Elizabeth Gaffney (born New York City, December 22, 1966) is an American novelist. She graduated from Vassar College and holds an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College . She is the founder and host of the virtual writers space The 24-Hour Room , the editor at large of the literary magazine A Public Space and was a staff editor of The Paris Review for 16 years, under George Plimpton . She also writes The Engines of Narrative Substack and teaches writing at New York University , Queens University of Charlotte , The 24-Hour Room , and A Public Space .
14-728: Elizabeth Gaffney is the author of two novels published by Random House. Metropolis was published in 2005. When the World Was Young was published in 2015. Elizabeth Gaffney has published short stories in various literary magazines including Virginia Quarterly Review , North American Review , Conjunctions and Michigan Quarterly Review . She won the 2019 Lawrence Prize for Fiction . Elizabeth Gaffney has translated four books from German: The Arbogast Case by Thomas Hettche , The Pollen Room by Zoë Jenny , Invisible Woman: Growing up Black in Germany , by Ika Hügel-Marshall and You Can't See
28-588: A new publisher, deputy editor, web editor, and assistant editor on the new staff. For its issues under his directorship, VQR received numerous awards, including a Pushcart Prize as well as selections for the Best American Science Writing anthology and the Best American Travel Writing anthology. Nevertheless, Eubanks was ousted in 2015 following a dispute with the university. Masthead (American publishing) In American usage,
42-509: A publication's masthead is a printed list, published in a fixed position in each edition, of its owners, departments, officers, contributors and address details, which in British English usage is known as imprint . Flannel panel is a humorous term for a magazine masthead panel. In the UK and many other Commonwealth nations, "the masthead" is a publication's designed title as it appears on
56-413: A university publication that would be "an organ of liberal opinion": I take leave again to bring before you a dream: a magazine solidly based, thoughtfully and wisely managed and controlled, not seeking to give news, but to become a great serious publication wherein shall be reflected the calm thought of the best men. He appealed to financial backers of the university for financial contributions, and over
70-735: The Pictures of the Year International competition for Long Form Multimedia Story. Since 2006, the magazine has received Utne Reader magazine's Utne Independent Press Award for General Excellence (2009) and International Coverage (2010). During July 2010 managing editor Kevin Morrissey repeatedly complained to university officials about editor Ted Genoways' treatment of him. On July 30, 2010, Morrissey shot himself, after first calling 911 to report his own shooting. Press reports accused Genoways of harassing and bullying Morrissey. Genoways denied
84-689: The Digital Medium (2010), Fiction (2011), and Multimedia Package (2011), the magazine received nominations for Reporting, Essays, Reviews and Criticism, Photography, and Photojournalism. In 2012, Maisie Crow's video "Half-Lives," produced for the VQR website, received the Overseas Press Club Award for Best Use of Online Video. The video also received second place in the World Press Photo Multimedia Contest and third place in
98-717: The Elephants by Susan Kreller. This article about a novelist of the United States born in the 1960s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Virginia Quarterly Review The Virginia Quarterly Review is a quarterly literary magazine that was established in 1925 by James Southall Wilson , at the request of University of Virginia president E. A. Alderman . This "National Journal of Literature and Discussion" includes poetry , fiction , book reviews , essays , photography , and comics . In 1915, President Alderman announced his intentions to create
112-530: The bullying and in an August 1 e-mail to VQR writers said he did not "feel responsible" for Morrissey's death. After staffers had completed most work on the VQR Fall issue to be published in Morrissey's memory, in August 2010 Genoways took charge of the issue. Staffers removed their names from the masthead in protest, and subsequently the entire staff resigned. National and local media devoted extensive coverage to
126-492: The internal review progress." The university later stated that it was cancelling the Winter issue, and stated it might publish a "bonus issue" at some future date, or reimburse subscribers for the cancelled issue. After completing its investigation, in a controversial report published October 20, 2010, the university concluded that, because there were "no specific allegations of bullying or harassment" prior to Mr. Morrissey's death,
140-543: The next nine years an endowment was raised to fund the publication while it became established. Alderman announced the establishment of The Virginia Quarterly Review in the fall of 1924, saying it would provide: independent thought in the fields of society, politics, and literature ... in no sense a local or sectional publication ... [but inviting] as contributors to its pages men and women everywhere who think through things and have some quality of expressing their thoughts in appealing and arresting fashion. The inaugural issue
154-416: The situation and the conflicting accounts of what happened. A documentary titled "What Killed Kevin" revisited Genoways' relationship with Morrissey and the time leading up to the suicide. New university president Teresa Sullivan called for a "thorough review" of both financial and managerial practices at the magazine. In the meantime the university had put the Winter issue of VQR "on hold," to "let
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#1732868703330168-718: The university would not fire Mr. Genoways—and Mr. Genoways wrote in an e-mail to the New York Times that he would be "remaining on as editor." The university stated its intent to reorganize VQR under a new reporting structure, bring its finances under outside supervision, and revise "how employees report [problems] and receive assistance." Despite the temporary suspension, VQR never skipped an issue and resumed publication in late January 2011, marking "the start of its 87th year of continuous publication." In December 2011, about fourteen months after one newspaper said "the award-winning Virginia Quartlerly Review might have appeared on
182-504: The verge of extinction," the university announced it was hiring a new publisher and a new deputy editor; Mr. Genoways remained as editor. In April 2012 Genoways resigned, saying: "I look back on my nine years as editor with pride, but I also hope that the new staff will not feel in any way encumbered by that legacy." In 2013, VQR named W. Ralph Eubanks , then director of publishing at the Library of Congress , as its ninth editor. He joined
196-518: Was released in the spring of 1925, and the 160-page volume featured writing by Gamaliel Bradford , Archibald Henderson , Luigi Pirandello , Witter Bynner , William Cabell Bruce , among two dozen other notable, mostly southern, writers. The following persons have been editors-in-chief of the magazine: Since 2005, the magazine has been nominated for twenty-eight National Magazine Awards . In addition to six wins for General Excellence (2006), Fiction (2006), Single-Topic Issue (2008), News Reporting in
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