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Mark Sarvas

Mark Sarvas
Mark Sarvas is best known as the host of the popular and controversial literary weblog The Elegant Variation which has been mentioned by The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Guardian, Forbes Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, The Scotsman, the Christian Science Monitor, Slate, The Village Voice, and NPR. He is a founding member of Litblog Co-op, a group of 21 blogs dedicated the best contemporary fiction.

Mark has written episodic comedy, screenplays, and fiction – including his debut novel, HARRY, REVISED (Text Publishing, 2008).

A member of the National Book Critics Circle, Mark Sarvas lives in Los Angeles.
Mark Sarvas will be appearing:

Youth isn’t always wasted on the young.
The secrets that lie within three novels
The most fragile of subjects
Mark Sarvas will give wannabe literary novelists a tough-love shove towards writing their first big book.