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Steve Adams (born Steven Saint Lawrence Adams, February 8, 1947) [citation needed] is an American author and screenwriter who also uses the penname Waldo Mellon. [1] He wrote Envy (2004), starring Ben Stiller and Jack Black. [2] Adams conceived the idea with long-time friend Larry David. [3]
Steve Adams’s writing has won a Pushcart Prize and has been listed as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays. He’s won Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers, been a guest artist at The University of Texas, and his plays have been produced in New York City.
But Steve Adams, through an alchemy of narrative stealth and lissome prose, fired to a cherry red in the binary crucible of Texas in the 1960s and New York in the 1980s (territories already thoroughly consecrated to love and loss), produces a new kind of shimmering, literary metal.
Oct 11, 2022 · Steve Adams tells parallel stories of a young artist falling in love with a married woman in New York and his enigmatically shadowed childhood in Texas. The parallel stories weave back and forth with many beautiful and painful experiences told with honesty and subtlety.
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Essay excerpt chosen as part of The Creative Process's exhibition for the European Consortium For Humanities Institutes and Centres, and projected in an art installation at University of Leuven in Belgium, 2018 2016 Best American Essaysselection for "Notable Essay" Pushcart Prize Nomination, Nonfiction, Grist Journal, 2015 Jentel Artists Residency ...
Novels Stay with Me a Little Longer • University of Wisconsin Press – Forthcoming (Fall/Winter 2022) Creative Nonfiction/Memoir “Sharon Tate Has Always Haunted My Dreams” • Bull– January 2020 “Bob the Diviner” • Under the Sun– May 2019 “Beautiful Living Things: A Farewell to Glimmer Train” • The Millions– November 2018 "Give Me a Hug" • Jellyfish R...
Great Jones Street: Steve Adams - NaNoWriMo Interviews Read to Write Stories: Interview with Steve Adams
New York City “Cheez Doodles” • Perry Street Theater • Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art • Upstate Summer Rep Theater (Buffalo) “Who Killed Rufus?” • Perry Street Theater The Elvis Trinity(“Velvet Elvis,” “Love Child of the Gods,” “Elvis Was a Good Boy”) • Circle Rep Lab (“Velvet Elvis”) The Needs of Children • The American Theatre of Actors U....
Contributing Editor (ongoing) – The Pushcart Prize Anthology. (Nominated stories, “A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness” by Jai Chakrabarti included in the 2018 Pushcart Anthology, and “Sundays” by Emma Copley Eisenberg included in the 2019 Pushcart Anthology.) Panelist for Writer's League of Texas's Third Thursday at BookPeople in Austin: "...
Oct 11, 2022 · Steve Adams’s deft debut novel, REMEMBER THIS, zigzags between two worlds: the present day plot is fully immersed in New York City of 1988 (a city then clogged with grit and graffiti, and tragically, plagued by AIDS—rubbing up against the rise of computers and gentrification).
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Writer: Envy. Steve Adams is known for Envy (2004), Waiting for Forever (2010) and No Stranger Than Love (2015).
