Mark Sussman has written for The Believer, Bookforum, Capital New York, and Souciant Magazine, among other venues. He teaches writing and American literature at Hunter College in New York. He lives in Brooklyn.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Of Sons and Fathers and the Excesses of Form
On "My Struggle: Boyhood Island," which explores the pains & pleasures of boyhood. You can’t choose your parents, as they say, and that means everything....
Fueled by Sentences: The Uncanny Art of Karl Ove Knausgaard
AT SIX VOLUMES and around 3,500 pages, without wizards or vampires, and bearing a title that will earn you some ...
Dubiety of the First Person: David Shields’s “How Literature Saved My Life”
DAVID SHIELDS ENTERED the literary world from the womb of the Iowa Writers Workshop as a young novelist in the 1980s. ...
