Dan Schneider (writer) - Media Coverage

Media Coverage

In 1999, the alternative newspaper City Pages (a sister paper of the Village Voice) printed a cover story about Schneider. The article, titled "Dan Schneider vs. the Rest of the World," focused on Schneider’s attempts to change what he saw as the incestuous nature of the Twin Cities' poetry scene. In addition to samples of Schneider’s own poetry, the article featured comments about Schneider from both supporters and detractors. The reaction to the article was massive. According to the writer of the article, more people responded to the article than anything the newspaper had ever published. For a month afterward, City Pages published letters to the editor about the article, with most of the established poets in the Twin Cities condemning Schneider and most general readers praising his honesty. The article later won a third place award for best Arts Feature in the nation from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.

In 2004, Schneider and his critical essays about literature were mentioned in a New York Times article, "The Widening Web of Digital Lit" by David Orr. He has also been quoted in other newspapers such as The Village Voice and on public radio. Finally, Schneider’s work has been condemned and praised by a number of online publications, from Web del Sol to the Quarterly Literary Review Singapore to various blogs.

In 2008, Schneider's review of the novel White Teeth, by British author Zadie Smith was a featured excerpt in Contemporary Fiction: The Novel Since 1990, edited by Pamela Bickley, and published by Cambridge University Press. His reviews have also been reprinted or excerpted in a number of places, including on the book Design and Truth from Yale University Press. and in The God Problem: How A Godless Cosmos Creates by Howard Bloom.

In 2012, Schneider was asked to join the think tank, The Lifeboat Foundation, to serve as an advisor on their Media & Arts Board and their Sustainability Board.