Henry Hoke (author)
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![]() Henry Hoke reads at Housing Works bookstore, New York City, June 2018 | |
Occupation | Writer |
Website | https://www.henry-hoke.com |
Henry Hoke is an American author known for hybrid books[1]. He directs Enter>text, a living literary journal, and his short fiction and non-fiction have been published in Electric Literature[2], Hobart[3], The Collagist[4], Birkensnake[5] and Joyland[6].
Early Life and Education
Hoke was born in Charlottesville, Virginia[7]. He is a great-grandson of Walter W. Bankhead and a cousin of Tallulah Bankhead[8]. He earned his MFA in creative writing from California Institute of the Arts[9].
Enter>text
Hoke co-created Enter>text, a series of large-scale immersive literary events, in Los Angeles in 2011[10]. Enter>text has been performed at the &NOW Festival[11][12], Machine Project[13][14], Human Resources[15], the Pasadena Museum of California Art[16], and the Neutra VDL House[17][18][19]. Over 150 performers have appeared in Enter>text, including Kate Durbin, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Douglas Kearney and Ryka Aoki.
Awards
Hoke’s story collection Genevieves won the 2015 book prize for prose from Subito Press at the University of Colorado, Boulder[20].
Bibliography
- The Book of Endless Sleepovers (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016; ISBN 978-1-937865-77-1)
- Genevieves (Subito, 2017; ISBN 978-0-9906612-8-3)
References
- ^ Darling, Kristina (18 September 2017). "Almost Everyone Was Mistaken: On Secrets, Light, and the Lyric Imagination". Los Angeles Review of Books. Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
Hoke's Genevieves, for instance, reads as a ledger of what cannot, will not, be said aloud. Presented as a series of intricately linked hybrid texts, which are each themselves comprised of discrete episodes, Hoke's writing allows uncertainty to accumulate in the space between things.
- ^ Hoke, Henry. "Electric Literature". Electric Literature. Medium. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
- ^ Hoke, Henry. "Sour Widows". Hobart. Hobart. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
- ^ Hoke, Henry. "Surprise Island". The Collagist. Dzanc Books. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
- ^ Hoke, Henry. "Paws". Birkensnake. Birkensnake. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
- ^ Hoke, Henry. "Beacon". Joyland. Joyland Magazine. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
- ^ "VaReads Writer of the Week: Henry Hoke". Virginia Center for the Book. Virginia Humanities. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
- ^ "Obituary of Barbara Bankhead Oliver". Daily Mountain Eagle. 24 July 2018. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
- ^ "Henry Hoke". CalArts MFA Creative Writing Alumni Portal. CalArts MFA Creative Writing Program. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
- ^ Reizman, Renée. "Ephemeral Art in the Perpetually Transforming City of Los Angeles". Hyperallergic. Hyperallergic Media Inc. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
In its seven-year history, Enter>Text has staged events in three locations that no longer exist; their first shows were in a converted warehouse in Cypress Park inhabited by CalArts alumni, where co-founders Henry Hoke and Marco Franco Di Dominico met.
- ^ "@NOW 2015". Sched.com. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
- ^ "Guide to &NOW 2015". Entropy Magazine. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
- ^ Lewis, Amanda (3 April 2012). "Taiwanese Surf Rock Puppetry?! Yes, Please". LA Weekly, LP. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
- ^ "Enter>text at RETURN TO FOREVERHOUSE". Machine Project. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
- ^ "Enter>Text - A Living Literary Journal". Human Resources. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
- ^ Barrera, Sandra (11 April 2018). "What you can do at these museums after hours (including ghost hunting)". Los Angeles Daily News. Southern California News Group. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
- ^ Liang, Elizabeth. "One House Twice at the Historic Neutra Studio and Residences". 24700. California Institue of the Arts. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
- ^ Altunian, Lara. "ENTER>text and homeLA Activate the Silverlake Neutra Home in One House Twice". This Stage Magazine. LA Stage Alliance. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
- ^ Reizman, Renée. "Ephemeral Art in the Perpetually Transforming City of Los Angeles". Hyperallergic. Hyperallergic Media Inc. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
Inside the historic Neutra VDL House on Silver Lake Boulevard, two dancers fold themselves over midcentury modern furniture...For one night only, One House Twice, curated by the dance project homeLA and live literary journal Enter>Text, opened the by-appointment-only institution to the public.
- ^ "2015 Contest Winners". Subito Press. Subito Press. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
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