[close] Mark Sarvas's debut novel, HARRY, REVISED, will be published by Bloomsbury in May 2008, and in more than a dozen countries around the world. He has written episodic comedy for HBO and Showtime as well as screenplays for Warner Brothers, producer David Foster, and the World Entertainment and Business Network. His fiction has appeared in Troika Magazine, The Wisconsin Review, Apostrophe, Thought Magazine, Pindeldyboz and as part of the Spoken Interludes, Vermin on the Mount and Swink reading series in Los Angeles. His book reviews and criticism have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Threepenny Review, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Modern Word, Boldtype and the Los Angeles Review, and he is a member of the National Book Critics Circle. He is best known as the host of the popular and controversial literary weblog The Elegant Variation which has been covered by The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Guardian (A Top 10 Literary Blog), Forbes Magazine (Best of the Web), Los Angeles Magazine (A Top L.A. Blog), The Scotsman, Salon, the Christian Science Monitor, Slate, The Village Voice, NPR and numerous other fine publications. (Author photo: Sara Corwin) " [close]