Peter Trachtenberg

Peter Trachtenberg (born 1953) is an American writer of fiction, nonfiction, and memoir.

Life

He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, and from City College of New York with an MA. He is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh.[1]and a member of the core faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars.

His work appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's,[2] BOMB,[3] TriQuarterly, O, The New York Times Travel Magazine, and A Public Space.

In 2001, he married writer Mary Gaitskill.[4] They divorced in 2010.[5]

Torches: A Novel. City College of New York. 1979.
The Casanova Complex: Compulsive Lovers and Their Women. Poseiden Press. 1988. ISBN 978-0-671-62048-6.
7 Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh. Crown. 1997. ISBN 978-0-517-70172-0.
The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and its Meaning. Little, Brown. 2008. ISBN 978-0-316-15879-4.
Another Insane Devotion: On the Love of Cats and Persons. Da Capo Press. 2012. ISBN 978-0-73821-526-6.

Laurie Stone, ed. (1998). "I Kiss Her Goodbye". Close to the Bone: Memoirs of Hurt, Rage, and Desire. Grove Press. p. 118. ISBN 978-0-8021-3582-7. Peter Trachtenberg.

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