Julavits lives in Maine and Manhattan with her husband, the writer Ben Marcus, and their children. Julavits is the author of the book The Folded Clock: A Diary (2015), which the Los Angeles Times described as "an engaging portrait of a woman's sense of identity, which continually shape-shifts with time." Personal life The book is about how the clothing women wear defines and shapes their lives, and it features the voices of 639 women of all nationalities. Julavits co-edited Women in Clothes (2014), along with Sheila Heti and Leanne Shapton. Julavits is the author of four novels: The Mineral Palace (2000), about which Library Journal wrote, "the writing is superb" The Effect of Living Backwards (2003) The Uses of Enchantment (2006), which The New Yorker called "a sophisticated meditation on truth and bias" and Publishers Weekly described as "beautifully executed" and The Vanishers (2012). She has also written short stories, such as "The Santosbrazzi Killer", first published in The Lifted Brow and then republished in Harper's Magazine. It seemed as though their irrelevance was a foregone conclusion, and we were just practicing this quaint exercise of pretending something mattered when of course everyone knew it didn't." She added that her own aim as book critic would be "to endow something with importance, by treating it as an emotional experience." Scott how she decided on The Believer 's tone: "I really saw 'the end of the book' as originating in the way books are talked about now in our culture and especially in the most esteemed venues for book criticism. In 2005, she told The New York Times Magazine culture writer A.O. Julavits wrote the article "Rejoice! Believe! Be Strong and Read Hard!" (subtitled: "A Call For A New Era Of Experimentation, and a Book Culture That Will Support It") in the debut issue of The Believer, a publication that attempts to avoid snarkiness and "give people and books the benefit of the doubt." She later went on to earn an MFA from Columbia University. Heidi Julavits was born and grew up in Portland, Maine, before attending Dartmouth College. She is a recipient of the PEN New England Award. She is an associate professor of writing at Columbia University. Her novels include The Mineral Palace (2000), The Effect of Living Backwards (2003), The Uses of Enchantment (2006), and The Vanishers (2012). 2, Esquire, Culture+Travel, Story, Zoetrope All-Story, and McSweeney’s Quarterly. She has been published in The Best Creative Nonfiction Vol. Heidi Suzanne Julavits (born April 20, 1969) is an American author and was a founding editor of The Believer magazine.
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