, 2011
- Writs of Passion, DIY or Die Press, 2013.
Nonfiction
- Algonquin Books, 2004.
- (Not That You 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 Die Press.
- Against Football: One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto, Melville House Publishing, 2014.[17]
- Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country, Red Hen Press, 2018.
- William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life: Bookmarked, Ig Publishing, 2019.
Fiction
- All the Secrets of the World, (Zando, 2022)
Coauthor
- Which Brings Me to You: A Novel in Confessions (with Algonquin Books, 2006
References
- ISBN 9781400066193.
- ^ Almond, Steve (October 23, 2005). "Confessions of a playboy". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ "The Decade of Magical Thinking". The Rumpus.net. September 9, 2011.
- ^ "Steven Almond | Miami New Times | the Leading Independent News Source in Miami, Florida".
- ^ Almond, Steve (January 24, 2014). "Is It Immoral to Watch the Super Bowl?". The New York Times.
- ^ Almond, Steve (August 24, 2012). "Why Does Anyone Root for Incompetent, Failing Teams?". The New York Times.
- ^ Peschel, Joseph. "Year's best stories have staying power". Boston.com – via The Boston Globe.
- ^ "10/10/10: The 10 best 'Best of' books of 2010". October 10, 2010.
- ^ "Niemanstoryboard.org". Archived from the original on August 5, 2014.
- ^ "THE WEEK IN GREED #6: To Behave Like the Fallen World". The Rumpus.net. May 11, 2012.
- ^ Kaonga, Gerrard (January 5, 2023). "Laura Ingraham Abruptly Ends Interview After Being Called Out by Guest". Newsweek. Retrieved January 5, 2023.
Laura Ingraham quickly ended an interview on her show with activist and author Steve Almond after he raised a sensitive issue for the presenter
- ^ Los Angeles Times
- ^ "Presto Book-O (Why I Went Ahead and Self-Published)". The Rumpus.net. February 10, 2010.
- ^ "WTF with Marc Maron Podcast". wtfpod.libsyn.com.
- ^ ""This Has Been A Disaster" on NPR" – via www.youtube.com.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 31, 2019.
- ^ "How To Always Win When Betting On Football?". November 10, 2021.