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About the Author
Susan Daitch is the author of two novels, L.C. (Lannan Foundation Selection and NEA Heritage Award), The Colorist, and a collection of short stories, Storytown. Her work has appeared in Tinhouse, Conjunctions, Guernica, Bomb, Ploughshares, failbetter.com, McSweeney's The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Fiction VLS, The Brooklyn Rail. Her work was featured in The Review of Contemporary Fiction along with William Vollman and David Foster Wallace. Her fiction has been the subject of The Poetics of Postmodernism (Linda Hucheons, Routledge), History Made, History Imagined (David Price, University of Illinois), among others. She has taught at Barnard College, Columbia University, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She currently teaches at Hunter College.
Reviews
"In 1993, Susan Daitch was showcased in the Review of Contemporary Fiction alongside David Foster Wallace and William T. Vollmann. Her first novel, L.C., is an unheralded masterpiece, but due to its politics (and the gendered world of literary criticism) it never achieved the critical or commercial success of her peers Wallace and Vollmann. Nonetheless, for many readers the arrival of a new book from Daitch is the most exciting literary event of the year. In Paper Conspiracies, Daitch approaches the Dreyfus Affair, the defining incident of modern anti-semitism before the Shoah, by focusing on the fringes of the case, particularly the film-maker Georges Melies, who made a silent film about Dreyfus. Fin de siecle France is drawn into the present by a film restorer trying to save the Melies movie. As expected, Daitch's prose is intelligent and beautiful."--Hey Small Press "Like Herzog's study of Viennese literature, Susan Daitch's third novel, Paper Conspiracies (City Lights, August), shuttles from the fin de siecle to the present, only in France. Daitch takes her impetus from the silent movie about Alfred Dreyfus made by the cinematic pioneer Georges Melies, best known for his fanciful A Trip to the Moon (1902). A film in which one of the first masters of special effects took on a sensational political event makes good sense as a jumping-off point for Daitch's formally experimental, intertextual fiction. She's the sort of writer who favors footnotes and who imagines how the Yiddish-speaker who busted Lenny Bruce felt; David Foster Wallace once called her 'one of the most intelligent and attentive writers at work in the U.S. today.'"--Tablet Magazine
Book Information
ISBN 9780872865143
Author Susan Daitch
Format Paperback
Page Count 264
Imprint City Lights Books
Publisher City Lights Books
Weight(grams) 425g