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After
graduating from MSU in 1996, Escanaba native Tom Bissell joined
the Peace Corps and taught English in the former Soviet republic
of Uzbekistan. When he returned stateside, he worked for several
years in book publishing. Among his editorial endeavors were
the restoration to print of Paula Fox's novels and the editing
of her memoir, Borrowed Finery; conceiving and editing The
Collected Stories of Richard Yates; and conceiving A
Galaxy Not So Far Away: Writers and Artists on Twenty-five
Years of
Star Wars. His criticism, fiction, and journalism have appeared
in Agni, The Alaska Quarterly Review, The
Boston Review, BOMB,
Esquire, Harper's Magazine, Men's Health, Men's
Journal, and
Salon.
Bissell's first book, Chasing
the Sea, was published in 2003. His
short-story collection, God Lives in St. Petersburg: and Other
Stories, was released in January 2005. He is currently writing
a travel narrative about a trip to Vietnam he took with his father,
a veteran of the Vietnam War. He lives in New York City. |
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"Bissell shines
as a raconteur, if not as an analyst, and his ebullient narrative
harks back to the travel classics of the nineteenth century,
when the journey was an end in itself." -The New Yorker
To view Special
Collections' holdings of Tom Bissell's work, please click here.
To hear Bissell read from his own work,
please visit the Vincent Voice Library, here.
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