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The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
4.0
I’ve never been a big fan of science-fiction or fantasy. I seem to have a problem with planets and aliens and unicorns. However, in the hands of Jeanette Winterson, one of my favorite authors, I can get on the alternate reality train.
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Secret Lives of Great Authors: What Your Teachers Never Told You about Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights by Robert Schnakenberg
4.0
Secret Lives of Great Authors is the kind of book that you should read in the company of others. It’s filled with odd bits of trivia that you want to share with someone the instant you read them, and without sharing the trivia seems to fly right out of your head.
I was going to come here and write all kinds of witty little things about all the secrets that I learned while reading the book and it seems that I have forgotten a lot of them. The overall impression that I got from this book is that writers drink a lot and have a lot of sex. Here are a few of the other things I remember:
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I was going to come here and write all kinds of witty little things about all the secrets that I learned while reading the book and it seems that I have forgotten a lot of them. The overall impression that I got from this book is that writers drink a lot and have a lot of sex. Here are a few of the other things I remember:
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The Night of the Gun by David Carr
4.0
Let’s get this out of the way right off the bat, because some of you won’t make it to the end of this piece. David Carr’s memoir The Night of the Gun is really good. It’s dramatic, spell-binding, engaging, encouraging, and all sorts of good stuff you look for in a book. In fact the memoir is so good I often forgot it was non-fiction and had to remind myself that David Carr was a real man in the world and not some repugnant creature from a writer’s imagination.
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Who Do You Love: Stories by Jean Thompson
4.0
Jean Thompson’s short stories are so beautiful that it frustrates me that she’s not more revered. At least she’s not revered in the short-story centric circles I run in. It’s a damn, damn shame.
I first heard of Thompson from, of all people, David Sedaris. He mentioned how much he loved her work at a reading he did in Duluth. But it wasn’t until I read her Largehearted Boy Book Notes essay that I really paid attention. Glory be! Her collection Throw Like a Girl was one of my favorite books last year.
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I first heard of Thompson from, of all people, David Sedaris. He mentioned how much he loved her work at a reading he did in Duluth. But it wasn’t until I read her Largehearted Boy Book Notes essay that I really paid attention. Glory be! Her collection Throw Like a Girl was one of my favorite books last year.
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