Open City (magazine)
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Open City Magazine and Books was a New York City
based magazine
and book publisher that features many first-time writers alongside those who are well known. The editors are Thomas Beller
and Joanna Yas. It is published by a nonprofit organization
, Open City, Inc. Open City Magazine is released three times per year. Open City Books releases two to four books per year. Their first book was a collection of poetry by David Berman. The magazine and books are distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West.
Thomas Beller
and Daniel Pinchbeck
founded the magazine in 1990, and were soon joined by Robert Bingham, who later founded the book series in 1999. The magazine's discontinuation was announced 2 March 2011.
Writers published in the magazine include Mary Gaitskill
, Richard Yates
, Irvine Welsh
, David Foster Wallace
, Robert Stone, Martha McPhee
, Nick Tosches
, Denis Johnson
, Rick Moody
, Michael Cunningham
, Marcelle Clements, Jonathan Ames
, Sam Lipsyte
, Joe Andoe, Jerome Badanes, David Berman, Jonathan Baumbach, Joshua Beckman
, Matthew Rohrer
, Matthew Zapruder
, Anselm Berrigan
, Jill Bialosky
, Hakim Bey, Paula Bomer, Alba Branca, Quang Bao, Jason Brown
, Bliss Broyard, Lara Vapynar, Rachel Sherman, Charles Bukowski
, Robert Olen Butler
, Emily Carter
, Alexander Chancellor
, Bryan Charles, Alfred Chester
, Delmore Schwartz
, Cyril Connelly, Adrian Dannatt
, Jocko Weyland, Thomas Beller
, Meghan Daum
, Rick DeMarinis
, Rodney Jack
, Catherine Bowman
, Geoff Dyer
, Alicia Erian
, Edward Field, Nick Flynn
, Ford Madox Ford
, Bruce Jay Friedman
, Rivka Galchen
, Deborah Garrison
, Mark Gonzales
, Dana Goodyear, Joyce Johnson
, Hettie Jones
, Ryan Kenealy, Daniil Kharms
, Wayne Koestenbaum
, James Lasdun
, Monica Lewinsky
, Rebecca Wolff
, Amine Wefali, Kevin Young
, and C.K. Williams.
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based magazine
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and book publisher that features many first-time writers alongside those who are well known. The editors are Thomas Beller
Thomas Beller
Thomas Beller is an American author and editor.- Life :Born and raised in New York, Beller has remained a resident of his native city, which often features in his stories. He is the son of documentary filmmaker Hava Kohav Beller...
and Joanna Yas. It is published by a nonprofit organization
Nonprofit organization
Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...
, Open City, Inc. Open City Magazine is released three times per year. Open City Books releases two to four books per year. Their first book was a collection of poetry by David Berman. The magazine and books are distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West.
Thomas Beller
Thomas Beller
Thomas Beller is an American author and editor.- Life :Born and raised in New York, Beller has remained a resident of his native city, which often features in his stories. He is the son of documentary filmmaker Hava Kohav Beller...
and Daniel Pinchbeck
Daniel Pinchbeck
Daniel Pinchbeck is an author living in New York’s East Village, where he is editorial director of Reality Sandwich, a blog website centered around New Age philosophy and activism. He is the author of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism and 2012:...
founded the magazine in 1990, and were soon joined by Robert Bingham, who later founded the book series in 1999. The magazine's discontinuation was announced 2 March 2011.
Writers published in the magazine include Mary Gaitskill
Mary Gaitskill
Mary Gaitskill is an American author of essays, short stories and novels. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories , and The O. Henry Prize Stories .-Life:Gaitskill was born in Lexington, Kentucky...
, Richard Yates
Richard Yates (novelist)
Richard Yates was an American novelist and short story writer, known for his exploration of mid-20th century life.-Life:...
, Irvine Welsh
Irvine Welsh
Irvine Welsh is a contemporary Scottish novelist, best known for his novel Trainspotting. His work is characterised by raw Scottish dialect, and brutal depiction of the realities of Edinburgh life...
, David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace was an American author of novels, essays, and short stories, and a professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California...
, Robert Stone, Martha McPhee
Martha McPhee
-Career:The daughter of notable literary journalist John McPhee, she graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine and received her M.F.A. from Columbia University....
, Nick Tosches
Nick Tosches
Nick Tosches is an American journalist, novelist, biographer, and poet of Albanian and Italian descent.- Life :After different odd-jobs, Tosches started writing with poetry and rock-'n'-roll magazines, including Creem, Fusion, and Rolling Stone.Tosches' second book, a biography of Jerry Lee Lewis...
, Denis Johnson
Denis Johnson
Denis Hale Johnson is an American author who is known for his short-story collection Jesus' Son and his novel Tree of Smoke , which won the National Book Award. He also writes plays, poetry and non-fiction.- Biography :...
, Rick Moody
Rick Moody
Rick Moody is an American novelist and short story writer best known for the 1994 novel The Ice Storm, a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973, which brought widespread acclaim, became a bestseller, and was made into a feature film of...
, Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham is an American writer, best known for his 1998 novel The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999.-Early life and education:...
, Marcelle Clements, Jonathan Ames
Jonathan Ames
Jonathan Ames is an American author who has written a number of novels and comic memoirs. He was a columnist for the New York Press for several years, and became known for self-deprecating tales of his sexual misadventures. He also has a long-time envy of boxing, appearing occasionally in the ring...
, Sam Lipsyte
Sam Lipsyte
Sam Lipsyte is an American novelist and short story writer.The son of the sports journalist Robert Lipsyte, Sam Lipsyte was born in New York City and raised in Closter, New Jersey...
, Joe Andoe, Jerome Badanes, David Berman, Jonathan Baumbach, Joshua Beckman
Joshua Beckman
Joshua Beckman is an American poet. He is the author of six collections of poetry, including Take It, Shake, and Things Are Happening, which won the first annual Honickman-APR book award. He is also the author of two collaborations with New York–based poet Matthew Rohrer, including Nice Hat...
, Matthew Rohrer
Matthew Rohrer
Matthew Rohrer is an American poet.Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Rohrer was raised in Oklahoma. He earned a B.A. from the University of Michigan and a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from the University of Iowa.His first book of poetry, A Hummock in the Malookas , was selected by Mary Oliver...
, Matthew Zapruder
Matthew Zapruder
Matthew Zapruder is an American poet, editor, translator, and professor. His second poetry collection, The Pajamaist , won the 2007 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and was chosen by Library Journal as one of the top ten poetry volumes of 2006...
, Anselm Berrigan
Anselm Berrigan
Anselm Berrigan is a poet and teacher. He grew up in New York City, where he currently resides with his wife, poet Karen Weiser. From 2003 to 2007, he served as artistic director at the St. Mark's Poetry Project...
, Jill Bialosky
Jill Bialosky
Jill Bialosky is an American poet, book editor, and novelist.She studied at Ohio University and received an M.A. in Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, as well as an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. She is the author of the poetry collections, The End of Desire, Subterranean, and ...
, Hakim Bey, Paula Bomer, Alba Branca, Quang Bao, Jason Brown
Jason Brown
-Baltimore Ravens:Jason Brown started all 16 games at guard in the 2007 season after spending 2005 and 2006 as a backup to Ravens starter Mike Flynn. He later started all 16 games in the 2008 season as center. He was considered to be one of the best offensive lineman coming into Free Agency the...
, Bliss Broyard, Lara Vapynar, Rachel Sherman, Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski
Henry Charles Bukowski was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles...
, Robert Olen Butler
Robert Olen Butler
Robert Olen Butler is an American fiction writer. His short-story collection A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1993.-Early life:...
, Emily Carter
Emily Carter
Emily Carter is an American writer. She has been married to ex-punk rock guitarist Johnnie Sage Ammentorp since 1999...
, Alexander Chancellor
Alexander Chancellor
Alexander Chancellor is a British journalist. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was the editor of the conservative Spectator magazine from 1975 to 1984, and now contributes a weekly column in The Guardian, published in the "Weekend" supplement each Saturday...
, Bryan Charles, Alfred Chester
Alfred Chester
Alfred Chester was an American writer known for his provocative, experimental work, including the novels Jamie Is My Heart's Desire and The Exquisite Corpse and the short story collection Behold Goliath....
, Delmore Schwartz
Delmore Schwartz
Delmore Schwartz was an American poet and short story writer from Brooklyn, New York.-Biography:Schwartz was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. His parents, Harry and Rose, both Romanian Jews, separated when Schwartz was nine, and their divorce had a profound effect on him. Later, in 1930,...
, Cyril Connelly, Adrian Dannatt
Adrian Dannatt
Adrian Dannatt is the son of architect Trevor Dannatt, he was educated at St Chad's College, Durham University. Before arriving at university he had previously been the child star of the London Weekend Television series Just William , based on the novels of author Richmal Crompton...
, Jocko Weyland, Thomas Beller
Thomas Beller
Thomas Beller is an American author and editor.- Life :Born and raised in New York, Beller has remained a resident of his native city, which often features in his stories. He is the son of documentary filmmaker Hava Kohav Beller...
, Meghan Daum
Meghan Daum
Meghan Daum is an American author, essayist, and journalist. Although she was born in California, Daum grew up primarily in Ridgewood, New Jersey. She received her bachelor's degree from Vassar College and her Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University.Daum spent much of her twenties in...
, Rick DeMarinis
Rick DeMarinis
-Life:He taught at the University of Montana, San Diego State University, Arizona State University, and the University of Texas at El Paso.His short stories have appeared in Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, GQ, The Paris Review, The Iowa Review.-Awards:* two National Endowment for the Arts...
, Rodney Jack
Rodney Jack
Rodney Jack is a professional football player from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. He is best known for his spells with Torquay United and Crewe Alexandra and also his long-term friendship with singer/songwriter Ash Cherrington...
, Catherine Bowman
Catherine Bowman
Catherine Bowman is an American poet.Her most recent poetry collection is The Plath Cabinet , and her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The Best American Poetry, TriQuarterly, River Styx, Conjunctions, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, The Los Angeles Times, Crazy Horse,...
, Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer is a British author and novelist. He is also a journalist who writes about a wide range of topics. His published work includes four novels and several books of non-fiction, which have won a number of literary awards...
, Alicia Erian
Alicia Erian
-Biography:Alicia Erian was born 1967 in Syracuse, New York to an Egyptian father and American mother of Polish descent. She received a B.A. in English from SUNY Binghamton and a M.F.A. in writing from Vermont College. A writer of short stories, some of her work has appeared in Zoetrope and the...
, Edward Field, Nick Flynn
Nick Flynn
Nick Flynn is an American writer, playwright, and poet. His most recent publication is a play, Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins...
, Ford Madox Ford
Ford Madox Ford
Ford Madox Ford was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals, The English Review and The Transatlantic Review, were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature...
, Bruce Jay Friedman
Bruce Jay Friedman
Bruce Jay Friedman is an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor.Raised in the Bronx by Irving and Mollie Friedman, Bruce Jay Friedman graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School. He then attended the University of Missouri as a journalism major, then served as a First Lieutenant in...
, Rivka Galchen
Rivka Galchen
Rivka Galchen is a Canadian-American writer. Her first novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, was published in 2008, has been translated into over 20 languages, and was awarded the William J. Saroyan International Prize for Fiction....
, Deborah Garrison
Deborah Garrison
-Life:Garrison was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her father, Joel Gotlieb, died when she was fourteen, and she and her two sisters were raised by their mother Naomi Weisberg Harrison, an accountant. Garrison earned her bachelor's degree in creative writing from Brown University in 1986. She...
, Mark Gonzales
Mark Gonzales
Mark Gonzales , also known as "Gonz" and "The Gonz," is an American professional skateboarder and artist. He is known in the skateboarding world as a pioneer of modern street skateboarding, currently skateboarding's most popular form....
, Dana Goodyear, Joyce Johnson
Joyce Johnson
Joyce Johnson is an American author of fiction and nonfiction who won a National Book Critics Circle Award for her memoir Minor Characters about her relationship with Jack Kerouac.-Personal life:...
, Hettie Jones
Hettie Jones
Hettie Jones is best known as the former wife of Amiri Baraka, known as LeRoi Jones at the time of their marriage, but is also a writer herself. They have two children, Kellie and Lisa Jones....
, Ryan Kenealy, Daniil Kharms
Daniil Kharms
Daniil Kharms was an early Soviet-era surrealist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist. One of his pseudonyms, which was signed in Latin alphabet, was Daniel Charms.- Life :...
, Wayne Koestenbaum
Wayne Koestenbaum
Wayne Koestenbaum is an American poet and cultural critic. He received a B.A. from Harvard University, an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University...
, James Lasdun
James Lasdun
James Lasdun is an English author, poet and academic. Lasdun was one of the judges for the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize.-Career:...
, Monica Lewinsky
Monica Lewinsky
Monica Samille Lewinsky is an American woman with whom United States President Bill Clinton admitted to having had an "improper relationship" while she worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996...
, Rebecca Wolff
Rebecca Wolff
Rebecca Wolff is a poet, fiction writer, and the editor and creator of both Fence Magazine and Fence Books.-Life:Wolff received her MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop, where she was an assistant editor of the Iowa Review....
, Amine Wefali, Kevin Young
Kevin Young (poet)
Kevin Young is an American poet and teacher of poetry. Young graduated from Harvard College in 1992, was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University , and received his MFA from Brown University. While in Boston and Providence, he was part of the African-American poetry group, The Dark Room Collective...
, and C.K. Williams.
Published books
- Actual Air by David Berman (1999)
- Venus Drive by Sam LipsyteSam LipsyteSam Lipsyte is an American novelist and short story writer.The son of the sports journalist Robert Lipsyte, Sam Lipsyte was born in New York City and raised in Closter, New Jersey...
(2000) - My Misspent Youth by Meghan DaumMeghan DaumMeghan Daum is an American author, essayist, and journalist. Although she was born in California, Daum grew up primarily in Ridgewood, New Jersey. She received her bachelor's degree from Vassar College and her Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University.Daum spent much of her twenties in...
(2001) - World on FireWorld on FireWorld On Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability is a 2002 book published by Yale Law School professor Amy Chua...
by Michael Brownstein (2002) - Some Hope by Edward St AubynEdward St AubynEdward St Aubyn is a British author and journalist.-Early life:He attended Westminster School and Keble College, Oxford.-Work:...
(2003) - Karoo by Steve TesichSteve TesichStojan Steve Tesich was a Serbian-American screenwriter, playwright and novelist. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1979 for the movie Breaking Away.-Career:...
(2004) - Goodbye, Goodness by Sam Brumbaugh (2005)
- Mother's Milk by Edward St AubynEdward St AubynEdward St Aubyn is a British author and journalist.-Early life:He attended Westminster School and Keble College, Oxford.-Work:...
(2006) - The First Hurt by Rachel Sherman (2006)
- Love Without by Jerry StahlJerry StahlJerry Stahl is an American novelist and screenwriter, He is best known for his memoir of addiction Permanent Midnight. A film adaptation followed with Ben Stiller in the lead role....
(2007) - Long Live a Hunger to Feed Each Other by Jerome Badanes (2007)
- Why the Devil Chose New England for His Work by Jason BrownJason Brown-Baltimore Ravens:Jason Brown started all 16 games at guard in the 2007 season after spending 2005 and 2006 as a backup to Ravens starter Mike Flynn. He later started all 16 games in the 2008 season as center. He was considered to be one of the best offensive lineman coming into Free Agency the...
(2007) - Farewell Navigator by Leni ZumasLeni ZumasLeni Zumas is an American writer. Her first book, Farewell Navigator: Stories, was published in 2008 by Open City. Her fiction has appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Columbia: A Journal of Art and Literature, Quarterly West, Keyhole, Salt Hill, Gigantic , Open City, and New York...
(2008) - Living Room by Rachel Sherman (2009)