Welcome
Master Class cake by student Amy Coombs (photo: Victoria Schultz)
ADAM REID SEXTON is a writer whose books include Master Class in Fiction Writing: Techniques from Austen, Hemingway, and Other Greats and the forthcoming Hang Us in the Louvre: How Rock 'n' Roll Became Art.
Adam's writing on the arts and entertainment has appeared in the Boston Phoenix, Edible Brooklyn and Edible Manhattan, the John Updike Review, the New York Times, the Philadelphia City Paper, Rock and Rap Confidential, and the Village Voice. His fiction and essays have been published by Babble, the Bellevue Literary Review, the Mississippi Review, Off Assignment, Palimpsest, and Post Road, and in the anthology How Does That Make You Feel? True Confessions from Both Sides of the Therapy Couch.
He has read from his work at New York City performance venues the Knitting Factory and Pete's Candy Store, and for four years he directed a reading series at KGB Bar in Manhattan's East Village. He has been interviewed by the New York Times, npr.org, Poets & Writers, Time, and the Washington Post. And he has lectured on writing and popular culture at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, the University of Alabama, NYU, Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania, and in Central Park.
Adam teaches fiction writing and writing about music at Yale, where he has been a Critic in the graduate School of Art and is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department.