Stephen Emerson (author)

Stephen Emerson (born 1950 in Sylva, North Carolina), is an American writer of fiction and other prose.

Life and work

Emerson wrote his early stories while at Duke University, where he met Robert Creeley, worked with novelist Reynolds Price, and wrote a directed thesis on Samuel Beckett. He then moved west and worked with novelists Wright Morris and Kay Boyle at San Francisco State University.

During the 1970s Emerson met several more of the writers he admired, forming influential friendships with Fielding Dawson and Edward Dorn, as well as Tom Raworth, Bill Berkson, Lucia Berlin, and Ted Pearson. A portion of his early novel The Wife appeared in New Directions in Prose and Poetry No. 37 (1978). His critical writings on Gilbert Sorrentino and Paul Bowles appeared in The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Additional work has appeared in Credences, Periodics, Zyzzyva,[1] Rolling Stock, Hambone,[2] and other small magazines.

Before returning to San Francisco in 1978, he lived in Bolinas,[3] California, Anchorage, Alaska, and Key West, Florida. During the 1970s he worked as an automobile mechanic and an editor. Later, he was a freelancer in the advertising business.[4][5][6][7] Emerson resides in Oakland, California.

Selected publications

Emerson holds a BA (French literature) from Duke and an MA (Creative Writing) from San Francisco State University

gollark: If there's some leather available, and two different production processes needing leather, how do you decide which factory gets which?
gollark: And a quota for "10 tons of nails", so they made a single 10-ton nail.
gollark: There were things with Soviet truck depots driving trucks in circles pointlessly because they had a quota of "40000 miles driven".
gollark: If your factory is told to make 100K units of winter clothing of any kind they will probably just go for the simplest/easiest one, even if it isn't very useful to have 100K winter coats (extra small) (plain white). Now, you could say "but in capitalism they'll just make the cheapest one", but companies are directly subservient to what consumers actually want and can't get away with that.
gollark: That is why we have the "legal system"./

Reviews
  • Andrei Codrescu: Neighbors by Stephen Emerson, The Baltimore Sun, April 3, 1983
  • Doug Lang: Neighbors by Stephen Emerson, Black Tickets and other books by Jayne Anne Philips, Washington Review, April–May 1983
  • Editors of Rolling Stock: The Wife by Stephen Emerson, Rolling Stock #9, 1985

Notes
  1. Zyzzyva
  2. Hambone 21
  3. "Nothing Lasts Forever"
  4. Advertising credit
  5. Advertising credit
  6. Advertising credit
  7. Advertising credit
  8. "The World in Perpetual Motion"
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