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Brock Clarke

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http://arsonistsguide.com/

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Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

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Brock Clarke is the author of three previous books: The Ordinary White Boy and two story collections. His stories and essays have appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, OneStory, the Believer, the Georgia Review, and the Southern Review and have appeared in the annual Pushcart Prize and New Stories from the South anthologies and on NPR's Selected Shorts. He lives in Cincinnati and teaches creative writing at the University of Cincinnati.

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Books by Brock Clarke

Average rating: 2.97 · 3,881 ratings · 1,065 reviews · 6 distinct works

	An Arsonist's Guide To Writers' Homes In New England: A Novel 2.92 avg rating — 3,475 ratings — published 2007 — 20 editions	My rating:
	Exley 3.40 avg rating — 243 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Ordinary White Boy 2.89 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Carrying the Torch: Stories 3.95 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	What We Won't Do: Stories 4.22 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	The Cincinnati Review 4.1 by Dan Bogen, Brock Clarke, Nicola Mason 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007	My rating:

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“Fear and love might leave a man complacent, but jealousy will always get him out of the van.”
― Brock Clarke, An Arsonist's Guide To Writers' Homes In New England: A Novel

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“If only my mother had a book to hold, she wouldn't have looked so lonely. And maybe this was another reason why people read: not so they would feel less lonely, but so that other people would think they looked less lonely with a book in their hands and therefore not pity them and leave them alone.”
― Brock Clarke, An Arsonist's Guide To Writers' Homes In New England: A Novel

14 people liked it

“All of this made me feel better about myself, and I was grateful to the books for teaching me-without my even having to read them- that there were people in the world more desperate, more self-absorbed, more boring than I was. - about memoirs”
― Brock Clarke, An Arsonist's Guide To Writers' Homes In New England: A Novel

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