Mark Sarvas lives
the quiet life with his wife in Los Angeles. His debut novel,
HARRY, REVISED, was published by Bloomsbury
in May 2008, and will follow in more than a dozen countries around
the world. The paperback edition is being released in 2009, and
the novel was a Denver Post Best Book of 2008, and a finalist
for the Fiction Prize of the Southern California Independent Booksellers
Association.
He is best known as the host of the popular and controversial
literary weblog “The Elegant Variation”, a Guardian Top
10 Literary Blog, a Forbes Magazine Best of the Web pick,
and a Los Angeles Magazine Top L.A. Blog. It has been
covered by The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times,
The Scotsman, Salon, the Christian Science
Monitor, Slate, The Denver Post, The
Village Voice, New York Newsday, The New York
Sun, NPR's Day to Day and All Things Considered
and numerous other fine publications.
His book reviews and criticism have appeared in The New York
Times Book Review, Bookforum, The Threepenny Review,
The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Barnes & Noble
Review, Truthdig, The Modern Word, Boldtype
and the Los Angeles Review, and he is a member of the
National Book Critics Circle. He has written episodic comedy for
HBO and Showtime as well as screenplays for Warner Brothers, producer
David Foster, and the World Entertainment and Business Network.
His fiction has appeared in Troika Magazine, The
Wisconsin Review, Apostrophe, Thought Magazine,
Pindeldyboz and as part of the Spoken Interludes, Vermin
on the Mount and Swink reading series in Los Angeles. |
