Evan McMurry

Evan McMurry is a writer and editor, focusing on politics, literature, and culture. Find him on the Twitterz, or contact him at evanmcmurry@yahoo.com. Retweets are not endorsements, umbrellas cost more in the rain, etc.

Publications

Blog

• A Flea In The Fur Of The Beast
  
  

Reviews

• Otto Duv Kulka's Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death, Ralph Mandel trans. (Bookslut 131, March 2013)

• Friedrich Reck's Diary of a Man in Despair, Paul Rubens, trans. (Bookslut 130, February 2013)

• Alex Danchev's Cézanne: A Life (Bookslut 124, August 2012)

• Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls, Donald Rayfield, trans. (Bookslut 122, June 2012)

• John Burnham's After Freud Left: A Century of Psychoanalysis in America and Frank Tallis's Hidden Minds: The History of the Unconscious (Bookslut 121, May 2012)

• Jane Gardham's Crusoe's Daughter (Bookslut 120, April 2012)

• Ellen Ullman's By Blood (Bookslut 119, March 2012)

• Amelia Gray's Threats (Bookslut 117 February 2012)

• Aglaja Veteranyi's Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta (Bookslut 116, January 2012)

• Aleksandar Hemon's Best European Fiction 2012 (Bookslut 116, January 2012)

• Richard Noll's American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox (Bookslut 115, December 2011)

• David L. Martin's Curious Visions of Modernity: Enchantment, Magic, and the Sacred (Bookslut 114, November 2011)

• Sylvia Walby's The Future of Feminism (Bookslut 113, October 2011)

• Eric L. Santner's The Royal Remains: The People's Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty (Bookslut 108, April 2011)

• Saul Frampton's When I Am Playing With My Cat, How Do I Know She Is Not Playing With Me?: Montaigne and Being in Touch With Life (Bookslut 107, March 2011)

• James Miller's Examined Lives (Bookslut 105, February 2011)

• Zachary Mason's Lost Books of the Odyssey (Front Porch Journal 16; November 2010)

• H. L. Humes's The Underground City (Front Porch Journal 15, June 2010)

• Oscar Caseras's Amigoland (Texas Book Review 17, Spring 2009)

Interviews

• Q&A with Senior Staff Writer Jason Cohen (Texas Monthly, September 2011)

• Q&A with Feature Writer Katy Vine (Texas Monthly, August 2011)

• Q&A with Feature Writer Mimi Swartz (Texas Monthly, July 2011)

• Q&A with Mondo Creative Director Justin Ishmael (Texas Monthly, June 2011)

• Q&A with poster artist Jason Munn (Texas Monthly, June 2011)

• Literary Translations: Interviews with Czech fiction translator Hana Ulmanova and Irish-Czech poetry translator Justin Quinn (Front Porch Journal 17, April 2011)

• State of the Bookstore: Interviews with Kathy Doyle Thomas of Half Price Books, Carson Moss of Strand Bookstore, Michael Candor of Salamander Books, and Don Allen of Busboys and Poets (Front Porch Journal 16, November 2010)

• Interview with Chris Castellani of Grub Street (Front Porch Journal 15, June 2010)

Articles

• Rock the Vote: Who Is the Best Female Country Artist From Texas? (Texas Monthly, October 2011)

• Giant: Two Trains Running (Texas Monthly Rolling Roadshow, June 28, 2011)

• No Country For Old Men: Scary or Evil? (Texas Monthly Rolling Roadshow, June 27, 2011)

Short Fiction

• "Drunk in English," short story (Post Road 16, April 2009)
  

• "Less," short story (The American Drivel Review, Summer 2008)
  

Editorial Experience

• Political Editor for Mediaite, May 2013-present

• Interview Editor for Newfound: An Inquiry of Place, May 2013-present
  

• Founding Editor, A Flea In The Fur Of The Beast, January 2012-present

• Contributing Writer, Bookslut, December 2010-present

• Political Editor, Ology Media, January 2012-July 2012

• Contributing Writer, Texas Monthly, May 2011-August 2011

• Interview Editor, Front Porch Journal, November 2009-May 2011

• Assistant Fiction Editor, Southwestern American Literature, August-December 2009

Awards

• 2010 Ludvik Vaculik Award for Best Essay, given by Michigan State University’s Prague Summer Program

Connect

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Contact

• 512-294-6853
• evanmcmurry@yahoo.com