Chris Bachelder

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Chris Bachelder (Minneapolis, 1971) is an American writer, e-book pioneer and frequent contributor to the publications McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and The Believer.

He is the author of three novels: Bear v. Shark (Scribner, 2002), Lessons in Virtual Tour Photography, and U.S.! (Bloomsbury USA, 2006). His work also appears in New Stories from the South 2006, The Oxford American, The Cincinnati Review, and Mother Jones.

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[edit] Childhood

Chris Bachelder grew up in Christiansburg, Virginia.

[edit] Education

[edit] Teaching

Bachelder has taught fiction writing and literature courses at Colorado College (Assistant Professor), Governor's School West and New Mexico State University (Visiting Professor). He currently teaches fiction workshops at the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst, along with Sabina Murray, Noy Holland and Anthony Giardina.

[edit] Influences

Bachelder lists Richard Powers, Padgett Powell, Mary Robison, Joy Williams, George Saunders, Donald Antrim, Donald Barthelme, Barry Hannah, Denis Johnson, Lewis Nordan, Don DeLillo and Thomas McGuane among his favorite writers.

[edit] E-book

Bachelder's e-book, Lessons in Virtual Tour Photography, was McSweeney's first career-development e-book. By 2004, more than 45,000 people had downloaded the novel.

[edit] Personal life

Chris Bachelder is married to the poet Jenn Habel. They had a baby daughter in August 2005.

[edit] Excerpts from reviews

Like the wonderful Bear vs. Shark, U.S.! is a mad contraption of a novel, an encyclopedia of all our rich American armamentarium of bullshit, cant, ad copy and hyperbole (including the blurbs on book jackets). But this one carries secret reserves of heartbreak and ruefulness that propel it farther and deeper into the reader's imagination. We need novelists like Chris Bachelder who can, with a microfine sense of humor and a tragic sense of history, almost make it all make sense. We're lucky to have him. - Michael Chabon.

[edit] External links

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