Stephen Dixon
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Stephen Dixon (born 1936, New York, NY) is an author of novels and short stories. He is a former faculty member of the Johns Hopkins University. He is among the most prolific authors of short stories in the history of American letters, with over 500 published. He has been nominated for the National Book Award twice, in 1991 for Frog and in 1995 for Interstate. His work is characterized by mordant humor, obsessive refigurings of simple stories, long sentences, and a frank attention to human sexuality. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1958. He has cited Fyodor Dostoevsky, Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka and Ernest Hemingway as his favorite authors.
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[edit] Works
[edit] Novels
- Work (Street Fiction Press, 1977)
- Too Late (Harper & Row, 1978)
- Fall & Rise (North Point Press, 1985)
- Garbage (Cane Hill Press, 1988)
- Frog (British American Publishing, 1991)
- Interstate (Henry Holt, 1995)
- Gould (Henry Holt, 1997)
- 30: Pieces of a Novel (Henry Holt, 1999)
- Tisch (Red Hen Press, 2000) (his first completed novel, written 1961-1969)
- I. (McSweeney's, 2002)
- Old Friends (Melville House, 2004)
- Phone Rings (Melville House, 2005)
- The End of I. (McSweeney's, 2006)
- Meyer (Melville House, 2007)
[edit] Story collections
- No Relief (Street Fiction Press, 1976)
- Quite Contrary: The Mary and Newt Story (Harper & Row, 1979)
- 14 Stories (Johns Hopkins, 1980)
- Movies: Seventeen Stories (North Point Press, 1983)
- Time to Go (Will and Magna Stories) (Johns Hopkins, 1984)
- The Play and Other Stories (Coffee House Press, 1988)
- Love and Will: Twenty Stories (Paris Review Editions / British American Publishing, 1989)
- All Gone: 18 Short Stories (Johns Hopkins, 1990)
- Friends: More Will and Magna Stories (Asylum Arts, 1990)
- Long Made Short (Johns Hopkins, 1994)
- The Stories of Stephen Dixon (Henry Holt, 1994)
- Man on Stage: Play Stories (Hi Jinx Press, 1996)
- Sleep (Coffee House Press, 1999)
- The Switch (Rain Taxi, 1999) (a single story; Rain Taxi Brainstorm Series, #3)
[edit] External links
- 2002 profile of Dixon in The Johns Hopkins News-Letter
- "The Plug", Dixon on Thomas Bernhard, at Rain Taxi
- 1997 article about Dixon in The Johns Hopkins News-Letter
- Excerpt from the novel I., at McSweeney's Internet Tendency, with links to other excerpts, and to comments on Dixon's work by Jonathan Lethem and J. Robert Lennon.
- February 2007 article about Dixon in Baltimore City Paper
