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R. Clifton Spargo

R. CLIFTON SPARGO, a Chicago-based fiction writer and cultural critic, is the author of Beautiful Fools, The Last Affair of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is the Provost’s Postgraduate Visiting Writer in Fiction in the Department of English at the University of Iowa for 2013-14. A past winner of Glimmer Train’s Award for New Writers as well as their Fiction Open Contest, he has published stories in The Antioch Review, FICTION, Glimmer Train, SOMA, and The Kenyon Review, among other places.  His essays and reviews on literature, culture, and rock music have been featured in Raritan, Commonweal, The Yale Review, The Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan, Newcity, and the fashion magazine Glo. And he writes a blog called “The HI/LO,” on the interplay between high and low culture, for The Huffington Post. He has taught creative writing at Yale University, Marquette University, and the University of Iowa. He has also been a Whiting Fellow in the Humanities, the Pearl Resnick Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, a John D. and Rose H. Jackson Fellow at the Beinecke Library at Yale University, and an Arts Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

R. Clifton Spargo interviewed by Okla Elliott: The Lost Chapter

October 1, 2013 Contributed By: Okla Elliott, R. Clifton Spargo

Okla Elliott: You chose the end of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald’s relationship as the focus of your novel. What drew you to that particular portion of their lives? And, more broadly speaking, what drew you to that particular literary couple as opposed to, say, Vivian and T.S. Eliot or Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, etc.? R. […]

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Contributor Bios for Issue 7 Winter 2013

October 1, 2013 Contributed By: Agnar Artúvertin, Alexis M. Smith, Alice B. Fogel, Amado Nervo, Andrew Hudgins, Anne Barngrover, Änne Troester, Avni Vyas, Brigit Kelly Young, Calvin Haul, Catherine Nelson, Christopher Merkner, David Abrams, David Bowen, Ethan Madarieta, Feliks Netz, George Moore, George Saunders, Glenn Brady, Irene Jiménez, Ivan Young, J. R. Longfellow, Jacob M. Appel, Janusz Zalewski, Jay Shearer, Jennifer Spiegel, Jeremy Britton, John Guzlowski, Jon Thompson, Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, Katharine L. Wiegele, Katy E. Ellis, Kelly Davio, Kyle Muntz, Lee Upton, M. C. Armstrong, Marius Lehene, Matthew Cooperman, Matthew Landrum, Michael Czyniejewski, Michael Schmeltzer, Octavio Quintanilla, Okla Elliott, Paul Crenshaw, R. Clifton Spargo, Raul Clement, Richard Thomas, Rimas Uzgiris, Stephen Kuusisto, Steve Davenport, Terrance Gutberlet, Theodore Worozbyt, Valentin Dishev

Issue 7 Winter 2013 DAVID ABRAMS is the author of Fobbit (Grove/Atlantic), a New York Times Notable Book for 2012. It was also selected as both an Indie Next pick and for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program. His short stories have appeared in Esquire, Narrative, Salon, Electric, Literature, Salamander, Connecticut Review, Five Chapters, […]

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MAYDAY Magazine: Issue 7 Fall 2013

October 1, 2013 Contributed By: Agnar Artúvertin, Alexis M. Smith, Alice B. Fogel, Amado Nervo, Andrew Hudgins, Anne Barngrover, Änne Troester, Avni Vyas, Brigit Kelly Young, Calvin Haul, Catherine Nelson, Christopher Merkner, David Abrams, David Bowen, Ethan Madarieta, Feliks Netz, George Moore, George Saunders, Glenn Brady, Irene Jiménez, Ivan Young, J. R. Longfellow, Jacob M. Appel, Janusz Zalewski, Jay Shearer, Jennifer Spiegel, Jeremy Britton, John Guzlowski, Jon Thompson, Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, Katharine L. Wiegele, Katy E. Ellis, Kelly Davio, Kyle Muntz, Lee Upton, M. C. Armstrong, Marius Lehene, Matthew Cooperman, Matthew Landrum, Michael Czyniejewski, Michael Schmeltzer, Octavio Quintanilla, Okla Elliott, Paul Crenshaw, R. Clifton Spargo, Raul Clement, Richard Thomas, Rimas Uzgiris, Stephen Kuusisto, Steve Davenport, Terrance Gutberlet, Theodore Worozbyt, Valentin Dishev

FEATURED ARTIST Glenn Brady It’s All Feel, My Dear INTERVIEWS M. C. Armstrong interviewed by David Bowen A Dragon in the Hollow Kelly Davio interviewed by Michael Schmeltzer Feeding One Another Andrew Hudgins interviewed by Okla Elliott Nothing Human Is Foreign to Laughter Stephen Kuusisto interviewed by Okla Elliott A Multiplicity of Visions George Saunders […]

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