Education
He was educated at Marlboro College, from which he graduated with highest honors, and at Cornell University, where he earned an Master of Fine Arts in fiction.
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The Annotated Mixtape by Joshua Harmon (2014-11-18)
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Quinnehtukqut
(Fiction. Set in a region of northern New Hampshire that i...)
Fiction. Set in a region of northern New Hampshire that in the 1830s declared itself an independent nation, JoshuaHarmon's debut novel traces the real and imagined travels of Martha Hennessy, a girl wishing for a life beyond her family's farm. QUINNEHTUKQUT interweaves Martha's story with those of dreamers and drifters whose lives intersect hers: an American soldier scarred by the first World War, a mythical and murderous tramp seeking lost Indian gold, a man haunted by his memories of Byrd's expeditions to Antarctica, an industrialist longing to become a woodsman, and an old woman forced to leave her home due to the planned flooding of a valley. A vivid study of the New England landscape, QUINNEHTUKQUT reveals how people inhabit place and how place inhabits people.
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Scape
(Poetry. SCAPE, a poised and attentive debut collection by...)
Poetry. SCAPE, a poised and attentive debut collection by Joshua Harmon, engages with various landscapes--from the constructed and debased world of parking lots, potato chip factories, and cul-de-sac traceries to the "rural equation" of woods, fields, and "clouds' crumpled page" to create a series of conversations and engagements with the idea of the natural. Through his precise observations, Harmon defines landscape--the word and the idea--through an insightful and meticulous relationship with language. For Harmon, landscape is never static; instead his poems map a constantly changing terrain, in which the interior is imposed on the exterior as a frame for seeing it. "In SCAPE, Joshua Harmon reaches deep into the resources of our rich English, renewing the language and creating from it a physical and emotional world completely his own: his incisive and richly musical stanzas have an ever-returning vigor and freshness"--Lydia Davis.
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The Annotated Mixtape
( "Most of the time," Theodor Adorno has noted, "records ...)
"Most of the time," Theodor Adorno has noted, "records are virtual photographs of their owners." The Annotated Mixtape, a memoir of record collecting, cross-fades music with personal history and American history and culture (the 2008 recession, AM radio, Reaganomics, nuclear war) to show how music has informed the author's life.
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History of Cold Seasons
( An old fisherman recites his "sea-sorrow"; two sisters ...)
An old fisherman recites his "sea-sorrow"; two sisters search for their runaway brother and the girl they believe he keeps tied to a tree. The landscape comes alive as these stories chart families broken apart and stitched back together over the course of harsh New England seasons.
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Joshua Harmon
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Foreign the playwright born 1983, see Joshua Harmon (playwright). He is the author of an essay collection, The Annotated Mixtape (2014). A short fiction collection, History of Cold Seasons (2014).
A novel, Quinnehtukqut (2007).
And two collections of poems, Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie (2011) and Scape (2009). Harmon was born and raised in Massachusetts.
Quinnehtukqut, excerpts of which were awarded a 2004 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in prose, was short-listed for the 2008 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Harmon"s writing has appeared in various periodicals, including Antioch Review, The Believer, Black Warrior Review, New England Review, TriQuarterly, and Verse.
Harmon has taught at Vassar College, where he was also the 2013 Writer-in-Residence.
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History of Cold Seasons
( An old fisherman recites his "sea-sorrow"; two sisters ...)
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The Annotated Mixtape
( "Most of the time," Theodor Adorno has noted, "records ...)
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Quinnehtukqut
(Fiction. Set in a region of northern New Hampshire that i...)
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Scape
(Poetry. SCAPE, a poised and attentive debut collection by...)
- The Annotated Mixtape by Joshua Harmon (2014-11-18)
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History of Cold Seasons
