Michael Hemmingson

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Michael Hemmingson
Born 12 July 1966
Los Angeles, California, United States
Died 9 January 2014
Tijuana, Mexico
Occupation novelist, journalist, short story writer, essayist, cultural anthropologist, qualitative researcher
Nationality American
Period 1982–2014
Genres Literary fiction, genre fiction
Literary movement culture, violence, autoethnography
Notable work(s) The Naughty Yard, Hard Cold Whisper
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Michael Hemmingson was a novelist, short story writer, literary critic, cultural anthropologist, qualitative researcher, playwright, and screenwriter. He died in Tijuana, Mexico on 9 January 2014. The reported cause was cardiac arrest (heart attack)[1] .

Publishing History

As an independent scholar, Hemmingson wrote the meditation, Gordon Lish and His Influence on Twentieth Century American Literature[2] a short TV studies monograph on Star Trek (Wayne State Univ. Press), and an ethnographic research project, Zona Norte (Cambridge Scholars).[3] At the time of his death he was working on a biography of Raymond Carver, set for publication in 2014 by McFarland & Company.

He was a staff writer at the San Diego Reader from November 2004 through December 2009.[4][5] Many of the photos that accompany his articles there were taken by San Diego's iconic brand photographer, Chris Morrow.[6] In 2010 he joined the staff of Pacific San Diego Magazine.

Film

As a screenwriter, his first indie feature, The Watermelon, was directed by Brad Mays and produced by Lorenda Starfelt at LightSong Films.[7][8][9]

He wrote the screenplay for the 2007 film Aliens, based on a one act play.[10] Maxim Dashkin produced and directed.

Real Ideas Studio produced a short documentary, "Life in Zona Norte,"[11] that was screen at Cannes Film Festival's Short Film Corner[12] May, 2009.[13]

Awards and Honors

Hemmingson won the San Diego Book Awards Association's first Novel-in-Progress grant for The Rose of Heaven and SDBAA’s Best Published novel for Wild Turkey. His media study monograph, Star Trek: A Post-Structural Critique of the Original Series, was a 2010 finalist nominee for General Non-fiction Book.[14]

He was selected as the toastmaster for the Death Equinox 2001 convention.[15]

Recipient of two Everett Helm Research Fellowships at the Lily Library Indiana University for research on Gordon Lish, Raymond Carver, and William Vollmannn.

He wrote multiple auto-ethnography articles for Forum: Qualitative Research. [16][17][18]

Influences

Hemmingson acknowledged[19] influences Harlan Ellison, Raymond Carver, Gordon Lish, and William T. Vollmann for literature, Wim Wenders, David Lynch, David Mamet, and Stanley Kubrick for film.

Hemmingson was called "Raymond Carver on acid" by literary guru Larry McCaffery and "a disciple of a quick and dirty literature" by the American Book Review.[20]

Theater

From 1995-2000, he was Literary Manager of The Fritz Theater in San Diego, where he directed, produced, and wrote many plays there, as well as for his own company, The Alien Stage Project,[21][22] that still produces theater in San Diego and Los Angeles. His full-length play, Driving Somewhere, won the 1997 Ventana New Play Award in San Francisco. It was first produced in 1995 by The Fritz Theater.

His one-act play, Iraq, was produced in the 2000 Samuel French, Inc. One-Act Play Festival in New York.

His one-act, Milk, has been widely produced and is published in the book, The Art of the One-Act.[23] It has been produced in Seattle, Los Angeles, New York, and San Diego.

His full-length play, Erotic Scenes in a Cheap Motel Room, has been produced by dozens of theaters and is available as a radio drama from Walcott & Sheridan Audio Library. Its debut was on March 11 at the Fritz Theatre.[24]

Fritz Theater original productions: Driving Somewhere, Iraq, Bosnia, Erotic Scenes in Cheap Motel Room.

Alien Stage Project original productions: Erotic Scenes in a Cheap Motel Room, Milk.

Actor's Alliance Play Festival original productions: Milk, NASDAQ, The Aliens, Happiness.

Compass Theater (San Diego) production of full-length, Stations in Summer 2009. Stations was directed by David Meredith and performed at the Resilience of the Spirit Festival.[25]

Independent Scholarship

As an independent scholar, Hemmingson focused his studies on Raymond Carver and William T. Vollmann, and the methodologies of critifiction and autoethnography. He published extensively in these areas of study, as well as critical monographs on Star Trek, Barry N. Malzberg, Charles Bukowski, blogging and micro-blogging.

In 2009, at the National Communication Association convention in Chicago, Hemmingson was awarded, by the Carl Couch Center, the Norman K. Denzin Qualitative Research Award for his paper of auto/ethnography, "Fragments of my Grandmothers."[26][27]

Radio

  • From April 2012 until his death, Hemmingson hosted the show The Art of Dreaming on Revolution Radio at freedomslips.com. [28]

Bibliography

Anthologies - Edited by Hemmingson

Novels

Fiction Collections

  • Poison from a Dead Sun/The Chronotope (Wildside Press, 2012) (Novel + collected science fiction stories)
  • Vivacious Vixens and Blackmail Babes (Wildside Press/Borgo Press, 2012) (Novel + 4 crime noir stories)
  • This Other Eden: Three Novellas and Three Stories. Brooklyn, NY: (The Dybbuk Press, 2010) ISBN 0-9766546-6-0
  • Pictures of Houses with Water Damage New York: (Black Lawrence Press, 2010)
  • Desperate Women. Rockville, MD: (The New Traveller's Companion/Olympia Press, 2010) ISBN 1-59654-831-2
  • How to Have an Affair and Other Instructions. San Bernardino, California: (The Borgo Press, 2007)
  • Seven Women and Other Stories New York: (Venus Book Club, 2002) ISBN 0-7394-2171-9
  • My Dream Date with Kathy Acker Portland, OR: (Eraserhead Press, 2002)
  • Snuff Flique Denver, CO: (CyberPsychos AOD, 1997) ISBN 1-886988-04-8
  • Nice Little Stories Jam-Packed with Depraved Sex & Violence Denver, CO: (CyberPsychos AOD, 1995) ISBN 1-886988-00-5

Poetry Collections

  • Ourselves or Nothing Rockville, MD: (The New Traveller's Companion/Olympia Press, 2010) ISBN 1-59654-860-6
  • Rwanda (Yellow Bat Press, 2003)
  • Moving in on the Conservatives Detroit, MI: (Planet Detroit Press, 1995)
  • Reaching Into the Wet Darkness. Stow, Ohio: (Impetus Press, 1986)
  • Nowhere is Safe (Samizdat Press, 1985)

Plays

  • Milk Kalamazoo, MI: (New Issues in Poetry and Prose, 2007)
  • Driving Somewhere San Francisco: (Vantana Productions, 1997)

Literary Criticism

  • Women in the Short Fiction of Raymond Carver Jefferson, NC: (McFarland & Company, 2014)
  • William T. Vollmann: An Annotated Bibliography Lanham, MD: (Scarecrow Press, 2012)
  • Gordon Lish and His Influence on Twentieth Century American Literature New York and London: (Routledge, 2013)
  • William T. Vollmann: A Critical Study and Seven Interviews. Jackson, NC: (McFarland & Company, 2009) ISBN 0-7864-4025-2
  • The Dirty Realism Duo: Charles Bukowski and Raymond Carver on the Aesthetics of the Ugly. San Bernardino, CA: (The Borgo Press, 2008, The Milford Series: Popular Writers of Today No. 70) ISBN 1-4344-0257-6

Anthologies - Appeared In

Reviews

References

  1. ↑ San Diego Reader: R.I.P., Michael Hemmingson
  2. ↑ Gordon Lish and His Influence on Twentieth Century American Literature Routledge Press
  3. ↑ Zona Norte : the post-structural body of erotic dancers and sex workers in Tijuana, San Diego and Los Angeles : an auto/ethnography of desire and addiction. Michael Hemmingson
  4. ↑ San Diego Reader staff bio
  5. ↑ San Diego Reader stories by Michael Hemmingson
  6. ↑ see www.gigglecam.com
  7. ↑ The Watermelon IMDb
  8. ↑ TheWatermelon.net
  9. ↑ B Side
  10. ↑ Aliens IMDb
  11. ↑ Zona Norte
  12. ↑ Short Film Corner
  13. ↑ Ireport
  14. ↑ San Diego Book Awards 2010 Finalists
  15. ↑ Essay about Hemmingson's selection as the Death Equinox 2001 Toastmaster, written by the organizer.
  16. ↑ Make Them Giggle: Auto/Ethnography as Stand-up Comedy. Creative Approaches to Research, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2008: doi:10.3316/CAR0102009. ISSN: 1835-9434.
  17. ↑ Here Come the Naval Gazers - Definitions and Defenses for Auto/Ethnography (2/27/08). Available at SSRN
  18. ↑ Anthropology of the Memorial: Auto/Ethnographic Notes on Cultural Rituals Associated with Death (April 15, 2008). Available at SSRN
  19. ↑ see http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/thedreampeople/aug04/hemmingson.html
  20. ↑ American Book Review, Vol. 3, 1996, review of Crack Hotel by Daniella Mayz
  21. ↑ Heavy fare Nicky Silver returns to San Diego with taboo-rich Food Chain by Anne Marie Welsh (Apr 30, 2004) The San Diego Union - Tribune, Lifestyle section
  22. ↑ Stylized comedy is Honeymoon promise by Michael Phillips (Apr 12, 1996) The San Diego Union - Tribune, Lifestyle section "While continuing their association with the Fritz producing director Karin Williams and literary manager Michael Hemmingson have formed Alien Stage Project"
  23. ↑ Art of the One-Act: An Anthology
  24. ↑ Erotic Scenes debut Playbill article
  25. ↑ San Diego News Network review: Resilience of the Spirit Festival; July 16, 2009
  26. ↑ Black Lawrence Wordpress
  27. ↑ Carl Couch Center Norman K. Denzin Award
  28. ↑ Revolution Radio Schedule
  29. ↑ Michael Hemmingson's The Barbie Wrecking Yard Google Books archived excerpt
  30. ↑ Michael Hemmingson's Tuck Google Books archived excerpt
  31. ↑ Michael Hemmingson's Hollow Hills Google Books archived excerpt

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