{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox writer | embed = | honorific_prefix = | name = Daniel Levin Becker | honorific_suffix = | image = Daniel Levin Becker 1061151.jpg | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1984}}<!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = | language = | residence = | education = | alma_mater = Yale University | home_town = | period = | genre = writer, translator <!-- or: | genres = --> | subject = <!-- or: | subjects = --> | movement = | notableworks = <!-- or: | notablework = --> | spouse = <!-- or: | spouses = --> | partner = <!-- or: | partners = --> | children = | relatives = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | years_active = | module = | website = <!-- {{URL|example.org}} --> | portaldisp = <!-- "on", "yes", "true", etc; or omit --> }} '''Daniel Levin Becker'''{{efn-ua|The last name is "Levin Becker".<ref name=Channels />}} (born 1984 in Chicago) is an American writer, translator and musical critic.
==Life== In 2006, he finished his undergraduate studies in English and French at Yale University, where he also wrote for campus humor magazine ''Yale Record''. <ref>{{cite journal|last1=Levin Becker|first1=Daniel|last2=Glazier|first2=Martin|title=The Maelstrom Recording Diaries|journal=The Yale Record|date=May 2003|location=New Haven}}</ref> <ref>Levin Becker, Daniel and Martin Glazier (May, 2003). "The Maelstrom Recording Diaries". ''The Yale Record''. New Haven: Yale Record.</ref> In 2009 he was elected member of the French literary workshop Oulipo, making him the second American member of this group (the first is Harry Mathews). He was elected after a Fulbright year spent organizing and indexing that group's archives. He is the author of ''Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature,'' published in April 2012 by Harvard University Press.<ref name="Channels">{{cite book |last1=Levin Becker |first1=Daniel |title=Many Subtle Channels: In Praise of Potential Literature |date=April 2012 |author-link=Daniel Levin Becker |publisher=Harvard University Press |location=Boston |isbn=978-0-674-06577-2 |url= http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674065772 |accessdate=13 May 2017 |quote=Drawn to the Oulipo’s mystique, Levin Becker secured a Fulbright grant to study the organization and traveled to Paris.}}</ref>
Levin Becker<ref name=Channels /> is currently the reviews editor for the magazine ''The Believer''.<ref>{{cite web|author=U.S.A. |url=http://www.believermag.com/about/ |title=The Believer - About |publisher=Believermag.com |date= |accessdate=2011-10-09}}</ref>
He also contributes regularly as a music critic for the newspaper ''SF Weekly''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sfweekly.com/authors/daniel-becker/ |title=Daniel Levin Becker - San Francisco |publisher=SF Weekly |accessdate=2011-10-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110806193407/http://www.sfweekly.com/authors/daniel-becker/ |archivedate=2011-08-06 }}</ref> His writings and musical reviews can also be regularly found in ''Dusted Magazine'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dustedmagazine.com/writers/levinbec |title=Dusted Writers [ Daniel Levin Becker ] |publisher=Dustedmagazine.com |date= |accessdate=2011-10-09}}</ref> ''The Point'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thepointmag.com/author/daniellevinbecker |title=Daniel Levin Becker | The Point Magazine Author Archive |publisher=Thepointmag.com |accessdate=2011-10-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111017021920/http://www.thepointmag.com/author/daniellevinbecker |archivedate=2011-10-17 }}</ref> and ''The American Book Review'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://americanbookreview.org/currentIssue.asp |title=Current Issue |publisher=American Book Review |date= |accessdate=2011-10-09}}</ref>
He is among a list of contributors to ''The &NOW Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing''.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}
He has translated from the French texts including Georges Perec's dream journal ''La Boutique Obscure'' and Hervé Le Tellier's short story "A Few Musketeers," as well as ''Georges Perec, Oulibiographer'' by Bernard Magné<ref>{{cite web|author=Bernard Magné |url=http://www.drunkenboat.com/db8/oulipo/feature-oulipo/essays/magne/oulibio.html |title=Georges Perec, Oulibiographer |publisher=Drunkenboat.com |date=1982-03-03 |accessdate=2011-10-09}}</ref> and ''Letter from the Author to his Editor'' by Marcel Bénabou.<ref>{{cite web|author=Marcel Bénabou |url=http://www.drunkenboat.com/db8/oulipo/feature-oulipo/oulipo/texts/benabou/letter_en.html |title=Letter |publisher=Drunkenboat.com |date= |accessdate=2011-10-09}}</ref> Levin Becker became an Oulipian when he was only 24, the youngest member at the time. He was also the youngest member and songwriter for the project band Mujeres Encinta that he joined when he was only a teenager.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://artforum.com/diary/id=22421 |title=trompe lit - artforum.com / scene & herd |publisher=Artforum.com |date= |accessdate=2011-10-09}}</ref>
==Works== * ''Many subtle channels : in praise of potential literature'', Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012. {{ISBN|978-0-674-06577-2}}, {{OCLC|758383680}} * ''L'Herminette'', Calgary, Alberta : No Press, 2017. {{OCLC|1059130145}} * ''All that is evident is suspect : readings from the Oulipo 1963-2018'', San Francisco : McSweeney's, 2018. {{ISBN|978-1-944211-52-3}}, {{OCLC|1076361462}} * ''What's Good: Notes on Rap and Language'' (City Lights, 2022)''.'' {{ISBN|978-0-87286-876-2}}
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==External links== * [http://dinnerlunchbreakfast.com/ Daniel Levin Becker's website] * [http://www.oulipo.net/oulipiens/DLB Daniel Levin Becker's official page on the Oulipo website] * [http://blog.colinmarshall.org/?p=924 An interview with Daniel Levin Becker] on ''Notebook on Cities and Culture''
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