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Joshua Furst is an American fiction writer and playwright. He is known for his 2007 novel The Sabotage Café.

Early life and education

Joshua Furst studied as an undergraduate at New York University‘s Tisch School of the Arts, receiving a BFA in Dramatic Writing in 1993.[citation needed]

He did graduate work at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, from which he received an MFA with Honors in 2001.[citation needed]

Career

Writing

Furst’s novel The Sabotage Café was named to the 2007 year-end best-of lists of the Chicago Tribune, the Rocky Mountain News, and the Philadelphia City Paper, as well as being awarded the 2008 Grub Street Fiction Prize.[1][2]

He is also the author of the book of stories, Short People. A frequent contributor to The Jewish Daily Forward, he has also been published in The Chicago Tribune,[3] Conjunctions,[4] PEN America,[5] Five Chapters[6][7] and The New York Tyrant, among many other journals and periodicals.

His plays include Whimper, Myn and The Ellipse and Other Shapes. They have been produced by numerous theatres, both in the United States and abroad, including PS122, adobe theatre company, Cucaracha Theatre, HERE, The Demarco European Art Foundation, and Annex Theatre in Seattle.[citation needed]

Teaching

In 2011, Furst was teaching at The New School‘s Eugene Lang College in New York City.[8] and at Columbia University [9]

Recognition and awards

Furst has been given citations for notable achievement by The Best American Short Stories and The O. Henry Awards.[citation needed]

His work has received a 2001-2002 James Michener-Paul Engle Fellowship from the James Michener Foundation/Copernicus Society of America,[citation needed] a Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren Award,[10] and a Walter E. Dakins Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.[citation needed]

Other activities

Furst is a founding member of the literary collective Krïstïanïa.[citation needed]

He helped organize and run Nada Theatre’s 1995 Obie Award-winning Faust Festival and was one of the producers of the 1998 New York RAT Conference, which brought experimental theatre artists from across the United States together for a week of performance and symposia.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Maloney, Field (October 21, 2007). “Here in Dinkytown”. The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 17, 2023.
  2. ^ Boston Globe review of “Sabotage Cafe” (August 19, 2007)
  3. ^ “Red Lobster” by Joshua Furst, The Chicago Tribune (September 29, 1997) [1]
  4. ^ “The Kiss” by Joshua Furst, Conjunctions 54 (May 2010)
  5. ^ “Mercy” by Joshua Furst, PEN America 9 (Fall 2008)
  6. ^ “The Hurricane” by Joshua Furst, Five Chapters (2008),
  7. ^ “Late Night 1999” by Joshua Furst, Five Chapters (2006)
  8. ^ The New School’s Eugene Lang College “Joshua Furst – Part-time Lecturer”. Archived from the original on May 24, 2011. Retrieved March 28, 2013.
  9. ^ “Joshua Furst”.
  10. ^ “Humor Takes Top Prize In This Year’s Nelson Algren Awards”, August 15, 1997, by Connie Lauerman, Chicago Tribune]