Evan Lavender-Smith
| Evan Lavender-Smith | |
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| Born |
September 6, 1977 Des Moines, Iowa |
| Occupation | Writer, editor |
| Nationality | United States |
| Notable works | From Old Notebooks, Avatar |
| Spouse | Carmen Giménez Smith |
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Evan Lavender-Smith (born September 6, 1977) is an American writer and editor.
Lavender-Smith was raised in Las Cruces, New Mexico.[1] He received a BA in English from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999 and an M.F.A. in Fiction from New Mexico State University in 2004.
Books
From Old Notebooks (2010)
Lavender-Smith's first book, From Old Notebooks, a cross-genre work combining elements of fiction, non-fiction, memoir, poetry and philosophy, was published in March 2010.[2][3] Writing in Rain Taxi, literary critic and Harvard University professor Stephen Burt called From Old Notebooks "an anti-masterpiece of an anti-novel," noting novelist David Markson's influence on the book.[4] In TriQuarterly, Barry Silesky wrote that From Old Notebooks "defies placement in a genre ... It is structured like poetry, in shifting events and tones without transition, though ... the language is ruthlessly prosaic."[5] Daniel Nester has referred to Lavender-Smith's From Old Notebooks, along with books by Jenny Boully, as "the best of the poetics of prose poetry with the I-centric essay," and counted Lavender-Smith and Boully as members of a "New Prose" movement in contemporary American literature.[6]
Avatar (2011)
Lavender-Smith's second book, a short novel entitled Avatar, was published in February 2011.[7] The novel consists of a monologue thought or spoken by a character floating in space, between two points of light or "stars."[8][9]
Bibliography
- From Old Notebooks. Ann Arbor: Dzanc Books. 2013. ISBN 9781938604324.
- Avatar. Pittsburgh: Six Gallery Press. 2011. ISBN 9781926616162.
Interviews
- “Speeds and Shapes of Consciousness” by David Winters in Gorse
- “An Interview with Evan Lavender-Smith by Edwin Turner at Biblioklept
- "An Interview with Evan Lavender-Smith" by Robert Lopez at Bookslut
- "What is Experimental Literature? {Five Questions: Evan Lavender-Smith}" by Christopher Higgs at HTMLGiant
- "Interstellar Overdrive: An Interview with Evan Lavender-Smith" by Dylan Hicks in Rain Taxi
- "The Conceptual Novel" by Michael Kimball at The Faster Times
- "Writers Respond: An Interview with Evan Lavender-Smith" by Molly Gaudry at HTMLGiant
Reviews
- From Old Notebooks
- “From Old Notebooks’’ by Stephen Thomas in Black Warrior Review
- “I Anti-Review Evan Lavender-Smith's Anti-Novel, From Old Notebooks” by Edwin Turner at Biblioklept
- “From Old Notebooks by Evan Lavender-Smith by Barry Silesky in TriQuarterly
- “From Old Notebooks” by Kevin Evers at The Rumpus
- “From Old Notebooks by Evan Lavender-Smith” by Callista Buchen in Prick of the Spindle
- “From Old Notebooks” by Peter Tieryas Liu at HTMLGiant
- “A Thought Documentary” by Michael Filippone at Red Fez
- Avatar
- “Black Space’’ by Gabriel Blackwell in American Book Review
- “Avatar Isn’t Just a Movie’’ by Giancarlo DiTrapano at Vice
- “Evan Lavender-Smith’s Avatar’’ by Mike Meginnis at Uncanny Valley
External links
References
- ↑ Hicks, Dylan (June 1, 2011). "Interstellar Overdrive: An Interview with Evan Lavender-Smith". Rain Taxi. Retrieved 2014-09-14.
- ↑ Buchen, Callista. "From Old Notebooks by Evan Lavender-Smith". Prick of the Spindle. Retrieved 2014-09-14.
- ↑ Higgs, Christopher (March 28, 2010). "Some Thoughts on Evan Lavender-Smith's From Old Notebooks". HTMLGiant. Retrieved 2014-09-14.
- ↑ Burt, Stephen (Fall 2010), From Old Notebooks by Evan Lavender-Smith, Rain Taxi
- ↑ Silesky, Barry. "From Old Notebooks by Evan Lavender-Smith". TriQuarterly. Retrieved 2014-09-14.
- ↑ Nester, Daniel. "Dig the New Prose Breed: Richard Froude's Fabric". We Who Are About To Die. Retrieved 2014-09-14.
- ↑ "Avatar Small Press Distribution page". Retrieved 2014-09-14.
- ↑ Blackwell, Gabriel (May–June 2011). "Black Space: Avatar by Evan Lavender-Smith". American Book Review. Retrieved 2014-09-14.
- ↑ Tyler, J.A. (May–June 2011). "Avatar by Evan Lavender-Smith". The Collagist. Retrieved 2014-09-14.