David Means

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David Means is an American writer based in Nyack, New York. His short stories have appeared in many publications, including Esquire, The New Yorker, McSweeney's, and Harper's. They often feature realistic descriptions of extremely unrealistic situations (e.g.. a seedy motel room conversation with Jesus, a man being struck by lightning seven times) and are frequently set in the Midwest or the Rust Belt, or along the Hudson River in New York. He includes among his influences artist Edward Hopper, who is also from Nyack, New York. Contemporary Authors writes: "With Means's second collection, Assorted Fire Events: Stories, he was compared favorably to such esteemed writers as Raymond Carver and Alice Munro and praised by critics for his sharp prose." [1]

He teaches at Vassar College and is friends with fellow writers Jonathan Franzen and Jeffrey Eugenides.



Contents

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Short Story Collections

  • A Quick Kiss of Redemption (1993)
  • Assorted Fire Events (2000)
  • The Secret Goldfish (2004)

[edit] Uncollected Stories (Incomplete)

  • "Stories I Used to Write," The Paris Review, No. 137, Winter 1995
  • "Disclaimer," The Paris Review, No. 143, Summer 1997.
  • “Reading Chekhov,” Zoetrope All-Story, Vol. 9, No. 3, Fall 2005
  • “Oklahoma,” Zoetrope All-Story, Vol. 9, No. 4, Winter 2005
  • “The Gulch,” Harper’s Magazine, April 2006
  • “Nebraska,” Zoetrope All-Story, Vol. 10, No. 2, Summer, 2006
  • “The Spot,” New Yorker, August 21, 2006
  • "A River in Egypt," New Yorker, December 4, 2006
  • "Elective Mute," Esquire, February 2007
  • “Facts Toward Understanding the Spontaneous Human Combustion of Errol McGee,” Zoetrope All-Story, Vol. 11, No. 2, Summer, 2007

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2007. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2007. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC

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