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Justin Torres (born 1980) is an American novelist and an Associate Professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles.[1] He won the First Novelist Award for his semi-autobiographical novel We the Animals which was also a Publishing Triangle Award finalist and a NAACP Image Award nominee. We the Animals has been adapted into a film and awarded the Next Innovator Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.[2]

Early life

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Justin Torres was born in 1980 to a father of Puerto Rican descent and a mother of Italian and Irish descent.[3] He was raised in Baldwinsville, New York as the youngest of three brothers.[4][5] Although his novel We the Animals is not an autobiography, Torres has claimed that the "hard facts" in the novel mirror his own life.[5] City of God by Gil Cuadros, published in 1994, reportedly helped him to come out as homosexual.[6] After leaving his family home, he attended New York University on scholarship but quickly dropped out. After a few years of moving around in the country and taking whatever job came, a friend invited him to sit in a writing course taught at The New School which motivated him to start writing seriously.[4][7]

Awards and honors

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His first novel, We the Animals (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011),[8] won an Indies Choice Book Awards (Adult Debut Honor Award) and was also a Publishing Triangle Award finalist and a NAACP Image Award nominee (Outstanding Literary Work, Debut Author).[9] Torres further won the 2012 First Novelist Award for We the Animals. Torres was named by Salon.com as one of the sexiest men of 2011.[10] In 2012 the National Book Foundation named him among their 5 under 35 young fiction writers.[11][12]

Career

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In 2010, Torres received his master's degree from Iowa Writers' Workshop. He was a 2010-2012 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.[13] He was a recipient of the Rolón Fellowship in Literature from United States Artists.[5] In the summer of 2016, He was the Picador Guest Professor for Literature at the University of Leipzig's Institute for American Studies in Leipzig, Germany.[14] He was a former dog walker and a former employee of McNally Jackson, a bookstore in Manhattan.[5] Torres is currently an Associate Professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles.[1]

He has published short fiction for Granta, Harper's, Tin House, Glimmer Train, The Washington Post, and other publications as well as non-fiction for The Advocate and The Guardian.

A movie version of We The Animals, directed by Jeremiah Zagar, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018,[15] where it won the Next Innovator Prize.[16]

Bibliography

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Articles

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  • Torres, Justin (September 3, 2013). "Breaking the Ice: What Russia's queer past has to tell us about the future". Out.
  • Torres, Justin (November 7, 2013). "The James Baldwin Message for Trans People". The Advocate.
  • Torres, Justin (March 13, 2014). "Derek Jarman's Alternative to The New Gay Credo". The Advocate.
  • Torres, Justin (June 13, 2016). "In praise of Latin Night at the Queer Club". The Washington Post.
  • Torres, Justin (October 10, 2016). "Dog-walking for a wealthy narcissist". The New Yorker. Vol. 92, no. 32. p. 60.
  • Torres, Justin (January 13, 2017). "The Rust Belt whips and snaps after eight years of Obama". The Washington Post.
  • Torres, Justin (September 7, 2017). "Supportive Acts by Justin Torres". Bomb Magazine.

Books

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Stories

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  • Torres, Justin (November 20, 2008). "Lessons". Granta. 104.
  • Torres, Justin (August 1, 2011). "Reverting to a Wild State". The New Yorker.
  • Torres, Justin (October 2011). "Starve a Rat". Harper's Magazine.
  • Torres, Justin (November 15, 2013). "Fiction Issue: 'In the reign of King Moonracer' by Justin Torres". The Washington Post.
  • Torres, Justin (May 1, 2014). "Dark Mother". Dismantle : an anthology of writing from the VONA/Voices Writing Workshop. Díaz, Junot, Johnson-Valenzuela, Marissa,, Walls, Andrea,, Castro Ramírez, Adriana,, Acker, Camille, Fernando Navarro, Marco,. Philadelphia, PA. ISBN 0989747417. OCLC
  • Torres, Justin. "Where's My Wild Horse, Come to Rescue Me?". FLAUNT. 125.

Introductions to Other Works

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  • Torres, Justin (June 21, 2016). "Don't get used to it: Queer literature in a time of triumph". Salon.
  • Torres, Justin (May 3, 2017). "A Story About a Parasitic Relationship". Electric Literature. 259.

Book Reviews

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  • Torres, Justin (March 17, 2017). "Misfits Burn Fast and Bright in This Tale of '80s Athens". The New York Times.
  • Torres, Justin (November 3, 2017). "Daniel Handler's Coming-of-Age Novel Offers 'All the Dirty Parts'". The New York Times.

Article Selection - Justin Torres

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Justin Torres

Justin Torres

The article’s content is relevant to the topic.

It is written neutrally.

Each claim has a citation.

Most of the citations reliable, there is one from Salon.com.

Sources:

Rohrleitner, Marion Christina. (2017). Refusing the Referendum: Queer Latino Masculinities and Utopian Citizenship in Justin Torres' We the Animals. European Journal of American Studies, 11(3), 35 paragraphs.[17]

Barbara Chai, "Keeping It All in the Family" (parents)[18]

Torres page[19]

where he grew up and brief education[4]

Stories and essays he has published[20] (try to locate them)

lives in LA and works as Assis. Prof of Eng at UCLA[1]

  1. 3-5 peer reviewed articles
  2. reference source

bottom - book reviews, interviews, blogs

model article Jesmyn Ward

bold underline [21]

Interview: about being a writer

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/we-animals-author-justin-torres-latinos-are-dehumanized-literature-antidote-n898481

http://remezcla.com/features/film/we-the-animals-interview-justin-torres/

https://electricliterature.com/interview-justin-torres-author-of-we-the-animals-46e66f611309

Comments

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A good start. Can you link to the Torres page? Also, use this space to answer the three questions in re article selection. Keep looking for sources. Did you find a DOI for the Euro Journal of Am Studies? Profhanley (talk)

  1. ^ a b c ""The Way You Tell the Story": Justin Torres on Writing (Interview Series, The Poetry and Literature Center at the Library of Congress)". www.loc.gov. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
  2. ^ "next-innovator-award-we-the-animals". www.sundance.org. Retrieved 2018-11-08.
  3. ^ Chai, Barbara (2011-08-30). "Keeping It All in the Family". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
  4. ^ a b c "Justin Torres, author of 'We the Animals'". SFGate. 2011-09-03. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
  5. ^ a b c d "INTERVIEW: Justin Torres, author of "We the Animals"". Electric Literature. 2011-08-19. Retrieved 2018-11-01.
  6. ^ Waters, Sarah; White, Edmund; Winterson, Jeanette; Kay, Jackie; Callow, Simon; Donoghue, Emma (2017-07-01). "'At last I felt I fitted in': writers on the books that helped them come out". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-10-18.
  7. ^ "Justin Torres' Hard-Knock Debut Novel". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2018-11-08.
  8. ^ Salvatore, Joseph (2011-09-23). "We the Animals — By Justin Torres — Book Review". The New York Times.
  9. ^ "Radcliffe Institute for Advance Study Harvard University Fellows: Justin Torres" Harvard.edu. Retrieved 10-07-13.
  10. ^ "Salon's Sexiest Men of 2011 | Slide Show". Salon.com. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
  11. ^ National Book Foundation: Justin Torres interview
  12. ^ The National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” Fiction, 2012
  13. ^ "Stanford Creative Writing Program". Stanford.edu. Archived from the original on November 13, 2011. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
  14. ^ American Studies Leipzig (March 7, 2016). "Next Picador Professor Justin Torres". Retrieved 2017-02-12.
  15. ^ Schoenbrun, Dan. "The 50 Most Anticipated American Films of 2017 | Filmmaker Magazine". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved 2018-07-09.
  16. ^ "next-innovator-award-we-the-animals". www.sundance.org. Retrieved 2018-11-08.
  17. ^ Rajcáni, J.; Krobová, J.; Málková, D. (November 1975). "Distribution of Lednice (Yaba 1) virus in the chick embryo". Acta Virologica. 19 (6): 467–472. ISSN 0001-723X. PMID 1991.
  18. ^ Chai, Barbara (2011-08-30). "Keeping It All in the Family". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
  19. ^ "Home". Justin Torres. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
  20. ^ "Stories & Essays". Justin Torres. Retrieved 2018-10-11.
  21. ^ "Stories & Essays". Justin Torres. Retrieved 2018-10-02.
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