Discipline: Literature – nonfiction

Jack Hitt

Discipline: Literature – nonfiction
Region: New Haven, CT
MacDowell Fellowships: 2003
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Jack Hitt is an American author. He is a contributing editor to Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, and “This American Life.” He has also written for the now-defunct magazine Lingua Franca, and his work frequently appears in such publications as Outside Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Wired. In 1990, he received the Livingston Award, along with Paul Tough, for an article about computer hackers who gained access to the New York telephone system. In 2006, a piece on the racist subtexts of a study on the first Americans was selected for Best American Science Writing and another piece about dying languages appeared in Best American Travel Writing. Another piece, on the existential life of a superfund site, was included in Ira Glass's The New Kings of Nonfiction (2007). In 2017 he cohosted the Gimlet Media podcast “Uncivil” along with Chenjerai Kumanyika.

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Star

Jack Hitt worked in the Star studio.

Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…

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