Adam Levins debut novel, The Instructions was published in late 2010. His stories have appeared in Tin House, McSweeneys, and Esquire. Winner of the 2003 Tin House/Summer Literary Seminars Fiction Contest and the 2004 Joyce Carol Oates Fiction Prize, Levin holds an MA in Clinical Social Work from the University of Chicago and an MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. His collection of short stories, Hot Pink, will be published by McSweeneys in 2011. He lives in Chicago, where he teaches writing at Columbia College and The School of the Art Institute.
Authorial Influences and Inspirations: Adam Novy, George Saunders, Leslie Lockett, Stanley Elkin, Christian TeBordo, Rebecca Curtis, Jerzy Kosinski, David Foster Wallace, Salvador Plascencia, Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, JD Salinger, and Katherine Dunn
Authorial Influences and Inspirations: Adam Novy, George Saunders, Leslie Lockett, Stanley Elkin, Christian TeBordo, Rebecca Curtis, Jerzy Kosinski, David Foster Wallace, Salvador Plascencia, Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, JD Salinger, and Katherine Dunn
Genres: Literary Fiction, Science Fiction
Books containing stories by Adam Levin
The United States of McSweeney's (2009)
Ten Years of Accidental Classics
edited by
Nick Hornby and Eli Horowitz
Adam Levin recommends
Gretel and the Great War (2024)
Adam Ehrlich Sachs
"Countless writers take pleasure in the style of their own sentences. Few of them provide such pleasure to their readers. Sachs provides it again and again. He doesn't let up. Plus he's funny as hell. No writer alive is more startlingly alive."
And Their Children After Them (2020)
Nicolas Mathieu
"As anguished as it is elegiac, as universal as it is grounded in the vivid particularities of its setting1990s Rust Belt FranceAnd Their Children After Them evokes the beautiful, miserable, longing-plagued experience of being an adolescent as pointedly and powerfully as any novel published since The Virgin Suicides."
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