Peter Trachtenberg

American writer

Fiction
non-fiction

Notable awardsWhiting Award (2007)
Ralph Waldo Emerson Award (2009)Spouse

Mary Gaitskill

(m. 2001; div. 2010)

Peter Trachtenberg (born 1953) is an American writer of fiction, nonfiction, and memoir.

Life

He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, and from City College of New York with an MA. He is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh.^[1] and a member of the core faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars.

His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's,^[2] BOMB,^[3] TriQuarterly, O, The New York Times Travel Magazine, and A Public Space.

In 2001, he married writer Mary Gaitskill.^[4] They divorced in 2010.^[5]

Awards

2010 Guggenheim Fellowship^[6]
2009 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
2007 Whiting Award
1984 Nelson Algren Award ^[7]

Works

Books

Torches: A Novel. City College of New York. 1979.
The Casanova Complex: Compulsive Lovers and Their Women. Poseiden Press. 1988. ISBN 978-0-671-62048-6.
7 Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh. Crown. 1997. ISBN 978-0-517-70172-0.
The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and its Meaning. Little, Brown. 2008. ISBN 978-0-316-15879-4.
Another Insane Devotion: On the Love of Cats and Persons. Da Capo Press. 2012. ISBN 978-0-73821-526-6.

Anthologies

Laurie Stone, ed. (1998). "I Kiss Her Goodbye". Close to the Bone: Memoirs of Hurt, Rage, and Desire. Grove Press. p. 118. ISBN 978-0-8021-3582-7. Peter Trachtenberg.

Stories and articles

"You're Fired: Cloudburst", The New Yorker, April 21, 2003.
"The Chattering Masses", The New Yorker, May 15, 2005.
"Why Obama?", Largehearted Boy, October 2, 2008
"Dan P. Lee and Travis the killer chimp", Nieman Storyboard, December 4, 2012
"Tomorrow and Tomorrow", Kenyon Review Online, Summer 2013
"Madame Bovary: Before Country Was Cool", Modern Farmer, October 9, 2014
"Inside the Tiger Factory", Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2015

References

^ "Peter Trachtenberg | Writing".
^ "Trachtenberg, Peter (Harper's Magazine)". Archived from the original on 2008-07-26.
^ "BOMB Magazine: The Things He'd Done by Peter Trachtenberg". Archived from the original on 2011-08-14. Retrieved 2009-12-09.
^ GINIA BELLAFANTE (October 30, 2005). "Can a Writer of Malaise Find Happiness in Acclaim?". The New York Times.
^ Barrodale, Amie (2012-02-27). "I'm Psychic... with Mary Gaitskill". Vice. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Peter Trachtenberg".
^ "Copywriter Wins Nelson Algren Award". The New York Times. October 25, 1984. Retrieved May 22, 2010.