Carole Maso
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Carole Maso is a contemporary American novelist and essayist, known for her experimental, poetic and fragmentary narratives which are often called postmodern.[1][2][3] She is a recipient of a 1993 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction.[4]
Biography
Carole Maso was born in Paterson, New Jersey[5] and received her A.B. in English from Vassar College in 1977.[6]
She has lived in Greenwich Village, the South of France, Provincetown, and the Hudson Valley. She is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards including the Rose Fellowship, a NEA fellowship,[7] a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction,[4] and the Berlin Prize.
She is the author of ten books and is known for her experimental, fragmentary, and poetic prose. Maso's first published novel was Ghost Dance, which appeared in 1986. She is currently completing two novels: Why So Soon Asleep? and Eternity and the Dreamer.
Maso has been a professor at Columbia University in the School of the Arts and at the Brown University Literary Arts Program.
She is currently working, as she has been for the last 25 years, on a novel: The Bay of Angels. Parts of The Bay of Angels have appeared in journals and anthologies.[8][9]
Publications
Novels
- Ghost Dance. New York: Perennial Library, 1986, Template:ISBN
- The Art Lover. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990, Template:ISBN
- AVA. Normal, Illinois: Dalkey Archive Press, 1993, Template:ISBN
- The American Woman in the Chinese Hat. Normal, Illinois: Dalkey Archive Press, 1994, Template:ISBN
- Defiance. New York: Dutton, 1998, Template:ISBN
- Mother & Child. Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press, 2012, Template:ISBN
Poems in prose
- Aureole: An Erotic Sequence, Hopewell, New Jersey: Ecco, 1996 (Short fiction collection), Template:ISBN
- Beauty is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo, 2002, Template:ISBN
Essays
- Break Every Rule: Essays on Language, Longing, and Moments of Desire. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2000, Template:ISBN
Memoir
- The Room Lit by Roses: A Journal of Pregnancy and Birth. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2002, Template:ISBN
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Carole Maso - AVA". www.carolemaso.com. Retrieved 2020-10-13.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kurup, Seema (2004). A book of her own : postmodern practices in contemporary American women's experimental literature (PhD). Kent State University. OCLC 61264704.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Baer, Andrea Patricia (2008). The moods of postmodern metafiction: narrative and affective literary spaces and reader (dis)engagement (PhD). University of Washington. OCLC 262480725.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Carole Maso: 1993 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction". Lannan Foundation. Retrieved 2020-10-13.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Shengold, Nina. "Carole Maso's Dark Radiance". Chronogram Magazine. Retrieved 2020-10-13.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Interview with novelist Carole Maso '77". Vassar Quarterly. LXXXIII: 32. 1987-03-01.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.NEA Literature Fellowships: 40 Years of Supporting American Writers (PDF). Washington, D.C.: National Endowment for the Arts. 2006.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Notes on Contributors". Conjunctions. 60 (60): 379–382. 2013. JSTOR 24517310.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Carole Maso: excerpt from "The Bay of Angels," a novel-in-progress – Tarpaulin Sky Magazine". 7 April 2018. Retrieved 2020-10-14.
External links
- Official website
- WebDelSol's profile of Maso
- Rain Taxi interview with Maso, 1997/98
- Article about Defiance
- Barcelona Review interview with Maso, 2000
- Essay from Break Every Rule
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