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While I’m mostly spending this spring trying to finish my new novel (due out from Riverhead in the summer of 2014), I’ve also got some very cool things on the docket. For example:
-I’m teaching a fiction workshop at the Center for Fiction, Manhattan’s only free-standing monument to the art of making things up. There’s still time to sign up! Please join us if you’re so inclined. Here’s more info...
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Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures
— published 2012 — 16 editions |
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Other People We Married
— published 2011 — 7 editions |
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Fly Over State
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First Winter
by Elijah Mac Jenkins , Jorge Luis Borges, Ha Jin — published 2008 |
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Cousin Corinne's Reminder
by Shira Nayman, James Frey, Hannah Zeavin — published 2010 |
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"A callow young actress transforms into an alluring screen siren in the debut novel, Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures, set during Hollywood's lavish golden age." ...More
"A callow young actress transforms into an alluring screen siren in the debut novel, Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures, set during Hollywood's lavish golden age." ...More
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“She wanted the world to stop and take notice before hobbling forward, forever changed. The problem was that no one seemed to be changed but her.”
― Emma Straub, Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures
― Emma Straub, Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures
“That was what love was, though, wasn't it? Holding each other's misery as close as your own?”
― Emma Straub, Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures
― Emma Straub, Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures
“... She might have thought that it was the case, that all things worked out in the end, and that the world was a benevolent place, but she knew better now, and had to fake it.”
― Emma Straub, Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures
― Emma Straub, Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures
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