http://www.metafilter.com/tags/MarkJacobs Posts tagged with 'MarkJacobs' at MetaFilter. Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:17:57 -0800 Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:17:57 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/58515/American%2DWriters%2Don%2DAmerica <a href="http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/writers/homepage.htm">Writers on America</a> is a collection of essays by various American authors on different aspects of America. It was conceived in the direct aftermath of 9/11 as a way to introduce readers to a United States that is not prominent in American pop culture. It is published by the US State Department and distributed by embassies. Michael Chabon writes about <a href="http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/writers/chabon.htm">growing up in the utopian planned city of Columbia, Maryland</a>. Bharati Mukherjee writes <a href="http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/writers/mukherjee.htm">On Being an American Writer</a> rather than an Indo-American one. Charles Johnson writes about a <a href="http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/writers/johnson.htm">great uncle</a> who started a milk company, and after that went belly-up in the Great Depression, founded a construction business. The other authors with essays in the volume are <a href="http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/writers/abinader.htm">Elmaz Abinader</a>, <a href="http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/writers/alvarez.htm">Julia Alvarez</a>, <a href="http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/writers/birkerts.htm">Sven Birkerts</a>, <a href="http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/writers/butler.htm">Robert Olen Butler</a>, <a href="http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/writers/collins.htm">Billy Collins</a>, <a href="http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/writers/creeley.htm">Robert Creeley</a>, <a href="http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/writers/donald.htm">David Herbert Donald</a>, <a href="http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/writers/ford.htm">Richard Ford</a>, <a href="http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/writers/hogan.htm">Linda Hogan</a>, <a href="http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/writers/jacobs.htm">Mark Jacobs</a>, <a href="http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/writers/nye.htm">Naomi Shihab Nye</a> and <a href="http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/writers/pinsky.htm">Robert Pinsky</a>. On Voice of America Eric Felten <a href="http://www.voanews.com/uspolicy/archive/2003-01/a-2003-01-17-4-1.cfm">interviewed</a> Mark Jacobs, George Clack, executive editor of the publication and Joseph Bottum, books and arts editor of the Weekly Standard. NPR <a href="http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/wesun/20021215.wesun.05.ram">interviewed Clack and Elmaz Abinader</a> [RealAudio] about the project and On the Media <a href="http://www.onthemedia.org/yore/transcripts/transcripts_122702_america.html">interviewed Clack by himself</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.58515 Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:17:57 -0800 BillyCollins Birkerts Chabon CharlesJohnson Creeley DavidHerbertDonald ElmazAbinader JosephBottum JuliaAlvarez LindaHogan literature MarkJacobs Mukherjee NaomiShihabNye RichardFord RobertOlenButler RobertPinsky Kattullus