Photo by christina campbell about summerlong summerlong is set over the course of a long, hot summer in an isolated midwestern college town. We asked authors, booksellers, publishers, editors, and others to share the places they go to connect with writers of the past, to the bars and cafes where todays authors give readings, and to those sites that are most inspiring for writing. He holds an mfa from university of wisconsin madison, and is the winner of a 2008 guggenheim fellowship and a 2006 national endowment for the arts fellowship. Dean bakopoulos is a great talenteverything he writes is full of insight and inspiration and the best kind of divine comedy. Dean bakopoulos darkly humorous novel summerlong features a cast of midwestern suburbanites suffocating from adulthood. Dean bakopoulos novel summerlong follows iowa marriage. Jun 30, 2016 charles baxter poses five questions to his former student, dean bakopoulos, about his new novel, summerlong, just out in paperback. Current semester faculty archives mfa program for writers. He is at work on a fourth novel, in the pines, and a collection of. Off campus writers workshop dean bakopoulos the reason. Dean bakopoulos makes a stop at the book cellar for his summerlong tour. Dean bakopoulos novel summerlong follows iowa marriage in. June 2, 2006 matt tannenbaum of the bookstore in lenox, mass.
Jun 16, 2015 dean bakopoulos is a great talenteverything he writes is full of insight and inspiration and the best kind of divine comedy. The story is poignant and weighty, but bakopoulos has written it in a way that keeps it from being downright sad or depressing. This is a book for any season, any reader, anywhereit shimmers with magic. Dean bakopoulos first novel, please dont come back from the moon harcourt, 2005, was a new york times notable book. Crew catalogs and starbucks lattes, of political absurdities and almostfractured families barely holding themselves together.
A sexy novel emerges from questions that cant be unasked. Whether you are an author on book tour or the curator of a reading series, the literary events calendar can help you find your audience. His second novel, my american unhappiness, was named one of the years best novels by the chicago tribune, and his third novel, summerlong. This is a book for any season, any reader, anywhereit shimmers with magic, lust, and love. Dean bakopoulos is the author of the new york times notable book please don t.
He is an assistant professor of english at grinnell college in grinnell, iowa. Jul 03, 2012 dean bakopoulos is a writer to watch, a novelist to cherish. Of the process she said, dean bakopouloss novel summerlong is fantastic and heartbreaking. Apr 26, 2019 bakopoulos favorite part of be ing cocoordinator is the magic occurring when a writer meshes with the grinnell community. Dean bakopoulos first novel, please dont come back from the moon, was a new. The author of please dont come back from the moon and my american. Awardwinning writer dean bakopoulos delivers a brutally honest and incredibly funny novel about the strange and tenuous ties that bind us, and the strange and unlikely places we find connection.
My american unhappiness by dean bakopoulos nook book. Editions of please dont come back from the moon by dean. Dean bakopoulos was born in dearborn heights, michigan on july 6, 1975 to a ukrainian mother and a greek father. Peter straub, author of a dark matter zeke pappas, the visionary behind the american unhappiness project, is the perfect hero for our times an age of j. Please dont come back from the moon by dean bakopoulos. People dean bakopoulos first novel, please dont come back from the moon, was a new york times notable book. He is currently at work on a nonfiction book called undoing, as well as a screenplay and a television pilot. Dean bakopoulos is an american writer, born in dearborn heights, michigan in 1975. Whats beautiful to me is when you bring people that are just great people and writers, and they see your community, and they love grinnell when theyre done, and grinnell loves them. Elisabeth tova baileydean bakopoulosbill chengdiane cooklucy corinmichael croleymeghan daumpeter ho. Jun 26, 2015 novels that are based on life on a college campus often are about young people. The new york times found bakopoulos charming but the book too frivolous and. Dean bakopoulos is an author from detroit, michigan. Dean bakopoulos first novel, please dont come back from the moon, was a new york times notable book.
Todays novelist is dean bakopoulos, author of please dont come back from the moon, my american unhappiness, and summerlong. Five questions for dean bakopoulos on summerlong fiction. Jul 12, 2015 so it goes in summerlong, dean bakopoulos s third novel, about a middleaged couples teetering marriage and the ways it is tested, by blows sudden and longsimmering, over the course. Her work has appeared in ploughshares, ninth letter, kenyon. Dean bakopoulos, who lives in iowa himself, crafts a surprisingly steamy midwestern landscape and a set of characters who will do anything to stay afloat as their lives fall apart. He ate copious amounts of borscht and cabbage rolls. Thank you for signing up to the penguin newsletter. The national endowment for the arts nea has announced the thirtyseven recipients of its 2016 creative writing fellowships in prose. Please provide email addresses for three references. Live from prairie lights prairie lights iowa city bookstore. Dean bakopoulos first novel, please dont come back from the moon. Alissa nutting, christina lee, and dean bakopoulos. His second novel, my american unhappiness, was named one of the years best novels by the chicago tribune, and his third novel, summerlong, was an. Jun 22, 2015 dean bakopoulos third book concentrates on an iowa couples marital struggles during a long, hot summer.
Feb, 2005 in dean bakopoulos s first novel, please dont come back from the moon, the hardworking fathers of maple rock, a suburb of detroit, not only leave their wives and children, they do so en masse. Dean bakopoulos is a firstgeneration american novelist and screenwriter. He is currently at work on a nonfiction book called undoing, as. Dean s third novel, summerlong, was published by eccoharpercollins in june 2015. Each of the fellows will receive twentyfive thousand dollars for writing, research, travel, and general career advancement.
Full of mirth, melancholy, and redemption, summerlong explores what happens when life goes awry. My american unhappiness by dean bakopoulos nook book ebook. Lorrie moore summerlong is dean bakopoulos at his finest. A child of immigrants, he grew up speaking both ukrainian and english, was shy to the point of psychosis, and avoided group gatherings and rarely left his mothers side. Dean bakopoulos is the author of the novel please dont come back from the moon, a new york times notable book, and the recipient of fellowships from the national endowment for the arts and the guggenheim foundation. Dean bakopoulos mfa program for writers warren wilson. His novels include please dont come back from the moon 2005, my american unhappiness 2011, and summerlong 2015. His second novel, my american unhappiness houghton mifflin harcourt, 2011 was named one of the years best novels by the chicago. Dean bakopoulos third book concentrates on an iowa couples marital struggles during a long, hot summer. Elisabeth tova baileydean bakopoulosbill chengdiane cooklucy corinmichael croleymeghan. Its important for me to point out that the term longawaited has nothing to do, technically, with the quantity, of, well, awaitment, and i only mean to say that a small handful of people, many of whom i know personally and some of whom depend on me for financial support, have been. He is on the faculty at iowa state university and the warren wilson mfa program for writers. The humor of it blacker than any joke from the trenches because some wars are won, but aging is a fight that we all lose.
It felt a bit like a shakespearean comedy in that the characters are so active we almost forget their world is imploding. But when dean bakopoulos, a writerinresidence at grinnell college in iowa decided to put the town in the summer. Dean bakopoulos dean bakopoulos first novel, please dont come back from the moon harcourt, 2005, was a new york times notable book. Dean bakopoulos please dont come back from the moon was a new york. As demonstrated in this interview, he approaches his writing with. Authors note 1 you are about to begin reading my longawaited second novel, my american unhappiness. Grinnell college is committed to establishing and maintaining a safe and nondiscriminatory educational environment for all college community members. His second novel, my american unhappiness houghton mifflin harcourt, 2011 was named one of the years best novels by. Dean bakopoulos works include summerlong, my american unhappiness, and. So it goes in summerlong, dean bakopouloss third novel, about a. His second novel, my american unhappiness, was named one of the years best novels by the chicago tribune, and his third novel, summerlong was an. He is a twotime national endowment for the arts fellow, a guggenheim fellow, and writerinresidence at grinnell college.
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