Daniel Levin Becker Explained

Daniel Levin Becker
Birth Place:Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Alma Mater:Yale University
Genre:writer, translator
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Daniel Levin Becker (born 1984 in Chicago) is an American writer, translator and musical critic.

Life

In 2006, he finished his undergraduate studies in English and French at Yale University, where he also wrote for campus humor magazine Yale Record.[1] [2] In 2009 he was elected member of the French literary workshop Oulipo, making him the second American member of this group (the first is Harry Mathews). He was elected after a Fulbright year spent organizing and indexing that group's archives. He is the author of Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature, published in April 2012 by Harvard University Press.[3]

Levin Becker is currently the reviews editor for the magazine The Believer.[4]

He also contributes regularly as a music critic for the newspaper SF Weekly.[5] His writings and musical reviews can also be regularly found in Dusted Magazine,[6] The Point,[7] and The American Book Review,[8]

He is among a list of contributors to The &NOW Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing.

He has translated from the French texts including Georges Perec's dream journal La Boutique Obscure and Hervé Le Tellier's short story "A Few Musketeers," as well as Georges Perec, Oulibiographer by Bernard Magné[9] and Letter from the Author to his Editor by Marcel Bénabou.[10] Levin Becker became an Oulipian when he was only 24, the youngest member at the time. He was also the youngest member and songwriter for the project band Mujeres Encinta that he joined when he was only a teenager.[11]

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Notes and References

  1. Levin Becker. Daniel. Glazier. Martin. The Maelstrom Recording Diaries. The Yale Record. May 2003. New Haven.
  2. Levin Becker, Daniel and Martin Glazier (May, 2003). "The Maelstrom Recording Diaries". The Yale Record. New Haven: Yale Record.
  3. Book: Levin Becker . Daniel . Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature . April 2012 . Daniel Levin Becker . Harvard University Press . Boston . 978-0-674-06577-2 . 13 May 2017 . Drawn to the Oulipo’s mystique, Levin Becker secured a Fulbright grant to study the organization and traveled to Paris..
  4. Web site: U.S.A. . The Believer - About . Believermag.com . 2011-10-09.
  5. Web site: Daniel Levin Becker - San Francisco . SF Weekly . 2011-10-09 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110806193407/http://www.sfweekly.com/authors/daniel-becker/ . 2011-08-06 .
  6. Web site: Dusted Writers [Daniel Levin Becker ] |publisher=Dustedmagazine.com |date= |accessdate=2011-10-09].
  7. Web site: Daniel Levin Becker | The Point Magazine Author Archive . Thepointmag.com . 2011-10-09 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111017021920/http://www.thepointmag.com/author/daniellevinbecker . 2011-10-17 .
  8. Web site: Current Issue . American Book Review . 2011-10-09.
  9. Web site: Bernard Magné . Georges Perec, Oulibiographer . Drunkenboat.com . 1982-03-03 . 2011-10-09.
  10. Web site: Marcel Bénabou . Letter . Drunkenboat.com . 2011-10-09.
  11. Web site: trompe lit - artforum.com / scene & herd . Artforum.com . 2011-10-09.