Alex Abramovich spent his residency working on his forthcoming book, The History of Rock and Roll, which is under contract to Farrar, Straus & Giroux. The chapters he worked on and completed at MacDowell are ones he'd been struggling with, on and off, for the better part of a decade. His first book, Bullies, came out in 2016.
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Alex Abramovich
Discipline:
Literature – nonfiction
Region: Astoria, NY
MacDowell fellowships: 2017, 2022
More:
www.alexabramovich.com
Studios
Wood
Alex Abramovich worked in the Wood studio.
Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…