Born in Cheyenne,WY and raised on an Iowa grain farm, Doug Bauer began his career as a journalist and is now primarily a novelist and teacher of writing. After a 1979 non-fiction work, Prairie City, Iowa, he published three novels: Dexterity (1989); The Very Air (1993); and The Book of Famous Iowans (1997). The latter was a NY Times Notable Book. A book of essays, The Stuff of Fiction: Advice on Craft, has just been published. He has taught at Harvard's writing program and since 1993 has taught in Bennington College's MFA program.
Preceding his reading, Mr. Bauer will be conducting a three-hour workshop at the Center on the dynamics of dialogue. Call the office for further information, (914) 332-5953.
Since the publication of his first story collection, A Quick Kiss of Redemption, in the early ‘90s, David Means has published stories in Harper's, The Paris Review, The Pushcart Prize 2000, Open City, The KGB Bar Reader, The Antioch Review, and a dozen other literary journals.
His long-anticipated second collection, Assorted Fire Events, was greeted with glowing reviews in The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and elsewhere. “David Means has an uncompromising, humane vision that makes these stringent, difficult stories almost unaccountably lovely,” says the NY Times. “We’re really lucky, at last, to have a new collection of David Means’ fierce, incisive short stories,” says Rick Moody.
A resident of Nyack, NY, he is also the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts grant.
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