Sandra Novack
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | Chicago, United States |
| Introduction | My novel Precious (Random House) was named a Booklist Top Ten Debut of 2009. My collection EVERYONE BUT YOU (Random House) is coming out September 13, 2011. My work has appeared in over thirty literary venues, including The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, The Chattahoochee Review, The Mississippi Review, Gulf Coast, and Descant. My story "Memphis" was honored in the "100 Distinguished Stories" section of Best American Short Stories 2007, selected by Stephen King. Three of my short stories have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. I'm the recipient of an Illinois Artist's Grant and a Christopher Isherwood grant for outstanding fiction. I hold a BS, a MA in Lit. and a MFA in fiction writing. I have taught on-line and also at traditional colleges. |
| Interests | Good ethnic food, good wine, good literature, people, outdoor activities, philosophy and art, my husband, my dog. |
| Favorite movies | Taxi Driver, Cool Hand Luke, Patton, Adaptation, Easy Rider, The Hours, Addams Family Values, The Graduate, Almost Famous, Pan's Labyrinth, Capote, Short Cuts, Magnolia, Fargo, The Breakfast Club, Jaws, The Thin Red Line, Crash, Bringing Out the Dead, The House of Sand and Fog, I Heart Huckabees, Notes on a Scandal. The Departed. There Will Be Blood. No Country for Old Men. More. Too many, probably. |
| Favorite music | Nina Simone, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, REM, The Shins, Nick Drake, The Ramones, The Clash, The Beatles, Indigo Girls, David Bowie, Beck. More. |
| Favorite books | Atonement, Moby-Dick, The Hours, Ulysses, Housekeeping, The Corrections, King Lear, White Noise, The Crying of Lot 49, Go Down, Moses, The Road. ANYTHING--go ahead, try me--by Raymond Carver. |