Heidi Julavits

Heidi Suzanne Julavits (born April 20, 1969)[1] is an American author and was a founding editor of The Believer magazine.[2] She has been published in The Best Creative Nonfiction Vol. 2, Esquire, Culture+Travel, Story, Zoetrope All-Story, and McSweeney’s Quarterly. Her novels include The Mineral Palace (2000), The Effect of Living Backwards (2003), The Uses of Enchantment (2006), and The Vanishers (2012). She is an associate professor of writing at Columbia University.[3] She is a recipient of the PEN New England Award.

Heidi Julavits
Julavits at the 2015 Texas Book Festival
Julavits at the 2015 Texas Book Festival
Born (1969-04-20) April 20, 1969
Portland, Maine, U.S.
OccupationAuthor
NationalityAmerican
SpouseBen Marcus
ChildrenDelia Marcus & Solomon Marcus

Early life

Heidi Julavits was born and grew up in Portland, Maine, before attending Dartmouth College. She later earned an MFA from Columbia University.[4]

Career

The Believer and others

Julavits wrote the article "Rejoice! Believe! Be Strong and Read Hard!"[5] (subtitled "A Call For A New Era Of Experimentation, and a Book Culture That Will Support It") in the debut issue of The Believer, a publication that attempts to avoid snarkiness and "give people and books the benefit of the doubt."[6]

In 2005, she told The New York Times Magazine culture writer A.O. Scott how she decided on The Believer's tone: "I really saw 'the end of the book' as originating in the way books are talked about now in our culture and especially in the most esteemed venues for book criticism. It seemed as though their irrelevance was a foregone conclusion, and we were just practicing this quaint exercise of pretending something mattered when of course everyone knew it didn't." She added that her own aim as book critic would be "to endow something with importance, by treating it as an emotional experience."[7]

She has also written short stories, such as "The Santosbrazzi Killer", first published in The Lifted Brow and then republished in Harper's Magazine.

Novels

Julavits is the author of four novels: The Mineral Palace (2000), about which Library Journal wrote, "the writing is superb";[8] The Effect of Living Backwards (2003); The Uses of Enchantment (2006), which The New Yorker called "a sophisticated meditation on truth and bias"[9] and Publishers Weekly described as "beautifully executed";[10] and The Vanishers (2012).

Other work

Julavits co-edited Women in Clothes (2014) with Sheila Heti and Leanne Shapton. The book is about how the clothing women wear defines and shapes their lives, and features the voices of 639 women of all nationalities.

Julavits is the author of the book The Folded Clock: A Diary (2015), which the Los Angeles Times described as "an engaging portrait of a woman's sense of identity, which continually shape-shifts with time."[11]

Personal life

Julavits lives in Maine and Manhattan with her husband, the writer Ben Marcus, and their children.[1][12]

Bibliography

Novels
  • The Mineral Palace. 2000.
  • The Effect of Living Backwards. 2003.
  • The Uses of Enchantment. 2006.
  • The Vanishers. 2012.

Other works
  • Women in Clothes. 2014.
  • The Folded Clock: A Diary. 2015.

Nonfiction
  • Directions To Myself: A Memoir of Four Years. 2023.

Short fiction
Title Year First published in Reprinted in
Marry the One Who Gets There First 1998 Esquire (1998) The Best American Short Stories 1999
The Santosbrazzi killer 2009 Harper's Magazine 318/1904 (Jan 2009)
This feels so real 2012 Harper's Magazine 325/1950 (Nov 2012)

Short nonfiction
  • Julavits, Heidi (23 April 2009), "Getting Lost", Granta 106: New Fiction Special - Online Edition, retrieved 10 April 2019

References
  1. "Aimee Bender's The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake". Columbia Alumni Arts League. Columbia University. June 14, 2010. Archived from the original on July 8, 2011. Retrieved June 24, 2010.
  2. "Masthead". The Believer. The Believer. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
  3. "Faculty: Heidi Julavits". Columbia University School of the Arts.
  4. "Half life : and other stories". Columbia University Libraries.
  5. Julavits, Heidi (March 2003). "Rejoice! Believe! Be Strong and Read Hard!". The Believer.
  6. "About". The Believer. Retrieved June 24, 2010.
  7. Scott, A. O. (September 11, 2005). "Among the Believers". The New York Times Magazine.
  8. "The Mineral Palace". Library Journal. August 2000.
  9. "The Uses of Enchantment". The New Yorker. November 6, 2006.
  10. "The Uses of Enchantment". Publishers Weekly. October 17, 2006.
  11. McAlpin, Heller (April 2, 2015). "'The Folded Clock' an engaging portrait of a woman's sense of identity". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 12, 2015.
  12. Birnbaum, Robert (January 10, 2007). "Birnbaum v. Heidi Julavits". The Morning News. Retrieved June 24, 2010.
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