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Mark Katzman
Born1951 (age 72–73)
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Period1990–present
Website
markkatzman.net

Mark Katzman (born 1951) is an American writer and musician.

Biography[edit]

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.

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. Katzman shared a 17-year-long friendship with William Bronk, which shaped his 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 houses the Woodberry Poetry Room, 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.

He lives in Athens, Georgia.

Works[edit]

Novels[edit]

  • M7, a speculative, literary novel, will be released on May 7, 2024, by Spaceboy Books. [5]
  • Home, (Readers Magnet, 2022).[6][7]
  • Play Date, (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2015).[8]
  • I Russian Bride (indie publication) came out in June 2011.

The first five letters of the book were also featured in the online magazine bhag.net.[9] The work has additionally been expressed and expanded upon through two new media publication styles: on YouTube on April 1, 2010 via occasional video installments, and beginning in Summer 2010, through continuous Twitter updates (@IRussianBride) with new content to extend the story.[10][11] On YouTube 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.[12]

Plays[edit]

In 2005, Katzman was a member of New York Artists Unlimited.[13] He was part of a select group of playwrights chosen to develop their work. A staged reading of his play, Crisscross, was performed there in 2006. Katzman directed four performances of Crisscross in July, 2012,[14] at the Metropolitan Ensemble Theater as part of the Kansas City Fringe Festival.[15][16]

Katzman's full-length play, Henny & Harry, won the 2012 Plays-In-Progress Workshop award from Rockhurst College in Kansas City, Mo., with a staged reading held on October 12, 2012.[17] The play was a finalist in both the Jewish Play Festival and the Bay Area Playwright's Festival competitions in 2014. His one-act, Pretty Button, had a staged reading at the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre on October 7, 2013.

Talk on William Bronk[edit]

On April 13–14, 2013, Katzman gave a talk at a two-day symposium on the work of William Bronk at New York University and Columbia University called William Bronk in New York: A Symposium on the Life and Work of William Bronk.[18] His talk, Desire and Denial: The William Bronk - Mark Katzman Correspondence, encompasses the seventeen year friendship between himself and Bronk, culminating with the interview that is considered integral to Bronk studies.[19] The talk is included in a book of the symposium proceedings, William Bronk in the Twenty-First Century: New Assessments, by Edward Foster and Burt Kimmelman, published in December, 2013.[20]

Artist books[edit]

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).[21][22][23] They have been displayed in various museum exhibits.[24] Copy number 4 of INoN is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art.[25]

Interviews[edit]

Katzman has interviewed notable people including Stanley Kunitz,[26] William Bronk,[27][28] Timothy Leary,[29] and John Gurche.[30] He initiated the first Oral Histories for The Explorer's Club in New York City.[31] 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[32] (producer of the Digital Be-In)[33] and R.U. Sirius[34] appeared in the magazine, Internet Underground.[35]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "William Bronk papers, 1908-1999". Columbia.edu. February 22, 1999. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  2. ^ "Library Honors William Bronk and his Poetry". Columbia.edu. February 22, 1993. Retrieved February 12, 2014.
  3. ^ "Woodberry Poetry Room". hcl.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on January 11, 2018. Retrieved February 9, 2014.
  4. ^ "Stratis Haviaras | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers". Pw.org. June 9, 2008. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  5. ^ "Spaceboy Books". Spaceboy Books. Retrieved January 27, 2024.
  6. ^ "Mark Katzman's Book was Featured at the New York Library Association 2022 Annual Conference and Trade Show and ReadersMagnet Book Confab". www.webwire.com. December 23, 2022.
  7. ^ "Home". BlueInk Review. Retrieved January 23, 2023.
  8. ^ ISBN 9781937865474
  9. ^ "Mark Katzman - I Russian Bride Novel in Letters". Bhag.net. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  10. ^ Emily Oliver (April 12, 2010). "Theater student voices Russian bride in series - The Red and Black : Variety". The Red and Black. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  11. ^ "Ivana (IRussianBride) on Twitter". Twitter.com. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  12. ^ "Erin Wilson". YouTube. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  13. ^ "NY Artists Unlimited". Nyartists.org. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  14. ^ "Jewish playwright debuts at Fringe Festival". Kcjc.com. July 11, 2012. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  15. ^ "Kansas City Fringe Festival :: July 19-29, 2012". Kcfringe.org. Archived from the original on June 29, 2013. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  16. ^ "KC Stage Press: CRISSCROSS - a play for 2012 KC Fringe Festival". Kcstagepr.blogspot.com. May 9, 2012. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  17. ^ "Plays-in-Progress Workshop". Rockhurst.edu. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  18. ^ "William Bronk in New York". Burtkimmelman.com. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  19. ^ "William Bronk Interview - Introduction". Artzar. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  20. ^ &#8250 William Bronk (December 1, 2013). "William Bronk in the Twenty-First Century: New Assessments: Edward Foster, Burt Kimmelman: 9781584980995: Amazon.com: Books". Amazon.com. Retrieved January 9, 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  21. ^ "Artzar/Contributors - Mark Katzman". Artzar.com. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  22. ^ "Mark Katzman". Mark Katzman. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  23. ^ "INoN: Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection". Retrieved October 2, 2018.
  24. ^ "The Press of the Text: Rare Books and Artists' Books of the 20th Century, An Exhibit in Honor of Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde". Library.umkc.edu. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  25. ^ MoMA catalog listing for INoN
  26. ^ "Imagine Nature: The Snakes of September by Stanley Kunitz". Imaginenature.amnh.org. February 28, 2003. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  27. ^ "At home in the unknown, an interview with William Bronk". Artzar.com. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  28. ^ "Excerpts from an Interview with William Bronk by Mark Katzman Essay". Essaymania.com. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  29. ^ "Up It, an interview with Timothy Leary". Artzar.com. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  30. ^ "Falling into the Iceman's arms, an interview with John Gurche". Artzar.com. February 25, 2001. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  31. ^ Handcoded by John Clay (December 13, 2003). "The Explorers Club - Norman Vaughan". Backup.explorers.org. Archived from the original on January 7, 2014. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  32. ^ "FAQ: Being-In-Now (4-97)". Underground-online.troybrophy.com. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
  33. ^ Katzman, Mark (April 1997). "FAQ: Being-In Now". Internet Underground. 2 (4). Lombard, Illinois: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company: 68–69. ISSN 1084-4805.
  34. ^ Katzman, Mark (August 1996). "Flash and Ecstasy: On the Net With R.U. Sirius". Internet Underground. 1 (9). Lombard, Illinois: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company: 62–63. ISSN 1084-4805.
  35. ^ "Underground-Online: Like a fly in amber". Underground-online.troybrophy.com. Retrieved January 9, 2014.

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