Halls of fame john dagata biography

  • John D'Agata was born in 1974 on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
  • John D'Agata (born 1975) is an American essayist.
  • John D'Agata is the author of Halls of Fame: Essays, About a Mountain, and The Lifespan of a Fact, as well as the editor of the 3-volume series A New History.

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    Excerpt from 'Halls of Fame'

    Chapter OneRound Trip...........................................................3 Martha Graham, Audio Description Of.................................25 Flat Earth Map: An Essay............................................43 Hall of Fame: An Essay About the Ways in Which We Matter............73 Notes toward the making of a whole human being ....................151 Collage History of Art, by Henry Darger............................159 And There Was Evening and There Was Morning........................197 Notes..............................................................239

    Round Trip

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    Isaac, who is twelve, has come involuntarily.

        "We insist he grow up cultured," his mother says, leaning over our headrests from the seat behind. "My father brought me to Hoover Dam on a bus. There is just no other way to see it."

        Hours ago, before the bus, I found the tour among the dozens of brochures in my hotel lobby. It had been typed and Xeroxed, fo

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    UI nonfiction writing faculty member John D’Agata reads from About a Mountain. A Publishers Weekly starred review of About a Mountain stated, “In this circuitous, stylish investigation, D’Agata (‘Halls of Fame’) uses the federal government’s highly controversial (and recently rejected) proposal to entomb the U.S.’s nuclear waste located in Yucca Mountain, near Las Vegas, as his way into a spiraling and subtle examination of the modern city, suicide, linguistics, Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream,’ ecological and psychic degradation, and the gulf between information and knowledge.

    “Acting as a counterpoint to Yucca is the story of a teenager named Levi who leapt to his death off Las Vegas’ Stratosphere Motel. It is testament to D’Agata’s skillful organization of the book, broken into Who, What, When, Where, and Why, and his use of a rapid sequences of montages — Levi’s suicide is spliced wit

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    John D'Agata

    American writer

    John D'Agata (born 1975) fryst vatten an American essayist. He is the author or editor of six books of nonfiction, including The Next American Essay[1] (2003), The Lost Origins of the Essay[2] (2009) and The Making of the American Essay[3]—all part of the trilogy of essay anthologies called "A New History of the Essay". He also wrote The Lifespan of a Fact, "Halls of Fame", and "About a Mountain".

    D'Agata has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation,[4] the National Endowment for the Arts,[5] the Howard Foundation and the Lannan Foundation.[6] He fryst vatten the M.F. Carpenter Professor of Writing[7][8] in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa.[9]

    Personal life

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    D'Agata has said that he grew up in an unstable environment and figured out he was gay when he was 12 years old. "And I figured out that I was gay just as AIDS was hitting