Michael Atkinson (writer)
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Michael Atkinson is an American writer, poet and film critic. His debut novel
is Hemingway Deadlights (St. Martin's Press
/Minotaur Books, 2009), and he has written film and culture critiques for The Believer
, Sight & Sound
, The Guardian
, Film Comment
, The Village Voice
, In These Times
, True/Slant
, SPiN
, Maxim
, The Boston Phoenix, Details, The Progressive, Moving Image Source
, IFC.com, TCM.com, Movieline, The Poetry Foundation, Chicago Reader, LA Weekly
, The Stranger, The American Prospect
, City Paper (Baltimore), Modern Painters
, and other publications.
His volume Exile Cinema: Filmmakers at Work Beyond Hollywood (SUNY Press) featured work by Guy Maddin
, Stuart Klawans
, Chuck Stephens, Dennis Lim, Ed Park, Jonathan Rosenbaum
, Joshua Clover
, Jessica Winter, David Thompson
, Howard Hampton
, David Sterritt
, and others.
His debut book of poetry is One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train (Word Works
), and his poems have also appeared in a number of journals, including The Threepenny Review
, Ontario Review, Chelsea, Michigan Quarterly Review
, Prairie Schooner, Epoch
, Crazyhorse
, The Seneca Review, New Letters, Cimarron Review, and The Laurel Review, among others.
Since 1997, Atkinson has taught at Long Island University
/C.W. Post.
He has been the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts
fellowship, and was a featured writer in September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond (ed. William Heyen
, Etruscan Press, 2002), The Best American Movie Writing 2001 (John Landis
& Jason Shinder
, eds., Avalon/Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2001), Celluloid Jukebox (Jonathan Romney & Adrian Wooton, eds., British Film Institute
, 1997), and The Best American Poetry
1993 (eds. Louise Gluck
& David Lehman
, Collier/Macmillan
, 1993).
Atkinson also co-authored and co-produced the pilot for the proposed TV series, Babylon Fields
(2007), produced by 20th Century Fox
for NBC
.
Debut novel
A debut novel is the first novel an author publishes. Debut novels are the author's first opportunity to make an impact on the publishing industry, and thus the success or failure of a debut novel can affect the ability of the author to publish in the future...
is Hemingway Deadlights (St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in the Flatiron Building in New York City. Currently, St. Martin's Press is one of the United States' largest publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under eight imprints, which include St. Martin's Press , St...
/Minotaur Books, 2009), and he has written film and culture critiques for The Believer
The Believer (magazine)
The Believer is a United States literary magazine that also covers other arts and general culture. Founded and designed in 2003 by the writer and publisher Dave Eggers, it is edited by Vendela Vida, Heidi Julavits and Ed Park...
, Sight & Sound
Sight & Sound
Sight & Sound is a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute .Sight & Sound was first published in 1932 and in 1934 management of the magazine was handed to the nascent BFI, which still publishes the magazine today...
, The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
, Film Comment
Film Comment
Film Comment is an arts and culture magazine published by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, of which it is the official publication. Film Comment features critical reviews and in-depth analysis of mainstream, art-house, and avant-garde filmmaking from around the world...
, The Village Voice
The Village Voice
The Village Voice is a free weekly newspaper and news and features website in New York City that features investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts and music coverage, and events listings for New York City...
, In These Times
In These Times
In These Times is a politically progressive monthly magazine of news and opinion published by the Institute for Public Affairs in Chicago...
, True/Slant
True/Slant
True/Slant , a company based in a loft in SoHo in New York City funded with $3 million in capital by Forbes Media and Fuse Capital and sold to Forbes in May 2010, was an original content news network....
, SPiN
Spin
-In mathematics, science and technology:* Electron magnetic dipole moment* Rotation or spin, a movement of an object in a circular motion* Social Phobia Inventory, abbreviated as SPIN, a psychological test of social anxiety disorder....
, Maxim
Maxim (magazine)
Maxim is an international men's magazine based in the United Kingdom and known for its pictorials featuring popular actresses, singers, and female models, sometimes pictured dressed, often pictured scantily dressed but not fully nude....
, The Boston Phoenix, Details, The Progressive, Moving Image Source
Moving image source
Moving Image Source is a major new website of the Museum of the Moving Image devoted to the history of film, television, and digital media...
, IFC.com, TCM.com, Movieline, The Poetry Foundation, Chicago Reader, LA Weekly
LA Weekly
LA Weekly is a free weekly tabloid-sized "alternative weekly" in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1978 by Editor/Publisher Jay Levin and a board of directors that included actor-producer Michael Douglas...
, The Stranger, The American Prospect
The American Prospect
The American Prospect is a monthly American political magazine dedicated to American liberalism. Based in Washington, DC, The American Prospect is a journal "of liberal ideas, committed to a just society, an enriched democracy, and effective liberal politics" which focuses on United States politics...
, City Paper (Baltimore), Modern Painters
Modern Painters
Modern Painters is book on art by John Ruskin which argues that recent painters emerging from the tradition of the picturesque are superior in the art of landscape to the old masters. The book was primarily written as a defence of the later work of J.M.W. Turner. Ruskin used the book to argue...
, and other publications.
His volume Exile Cinema: Filmmakers at Work Beyond Hollywood (SUNY Press) featured work by Guy Maddin
Guy Maddin
Guy Maddin, OM is a Canadian screenwriter, director, cinematographer and film editor of both features and short films from Winnipeg, Manitoba...
, Stuart Klawans
Stuart Klawans
Stuart Klawans has been the film critic for The Nation since 1988. He won the 2007 National Magazine Award for Reviews and Criticism and he received a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship to work on a critical study of Preston Sturges...
, Chuck Stephens, Dennis Lim, Ed Park, Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum is an American film critic. Rosenbaum was the head film critic for the Chicago Reader from 1987 until 2008, when he retired at the age of 65...
, Joshua Clover
Joshua Clover
Joshua Clover is a poet, critic, journalist and author. He has appeared in three editions of Best American Poetry, is a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize, and recipient of an individual grant from the NEA; his first book of poetry, Madonna anno domini, received the Walt Whitman Award from the...
, Jessica Winter, David Thompson
David Thompson
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, Howard Hampton
Howard Hampton
Howard George Hampton, MPP is a Canadian lawyer and politician. He has served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada, since 1987 as the Member of Provincial Parliament from the northern riding of Kenora—Rainy River. A member of the Ontario New Democratic Party, he was also the party's...
, David Sterritt
David Sterritt
David Sterritt is a film critic, author and scholar. He is most notable for his work on Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard, and his many years as the Film Critic for The Christian Science Monitor, where, from 1968 until his retirement in 2005, he championed avant garde cinema, theater and music...
, and others.
His debut book of poetry is One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train (Word Works
Word Works
Word Works is thirty-seven year old independent literary press based in Washington, DC. The press was founded in 1974 and has published 67 titles including works by Grace Cavalieri, Fred Marchant, Donna Denizé, Christopher Bursk, Frannie Lindsay, Jay Rogoff, and Enid Shomer...
), and his poems have also appeared in a number of journals, including The Threepenny Review
The Threepenny Review
The Threepenny Review is an American literary magazine founded in 1980. It is published in Berkeley, California by founding editor Wendy Lesser. Maintaining a quarterly schedule , it offers fiction, memoirs, poetry, essays and criticism to a readership of 10,000...
, Ontario Review, Chelsea, Michigan Quarterly Review
Michigan Quarterly Review
The Michigan Quarterly Review is an American literary magazine founded in 1962 and published at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.The quarterly publishes art, essays, interviews, memoirs, fiction, poetry, and book reviews as well as writing "in a wide variety of research areas", according to...
, Prairie Schooner, Epoch
Epoch (magazine)
Epoch is a three-times-a-year American literary magazine founded in 1947 and published by Cornell University. The widely respected magazine has published well-known authors and award-winning work including stories reprinted in The Best American Short Stories series and poems later included in The...
, Crazyhorse
Crazyhorse (magazine)
Crazyhorse is an American magazine that publishes fiction, poetry, and essays. It is published twice yearly by the Department of English and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina...
, The Seneca Review, New Letters, Cimarron Review, and The Laurel Review, among others.
Since 1997, Atkinson has taught at Long Island University
Long Island University
Long Island University is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian institution of higher education in the U.S. state of New York.-History:...
/C.W. Post.
He has been the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts
New York Foundation for the Arts
The New York Foundation for the Arts was created in conjunction the in 1971. The organization gives grants to individual artists and writers and developing arts organizations with a mission to '.'-NYFA's Programs:...
fellowship, and was a featured writer in September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond (ed. William Heyen
William Heyen
William Helmuth Heyen is an American poet, editor, and literary critic. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Suffolk County...
, Etruscan Press, 2002), The Best American Movie Writing 2001 (John Landis
John Landis
John David Landis is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer. He is known for his comedies, his horror films, and his music videos with singer Michael Jackson.-Early life and career:...
& Jason Shinder
Jason Shinder
Jason Shinder is an American poet who authored three books and founded the YMCA National Writer's Voice. His last book, Stupid Hope , was released posthumously....
, eds., Avalon/Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2001), Celluloid Jukebox (Jonathan Romney & Adrian Wooton, eds., British Film Institute
British Film Institute
The British Film Institute is a charitable organisation established by Royal Charter to:-Cinemas:The BFI runs the BFI Southbank and IMAX theatre, both located on the south bank of the River Thames in London...
, 1997), and The Best American Poetry
The Best American Poetry
The Best American Poetry series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing seventy-five poems.The series, begun by poet and editor David Lehman in 1988, has a different guest editor every year...
1993 (eds. Louise Gluck
Louise Glück
Louise Elisabeth Glück is an American poet of Hungarian Jewish heritage. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2003, after serving as a Special Bicentennial Consultant three years prior in 2000....
& David Lehman
David Lehman
David Lehman is a poet and the series editor for The Best American Poetry series. He teaches at The New School in New York City.-Career:...
, Collier/Macmillan
Macmillan Publishers
Macmillan Publishers Ltd, also known as The Macmillan Group, is a privately held international publishing company owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. It has offices in 41 countries worldwide and operates in more than thirty others.-History:...
, 1993).
Atkinson also co-authored and co-produced the pilot for the proposed TV series, Babylon Fields
Babylon Fields
Babylon Fields was a proposed television series that featured reanimated zombies as characters. Rather than being portrayed as malevolent monsters, however, the recently deceased return to their homes and attempt to pick up their lives. The pilot had elements of black comedy as well as drama...
(2007), produced by 20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation — also known as 20th Century Fox, or simply 20th or Fox — is one of the six major American film studios...
for NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
.
External links
- http://www.zeroforconduct.com Zero for Conduct (blog)
- http://www.mike-atkinson.com Atkinson's author site
- http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3315295143249630002# Babylon Fields, TV pilot