EDITING   |   TEACHING   |   WRITING
TOM JENKS is the cofounder and editor of Narrative  Magazine. He is a former editor of Esquire, Gentlemen’s Quarterly, and The Paris Review, and a senior editor at Scribners.
WORKS:
MY READING: JAME’S BALDWIN’S “SONNY'S BLUES”
  • Information and Ordering
    • A POETICS OF FICTION
    Six Chapters on the Art of Imaginative Prose
  • Samples and Ordering
    • AMERICAN SHORT STORY MASTERPIECES
    edited by Raymond Carver and Tom Jenks
  • Introduction
  • Table of Contents
    • ERNEST HEMINGWAY’S THE GARDEN OF EDEN
  • How The Garden of Eden was edited
  • John Updike’s review of the novel
  • Tom Jenks podcast with the Hemingway Society
    • THE WRITER’S LIFE
    from the Diaries of the World’s Great Writers, edited with Carol Edgarian
  • Introduction
  • Samples from the book
    • NARRATIVE
  • Editors' Note
  • Audio Introduction to NYC Narrative Reading
    • TEACHING:
    Tom Jenks has given classes at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the Creative Writing Programs at University of California (Irvine and Davis), Washington University in St. Louis, the Squaw Valley and Bennington Summer Writing Workshops, and, privately, in New York, Boston, Washington, DC, Chicago, Denver, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
    RELATED WORKS
  • A Poetics of Fiction, Six Chapters on the Art of Imaginative Prose
  • My Reading: James Baldwin's “Sonny's Blues,” from Oxford University Press
  • ““Personality and the Writer,” an essay
  • A Brief Handbook of Revision for Writers
  • “So You’re Thinking of Getting an MFA”
  • “Agents: The Business of Writing”
    • His writing has appeared in Harper’s, Ploughshares, Vanity Fair, Esquire, The American Scholar, Five Points, the Los Angeles Times, Conde Nast’s Traveler, The Guardian, Manhattan, Inc., Missouri Review, Columbia, Reasons to Believe, The Encyclopedia of Literary Biography, and elsewhere.
  • “Braid,” a story
  • “In the Room of the Angels,” a story
  • “Come, Labor On,” a story
  • “Merry Elf,” a story
  • Shameless: A Recollection of Ray
  • Ray and Tess: A Literary Love Story
  • Robert Altman’s film version of Ray's Stories
  • “The Old Man and the Manuscript”
  • “The Garden of Eden at Twenty-Five”
    • For BBC’s American Visions: Montana Cowboys, a one-hour program on rural life in America and part of an extended series examining the United States, Tom Jenks helped drive three hundred feral horses across thousands of acres of rugged terrain, in and out of towns, across an interstate highway, and past a forty-foot cliff and other dangers to a summer pasture. It’s an exhilarating and terrifying ride that provides a metaphor for Montana and America today. Tom scripted and narrated the program.


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