Susan Daitch

Biography

"It's always a delight to discover a voice as original as Susan Daitch's"
Salman Rushdie

"This is an important collection by one of the most intelligent and attentive writers at work in the U.S. today"
David Foster Wallace


Susan Daitch lives in Brooklyn with her son. She is the author of four works of fiction and her work was the subject of a recent issue of "The Review of Contemporary Fiction." Her short fiction has been included in "The Norton Anthology of Postmodern Fiction," "Tin House," "Guernica," "Bomb," "Conjunctions", McSweeney's, "The Brooklyn Rail," "The Pushcart Prize Anthology," "Ploughshares," "The Village Voice," and elswhere. Her work has been the recipient of two Vogelstein awards, research grants from NYU, CUNY, a finalist for a Howard Foundatin grant, and the 2010 Failbetter Novella Award. Her novel L.C. won an NEA Heritage Award and was a Lannan Foundation Selection. She teaches at Hunter College.

Selected Works

Fiction
Paper Conspiracies
PAPER CONSPIRACIES is a novel that circles the Dreyfus Affair, linking players far from the trial's main stage: petty forgers, photographers, cross-dressers, actors in an early silent film by Georges Méliès that documents the trial, and a film restorer who's trying to save that crumbling movie nearly a hundred years later.
L.C.
A diary kept during the 1848 Revolution in Paris goes through different translations at different points in time.
The Colorist
Two women who work on a serial comic re-invent the comic once its heroine, Electra, is terminated.
Storytown
A collection of short stories whose subjects range from historical to contemporary.
Clickable Short Fiction

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Reading at St Marks Books October 18 with Christopher Sorrentino
Reading at Book Court, Brooklyn, November 9 with Ben Ehrenreich
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