Background
Emily Nemens was born in Seattle, Washington, United States.
2017
Emily Nemens with Jacobina Trump and Ann Jackson in 2017.
2018
Emily Nemens with Donney Rose, Lydia Conklin, R.O. Kwon, Brandon Hobson, Garrett Hazelwood, & M. Mack. at Delta Mouth Literary Festival in 2018.
2019
66 George St, Charleston, SC 29424, United States
Emily Nemens at College of Charleston in 2019. Photo by Taylor Krauser.
2020
Emily Nemens with David Duchovny at Farrar, Straus and Giroux in February 2020.
2020
b717 Love Ln, Key West, FL 33040, United States
Emily Nemens with Paul Goldberger at the Key West Literary Seminar in January 2020. Photo by Nick Doll.
2020
b717 Love Ln, Key West, FL 33040, United States
Emily Nemens Gish Jen at the Key West Literary Seminar in January 2020. Photo by Nick Doll.
2020
Emily Nemens at the Key West Literary Seminar in January 2020. Photo by Nick Doll.
Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, United Stated
Brown University where Emily Nemens received her Bachelor of Arts degree.
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, United States
Louisiana State University where Emily Nemens received her Master of Fine Arts degree.
Emily Nemens with Dave Hardy.
Emily Nemens
Emily Nemens
Emily Nemens with Jon-Jon Goulian.
Emily Nemens. Photo by Jeremiah Ariaz.
Emily Nemens. Photo by Jules Slutsky.
Emily Nemens at The Paris Review. Photo by Matteo Mobilio.
66 George St, Charleston, SC 29424, United States
Emily Nemens with Emily Rosko at the College of Charleston. Photo by Taylor Krauser.
Emily Nemens with Сynthia Kracauer and Atom Atkinson.
Emily Nemens with her dog Willow at a Paris Review softball game in Central Park in New York City.
(Each September, the Jewish calendar begins anew with Rosh...)
Each September, the Jewish calendar begins anew with Rosh Hashanah. It is followed by ten Days of Awe, a period of reflection and repentance. The High Holy Days close with Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. On this day Jews fast and ask God to forgive their sins. Reminded of human suffering by the day's hunger pangs, they also pardon all who have wronged them in the past year and pray all those that they have wronged will grant the same forgiveness. The absolution of these worldly conflicts is given the same significance as prayers offered up to heaven, and only after this cycle is complete may the new year begin. Scrub is a collection of stories written in and about these holy days. Taken out of the context of Judaism, the stories explore the more universal process of atonement.
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2007
(Jason Goodyear is the star outfielder for the Los Angeles...)
Jason Goodyear is the star outfielder for the Los Angeles Lions, stationed with the rest of his team in the punishingly hot Arizona desert for their annual spring training. Handsome, famous, and talented, Goodyear is nonetheless coming apart at the seams. And the coaches, writers, wives, girlfriends, petty criminals, and diehard fans following his every move are eager to find out why - as they hide secrets of their own. Humming with the energy of a ballpark before the first pitch, Emily Nemens's The Cactus League unravels the tightly connected web of people behind a seemingly linear game. Narrated by a sportscaster, Goodyear’s story is interspersed with tales of Michael Taylor, a batting coach trying to stay relevant; Tamara Rowland, a resourceful spring-training paramour, looking for one last catch; Herb Allison, a legendary sports agent grappling with his decline; and a plethora of other richly drawn characters, all striving to be seen as the season approaches. It’s a journey that, like the Arizona desert, brims with both possibility and destruction.
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2020
Emily Nemens was born in Seattle, Washington, United States.
Emily Nemens began her studies at Brown University where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in art history and visual arts in 2005. In 2014 she obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from Louisiana State University.
Emily Nemens is a writer, illustrator, and editor. From 2005 till 2007 she worked at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She did image research, editing, writing, and content development for museum educational resources. In May 2009, she was hired as a communications director at the American Institute of Architects New York (AIANY) where she managed communications which included publicizing the Center's exhibitions and programs, staying in touch with AIANY members and friends, and sharing news coming out of the Center. She was the organization's press contact, and she assisted the editors of Oculus and e-Oculus to publish their magazines. She also managed AIANY's website, social media, and online presence.
In August 2011 Nemens joined The Southern Review as an editorial assistant and worked there for almost seven years, becoming the coeditor and prose editor in August 2013. Her acquired and edited work includes fiction by Kirstin Valdez Quade, Bonnie Jo Campbell, and M. O. Walsh, nonfiction by Peter LaSalle and Chris Bachelder, and art by Ed Ruscha. Stories published during her tenure at The Southern Review were selected for the Pushcart Prize anthology, Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Prize anthology, and the inaugural edition of PEN America Best Debut Fiction.
In 2018, Nemens became the seventh editor of The Paris Review, the nation’s preeminent literary quarterly. Since her arrival, the magazine has seen record-high circulation, published two anthologies, and produced the second season of its acclaimed podcast. As an illustrator, she collaborated with Harvey Pekar and others and had a cartoon in The New Yorker. As a writer, her short fiction has been featured in n+1, Esquire, the Gettysburg Review, Hobart, The Iowa Review, and Blackbird.
Nemens’ debut novel, The Cactus League, was published on February 4, 2020. A beautiful examination of American lives told through the wildly strange lens of the Arizona baseball spring training, the novel centers on a crisis in the life of Jason Goodyear, the star player of the fictional Los Angeles Lions. But The Cactus League does not simply or easily chart its hero’s trajectory, and in fact, Goodyear is absent from the text more often than he is present. What remains is a tapestry of dreams, longing, loss, success, addiction, failure, beauty, and, occasionally, love.
This novel was long in the making. Three baseball books that inspired The Cactus League are Don DeLillo's Pafko at the Wall, David James Duncan's The Brothers K, and Chad Harbach's The Art of Fielding. The book was also inspired by Nemens' childhood trips to Arizona with her baseball-loving father. She is also known for her books Scrub (2007), the collection of stories, and Butcher Papers (2014), the cross-genre project.
(Jason Goodyear is the star outfielder for the Los Angeles...)
2020(Each September, the Jewish calendar begins anew with Rosh...)
2007
Quotations:
"I’m interested in exploring subsets of American culture and thinking about what that implies for our contemporary moment, or the very recent past."
"Stories are my first form, the one dearest to my heart."
"For me, moving between writing and drawing feels like doing crawl stroke and then flipping onto your back for backstroke - still a considerable effort, but this big relief, to have the other half of you above the surface, your face to the light. And breathing is easier, too!"
"I love print and I love paper and really any book, but particularly a well-designed one."
"Identifying strengths and correcting for weaknesses in a whole manner of literary situations gives me a new set of skills and a new eye every time I go back to my manuscript."
"In terms of my favorite parts of the job, it’s probably an even split between working with authors I’ve admired for a very long time and finding new voices we rarely hear or haven’t heard before."
Emily Nemens has a boyfriend.