About
Hello, my name is Thomas Israel Hopkins (but you can call me Tom—it’s both my Hebrew name and my nickname). (I became a Jew in June 2007; I decided to change my middle name to Israel in June 2008; I’ve been meaning to write at length about both of these things for a while, either on this site or elsewhere, but have not done so quite yet.)
I’m a writer, editor, and mimeograph 2.0 paradigm expert. (See below.)
Emily, Toby, and I live in Brooklyn and Brooklyn on Hudson, beautiful, delicious, (and surprisingly affordable!) Kingston, New York.
Writing About Myself as a Writer in the Third Person
Thomas Israel Hopkins’s stories have appeared or are forthcoming in the print magazines and lit journals Fence, River Styx, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Indiana Review, Sonora Review, The L Magazine, One Story, Quick Fiction, and Opium Magazine; the online lit journals (and online editions of journals) Yankee Pot Roast, failbetter.com, Conjunctions, and Pindeldyboz; and in the anthology Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader. He has also written for Bookforum, Poets & Writers, and the Los Angeles Times. He has been a fellow at the Albee Foundation and the Ucross Foundation, and is a graduate of NYU’s Creative Writing Program, the fiction faculty of which nominated his work for the 2007 edition of the Best New American Voices anthology.
A Complete List of Credits for My Work as President and CEO of Tom Hopkins’s Fantastic Fiction and Nonfiction Manufacturing Concern
is now on my new bibliography page.
More Variations on the Theme of Autobiography
can be found here.
A Q&A
can be found here.
My Mimeograph 2.0 Paradigm Expertise
In addition to this site, the Soft Skull Press site (and blog—see also), and the Gloria Deluxe site, I also designed and built a Painted Bride Quarterly archive, as well as early, Movable Type-driven, no-longer-extant incarnations of author sites for Colson Whitehead (see also) and Scott Snyder (see also).
I was a panelist on a workshop in 2002 at the Small Press Center titled “Do-It-Yourself Design for Books and Websites.” I also chaired and moderated a panel titled “The DIY Web: What Writers Make of the New Now” at the AWP Conference and Bookfair in March 2004.
A Few More Details About My Professional Expertness
can be found on LinkedIn.
About This Site
This is a personal Web site that has gone through a number of incarnations since I registered the domain name in March 2000. Over the years, it’s usually landed somewhere between journal, portfolio, and business card. Since 2001 or so it’s been a somewhat sporadic blog. At first, I hand-coded everything. (That got tiresome real quick. But I kept at it.) Then I switched to Movable Type in 2005. Since the fall of 2007, I’ve been using WordPress, which is awesome.
For years I just called the site tom hop dot com, but then, at some point, that felt inadequate, so I began rotating a small selection of titles for it, as follows: the Fitful Scratch-Pad, the Dissemination Apparatus, the Persuasion Machine, the Discontinuous Palimpsest, the Memoranda Manufactory, the Capricious Atelier, and the Episodic Disquisition. Now I call it the Mimeograph 2.0 Paradigm, on account of my expertise therein. (See above.)
Copyright
Unless otherwise noted (such as in quotes which, to the best of my understanding and abilities, are all in compliance with the principle of fair use), all the years of writing and other sorts of content piled up on this site are copyright by me, Thomas Israel Hopkins; and although I’m a big fan of the concept of Creative Commons licenses, all rights, here, are reserved. (Why do people ever assume otherwise?)
Contact Information
For people who are not me:
If you’re trying to get in touch with a published writer who is not me—one who does not have contact information on his or her personal site—the best way to do it is to either contact that writer’s agent, or to send a letter addressed to the author care of “author mail” at his or her publisher. (Trust me, this lovely old-fashioned system works; and your correspondence will actually reach the writer in question, unlike correspondence sent to that writer care of me, which I will most likely recycle.)
For me:
PO Box 1924
Kingston, NY 12402