- Mark Katzman
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Mark Katzman Born 1951
St. Louis, MissouriNationality American Period 1990-present
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markkatzman.netMark Katzman (born 1951) is an American author. He has contributed to two artist's books (works of art realized in the form of a book). His novel-in-letters I Russian Bride was published in June 2011. Katzman also contributes articles and interviews to web and print publications.
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Biography
Katzman was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1951, to Meyer and Henrietta Katzman and raised in Kansas City. He has one sibling, Salli Katz.
He received a B.A. in psychology from the University of Missouri–Kansas City. His interest in writing manifested itself after, he says, a "transformational experience" when he was twenty-two. He had never written creatively before that time. As a writer, Katzman cites Samuel Beckett and Franz Kafka as his main influences in his aim to challenge the traditional structure of the novel. Katzman shared an 17-year-long friendship with William Bronk, a mentorship which shaped Katzman’s literary career in many ways as well. Their correspondence resides at Butler Library, Columbia University[1][2].
Katzman worked at Lamont Library at Harvard University for five years. Lamont housed the Woodberry Poetry Room in the mid-70s, a major repository of poetry and audio archives.[3] The Curator at the time, Stratis Haviaras,[4] was pivotal in guiding Katzman’s future literary pursuits. Katzman has also worked at the Quad Library at Radcliffe,[disambiguation needed
] Clark Library at Cornell University and Miller Nichols Library at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. For seven years he worked in the Photo and Film Archive at the American Museum of Natural History.In 2005 Katzman was a member of New York Artists Unlimited[5], located at the DownEast Arts Center, East Village, New York. He was part of a select group of playwrights chosen to develop their work. A staged reading of his play, Criss-Cross, was performed there in 2006.
He lives in Athens, Georgia.
Work
Katzman published his latest book I Russian Bride in June 2011 in both print[6] and ebook formats, completing the multi-platform nature of the project. The first five letters of the book were also featured in the online magazine bhag.net [7]. The work has additionally been expressed and expanded upon through two new media publication styles: on You-Tube on April 1, 2010 via twenty video installments, and beginning in Summer 2010, through continuous Twitter updates with new content to extend the story.[8][9] On You-Tube the emails that comprise the book are read as voice-over to the creative visuals which together tell the story of Russian woman Ivana's love for an American man.[10]
In 1990, Katzman created Inon (Nexus Press, 1990) with artist Susan Kress, and another artist's book, Along the Way (Pequeño Press, Guanajuato, Mexico, 1990).[11][12][13][14] They have been displayed in various museum exhibits.[15] Along the Way "pulls out like an accordion", and Inon is in the form of a scroll that can be unrolled; this form "gives the text a religious feel".[16] Nexus Press, the publisher of Inon, received a 1990 LoPresti Publication "Special Award for Continuing Excellence in the Publication of Artists Books".[17] Copy number 4 of Inon is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art.[18]
He is also the editor of the online publication, Artzar.com.[19] Other work includes being the content coordinator for the American Museum of Natural History's Imagine Nature Digital Library.[20]
Interviews
Katzman has interviewed notable people including Stanley Kunitz,[21] William Bronk,[22][23] Timothy Leary,[24] and John Gurche.[25] Three of his interviews (those with Robyn Hitchcock, William Orbit, and Mark Eitzel) have appeared in the magazine, Mondo 2000. Additionally, his interviews with Michael Gosney[26] (producer of the Digital Be-In)[27] and R.U. Sirius[28] appeared in the magazine, Internet Underground.[29]
References
- ^ http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_4079737/
- ^ http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol19/vol19_iss8/record198.18
- ^ http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/collections/poetry_room.html
- ^ https://www.pw.org/content/stratis_haviaras_3
- ^ http://NYartists.org
- ^ ISBN 978-1460983423
- ^ http://www.bhag.net/lit/litkatzm/litkatzm_russ.html
- ^ http://www.redandblack.com/2010/04/12/theater-student-voices-russian-bride-in-series
- ^ http://twitter.com/IRussianBride
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/IRussianBride
- ^ http://www.artzar.com/contributors/khttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mark_Katzman&action=edit§ion=2atzman.html
- ^ http://www.markkatzman.net
- ^ http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/bookcolls/smith%20miniature%20collection/20th%20Century%20U%20S/pequenopress.htm
- ^ http://digital-libraries.saic.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISORESTMP=results.php&CISOVIEWTMP=item_viewer.php&CISOMODE=grid&CISOGRID=thumbnail%2CA%2C1%3Baccess%2CA%2C1%3Btitle%2CA%2C1%3Bcreato%2CA%2C0%3Bnone%2CA%2C0%3B20%3Brelevancy%2Ccreato%2Ctitle%2Caccess%2Cnone&CISOBIB=identi%2CA%2C1%2CN%3Baccess%2CA%2C0%2CN%3Btitle%2C200%2C0%2CN%3Bnone%2CA%2C0%2CN%3Bnone%2CA%2C0%2CN%3B20%3Brelevancy%2Cnone%2Cnone%2Cnone%2Cnone&CISOTHUMB=20+(4x5)%3Brelevancy%2Cnone%2Cnone%2Cnone%2Cnone&CISOTITLE=20%3Baccess%2Cnone%2Cnone%2Cnone%2Cnone&CISOHIERA=20%3Btitle%2Caccess%2Cnone%2Cnone%2Cnone&CISOSUPPRESS=0&CISOOP1=all&CISOFIELD1=creato&CISOROOT=%2Fjfabc&CISOBOX1=Katzman%2C+Mark
- ^ The Press of the Text: Rare Books and Artists' Books of the 20th Century, An Exhibit in Honor of Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde
- ^ "These aren't your 'regular old books'", by Liz Seaton, The Kansas City Star, April 29, 1992, pages H-1 and H-5.
- ^ 7th Annual LoPresti Awards - 1990-91, ARLIS/SE Art Libraries Society of North America/Southeast Chapter
- ^ MoMA catalog listing for Inon
- ^ http://www.artzar.com/content/index.html
- ^ http://imaginenature.amnh.org/credits/site_credits.html
- ^ http://imaginenature.amnh.org/snakes/snakes.html
- ^ "At home in the unknown, an interview with William Bronk"
- ^ [1]
- ^ "Up It, an interview with Timothy Leary"
- ^ "Falling into the Iceman's arms, an interview with John Gurche"
- ^ http://underground-online.troybrophy.com/iu/archive/issue16/faq16/
- ^ Katzman, Mark (April 1997). "FAQ: Being-In Now". Internet Underground (Lombard, Illinois: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company) 2 (4): 68–69. ISSN 1084-4805.
- ^ Katzman, Mark (August 1996). "Flash and Ecstasy: On the Net With R.U. Sirius". Internet Underground (Lombard, Illinois: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company) 1 (9): 62–63. ISSN 1084-4805.
- ^ http://underground-online.troybrophy.com
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