David Lazar’s most recent books are Stories of the Street: Reimagining Found Texts (University of Nebraska Press, 2024), Celeste Holm Syndrome: On Character Actors (University of Nebraska Press, 2020), and the anthology Don’t Look Now: Writers on What They Wish They Hadn’t Seen (Mad Creek Books/Ohio State University Press, 2020), coedited with Kristen Iversen.
His other books include essay collections I’ll Be Your Mirror: Essays and Aphorisms (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), Occasional Desire (University of Nebraska Press, 2013), and The Body of Brooklyn (Sightline Books/University of Iowa Press, 2003), and two prose poem collections: Who’s Afraid of Helen of Troy (Etruscan Press, 2016) and Powder Town (Pecan Grove Press, 2008).
He coedited the anthology After Montaigne (University of Georgia Press, 2015) with Patrick Madden and is also the editor of Conversations with M.F.K. Fisher (1992) and Michael Powell: Interviews (2003), both with the University of Mississippi Press . Forthcoming from Nebraska is Double Indemnities (collaborative essays). Ten of his essays have been named “Notable Essays of the Year” by Best American Essays.
Lazar was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship in nonfiction in 2016. He is the coeditor of Ohio State University’s 21st Century Essays imprint. In his teaching life, he created the undergraduate and graduate nonfiction programs at Ohio University and Columbia College Chicago.
