Susan Daitch
{{short description|American novelist}}
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Susan Daitch is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. In 1996 David Foster Wallace called her "one of the most intelligent and attentive writers at work in the U.S. today."On the back cover of Daitch’s Storytown: “These are fine and moving stories about the death of meaning, about persons trying to decode the seas of signals in which they float and drown, failing. Their flaw is their triumph: they try—and so the stories are also about courage, that most tragic of virtues. This is an important collection by one of the most intelligent and attentive writers at work in the U.S. today.”
Early life and education
Susan Daitch was born in New Haven, Connecticut.{{cite book |last1=Scarparo |first1=Susanna |title=Elusive Subjects: Biography as Gendered Metafiction |date=1 January 2005 |publisher=Troubador Publishing Ltd |isbn=978-1-904744-19-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m-CPN2a-n3IC&pg=PA85 |access-date=2 November 2024 |language=en}} She graduated from Barnard College{{cite web|url=http://alum.barnard.edu/s/1133/index2.aspx?sid=1133&gid=1&pgid=252&cid=3547&ecid=3547&ciid=9101&crid=0|title=Barnard College – Susan Daitch '77 and B.G. Firmani '90 awarded NYFA fellowships|publisher=|accessdate=31 May 2016}} and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.{{Cite book|last=Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program|url=http://archive.org/details/independentstudy93whit|title=Independent study program: 25 years (1968-1993) : Whitney Museum of American Art.|date=1993|publisher=Whitney Museum of American Art|others=Frances Mulhall Achilles Library Whitney Museum of American Art|language=English}}
Career
She is the author of seven novels and a collection of short stories.{{cite web |last1=Daitch |first1=Susan |title=Susan Daitch's Books |url=https://www.susandaitch.net/books |website=www.susandaitch.net |access-date=31 December 2021}}{{cite web |title=SIEGE OF COMEDIANS BY SUSAN DAITCH |url=https://www.dzancbooks.org/our-books/siege-of-comedians |website=www.dzancbooks.org |publisher=Dzanc Book |access-date=31 December 2021}}
Her work has appeared in Guernica,{{cite web|url=http://www.guernicamag.com/fiction/548/all_that_is_solid/|title=All That is Solid|first=Guernica|last=Magazine|date=7 April 2008|publisher=|accessdate=31 May 2016}} Bomb,{{cite web|url=http://bombsite.com/issues/18/articles/877|title=BOMB Magazine – X≠Y by Susan Daitch|publisher=|accessdate=31 May 2016}}{{Cite web|title=Susan Daitch - BOMB Magazine|url=https://bombmagazine.org/authors/susan-daitch/|access-date=2022-01-01|website=bombmagazine.org}} Pacific Review,{{cite web|url=http://pacificreview.sdsu.edu/SUSANdaitch/daitch.html|title=Seasonal Amusements by Susan Daitch|publisher=|accessdate=31 May 2016}} The Barcelona Review,{{cite web|url=http://barcelonareview.com/70/e_sd.html|title=SUSAN DAITCH: Debtor's Prison|publisher=|accessdate=31 May 2016}} Fault Magazine,{{cite web|url=http://www.fawltmag.com/one/whatyousee_pg7.html|title="What You See" by Susan Daitch|publisher=Fawlt Magazine|accessdate=31 May 2016|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711043051/http://www.fawltmag.com/one/whatyousee_pg7.html|archivedate=11 July 2015}} Rain Taxi,{{cite web|url=http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2002spring/daitch.shtml|title=L.C. by Susan Daitch|publisher=Rain Taxi|accessdate=31 May 2016|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131015192745/http://raintaxi.com/online/2002spring/daitch.shtml |archivedate=October 15, 2013}} Tablet,{{cite web|url=http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/122122/coney-island-knock-off|title=Tablet Original Fiction: 'Coney Island Knock Off,' by Susan Daitch|date=23 January 2013 |publisher=|accessdate=May 31, 2016}} Tin House,{{Cite web|title=Siege of Comedians by Susan Daitch|url=https://www.dzancbooks.org/our-books/siege-of-comedians|access-date=2022-01-01|website=Dzanc Books|language=en-US}} McSweeney's,{{Cite web|title=Susan Daitch - Random House Books|url=http://www.randomhousebooks.com/authors/susan-daitch/|access-date=2022-01-01|website=www.randomhousebooks.com}} Conjunctions,{{Cite web|title=Susan Daitch|url=http://www.conjunctions.com/multimedia/contributors/susan-daitch}} The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Fiction,{{Cite web|title=Postmodern American Fiction: Table of Contents|url=https://wwnorton.com/college/english/pmaf/pmaftoc.htm|access-date=2022-01-01|website=wwnorton.com}} and elsewhere.
Her novel Siege of Comedians was listed as one of the best books of 2021{{Cite news|last=Sacks|first=Sam|date=2021-12-17|title=Fiction: A Year of Mirrors|language=en-US|work=Wall Street Journal|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/fiction-book-review-looking-back-2021-a-year-of-mirrors-11639747550|access-date=2022-01-01|issn=0099-9660}} in The Wall Street Journal.
She taught at Barnard College, Columbia University, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.{{cite web|url=http://www.blogcitylights.com/2012/11/15/writers-and-the-city-susan-daitch-washington-d-c/|title=Writers and the City: Susan Daitch & Washington D.C.|last=admin|date=15 November 2012|publisher=|accessdate=31 May 2016}}
A 2012 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, she is a supporter of Women for Afghan Women.{{cite web|url=http://www.womenforafghanwomen.org/index.php/blog/blogger/listings/susan|title=Women for Afghan Women|publisher=|accessdate=May 31, 2016}}
Bibliography
- L.C. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987; Dalkey Archive Press, 2002
- The Colorist. Vintage Contemporaries, 1990
- Storytown: Stories. Dalkey Archive Press, 1996
- Paper Conspiracies. City Lights Books, 2011
- Fall Out. Madras Press, 2013
- The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir. City Lights Books, 2016
- White Lead: A Novel of Suspense. Alibi, 2016 (e-book)
- Siege of Comedians. Dzanc Books, 2021
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book|first=Larry|last= McCaffery|title=The Review of Contemporary Fiction: William T. Vollmann, Susan Daitch, David Foster Wallace; Younger Writers Issue|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G2a-NwAACAAJ|accessdate=9 July 2013|year=1993|publisher=Illinois State University}}
- {{cite book|first=William |last=Nericcio|year=1993|chapter=Rend[er]ing L.C.: Susan Daitch Meets Borges & Borges, Delacroix, Marx, Derrida, Daumier, and Other Textualized Bodies.|url=http://malas.sdsu.edu/textmex/nericcioLCdaitchBORGES.pdf |publisher=San Diego State University|title=Review of Contemporary Fiction}}
- {{cite book|editor=Edmund E. Jacobitti|first=David W.|last=Price|chapter=Poetical History: Historical Experience, Nietzschean Genealogy and Susan Daitch's L.C.|title=Composing Useful Pasts: History As Contemporary Politics|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YOy98WmczUoC&pg=PA89|accessdate=9 July 2013|year=2000|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-0-7914-9209-3|pages=89–}}
- {{cite book|first=Susanna|last= Scarparo|chapter=Fiction as History: Lucienne Crozier and Susan Daitch |title=Elusive Subjects: Biography as Gendered Metafiction|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m-CPN2a-n3IC&pg=PA83|accessdate=9 July 2013|date=1 January 2005|publisher=Troubador Publishing Ltd|isbn=978-1-904744-19-1|pages=83–}}
External links
- [http://www.susandaitch.net/ Official site]
- {{cite web|url=http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/the-books-we-teach-3-interview-with-susan-daitch/|title=The Books We Teach #3: Interview with Susan Daitch|publisher=Ploughshares|first=Erinrose|last= Mager|date=Winter 1987}}
- {{cite web|url=http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/bw/bw900724susan_daitch|title=Susan Daitch audio interview|date=July 24, 1990|author=Michael Silverblatt |publisher=KCRW}}
- {{cite web|url=http://www.onthemedia.org/tags/susan_daitch/#13733914160142&%7B%22apiResults%22%3A%7B%22callId%22%3A1410966%2C%22data%22%3A%7B%22isAuthenticated%22%3Afalse%7D%2C%22textStatus%22%3A%22success%22%7D%7D|title=The Dreyfus Affair and Censorship |date= December 9, 2011|publisher=On the Media}}
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