Wikipedia / Mark Sarvas
Wikipedia / Mark Sarvas
Mark Sarvas (born September 26, 1964) is an American novelist, critic, and blogger living in Los Angeles. He is the host of the literary blog The Elegant Variation and author of the novel Harry, Revised (2008). Harry, Revised was published by Bloomsbury, and was a finalist for the Fiction Prize of the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association. It was also a 2008 Denver Post Good Reads selection.
Sarvas is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and PEN America, and a contributing editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books.
His second novel, Memento Park, was acquired by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in May 2014, and published in March 2018. His third novel, @UGMAN, was published in 2025.
Awards
2005: The Guardian Top 10 Litblog
2005: Los Angeles magazine Top LA Blog
2006: Forbes Best of the Web
2008: Southern California Independent Booksellers Association: First Fiction Prize finalist
2018: Santa Monica Arts Fellowship
2019: AJL Fiction Award
2019: American Book Award for Memento Park
2019: Finalist, Sami Rohr Prize
2019: Shortlisted, JQ Wingate Literary Prize.
Bibliography
Harry, Revised (2008)
Memento Park (2018)
@UGMAN (2025)
External links
NY Times Review of Joshua Cohen's Book of Numbers