Arlo Haskell

Arlo Haskell is an American author, publisher, and literary organizer.

Early life and education

Arlo Haskell was born and raised in Key West, Florida, where his mother, Monica Haskell, was director of the Key West Literary Seminar during the late 1980s and early 1990s.[1] [2] Haskell attended Bard College in the late 1990s, where he studied poetry and was a student of John Ashbery.[3][4] After college, he worked for David Wolkowsky, ferrying guests to Wolkowsky’s private island and doing other odd jobs.[5]

Career

In 2017, Haskell authored and published his first work of nonfiction, The Jews of Key West: Smugglers, Cigar Makers, and Revolutionaries (1823-1969) (Sand Paper Press). Critics generally praised the social history for its depth of research and style, arguing that it had filled gaps in regional Florida history and in American Jewish history.[6][7][8][9] In a review for the Journal of the Southern Jewish Historical Society, Raymond Arsenault remarked that it “introduces a fascinating cast of characters, revealing a unique saga of Jewish community life that no previous historian has chronicled.”[10] The Jews of Key West won the Phillip and Dana Zimmerman Gold Medal for Florida Nonfiction from the Florida Book Awards and a President’s Medal from the Florida Authors and Publishers Association.[11][12] Haskell is also the author of the poetry collection, Joker (Sand Paper Press, 2009).[13][14]

Haskell is the publisher of Sand Paper Press, a small press he founded in 2003, where he has frequently collaborated with poet and translator Stuart Krimko.[2][15][16] Publications include The Last Books of Héctor Viel Temperley (2011), which was translated from Spanish by Krimko and named a BOMB (magazine) Editor’s Choice.[17] Another Sand Paper title, Harry Mathews’s The New Tourism (2010), was co-edited by Haskell and selected as a “Book of the Year” by The Times Literary Supplement.[18][3]

Haskell is currently executive director of Key West Literary Seminar, the nonprofit organization whose eponymous writers’ conference has been held annually since 1983.[19][20] His career with the organization began in 2008, when he led the digitization of its extensive audio archive.[21][22] Since his promotion to executive director in 2015, Haskell has increased the organization’s scholarship program, launched a literary walking tour of Key West, and created writing programs for local high school students.[2]


References

  1. ↑ "Stuart Krimko and Arlo Haskell on Sand Paper Press / Key West". 26 January 2015. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 https://fla-keys.com/news/article/10207/
  3. 1 2 "A Conversation with Harry Mathews - Believer Magazine". 1 January 2012. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  4. ↑ John Ashbery, Collected Poems 1956-1987, edited by Mark Ford. (New York: The Library of America, 2008.), p. 1003.
  5. ↑ ""Call Me David" — How David Wolkowsky Showed me the World - Key West Literary Seminar". 28 September 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  6. ↑ "The Jews of Key West: Smugglers, Cigar Makers, and Revolutionaries (1823-1969) by Arlo Haskell - Jewish Book Council". www.jewishbookcouncil.org. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  7. ↑ "A history of Jews at the southernmost corner of the U.S. - Charlotte County Florida Weekly". 5 July 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  8. ↑ "The Jews of Key West: Smugglers, Cigar Makers, and Revolutionaries". 26 March 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  9. ↑ Marilyn Bowden, Miami Today, November 30, 2017, p. 23.
  10. ↑ Raymond Arsenault, Southern Jewish History, Vol. 21. (Charleston, 2018), p. 182-5.
  11. ↑ "Arlo Haskell Wins Florida Book Award for "The Jews of Key West"". Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  12. ↑ "Book Awards - Florida Authors & Publishers Association". Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  13. ↑ Haskell, Arlo (12 October 2018). "Joker". Sand Paper Press. Retrieved 12 October 2018 – via Google Books.
  14. ↑ Haskell, Arlo (28 February 2011). "Arlo Haskell". Arlo Haskell. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  15. ↑ "Stuart Krimko and Arlo Haskell on Sand Paper Press / Key West". 26 January 2015.
  16. ↑ Magazine, T. "10 of the Gallerist David Kordansky's Top Cultural Influences".
  17. ↑ "The Last Books of Hector Viel Temperley by Lila Zemborain - BOMB Magazine". bombmagazine.org. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  18. ↑ Times Literary Supplement, June 24, 2011.
  19. ↑ "Building a Literary Bridge to the Caribbean: An Interview with Key West Literary Seminar Executive Director, Arlo Haskell". 9 February 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  20. ↑ "Key West Literary Seminar". C-SPAN.org. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  21. ↑ "Worshipful Company of Snowbirds - Poetry Off the Shelf". Poetry Foundation. 11 October 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  22. ↑ "audio archive - Key West Literary Seminar". Retrieved 12 October 2018.
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