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Kate Braverman

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born

February 01, 1950 in The United States

website

http://www.katebraverman.com

genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

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Kate Braverman (born 1950) is an American novelist, short story writer, and poet, originally from Los Angeles, California, who has garnered great acclaim for works including the novels Lithium for Medea (1979), Palm Latitudes (1988), Wonders of the West (1993), and The Incantation of Frida K (2001). Her most significant work has been in stylistic hybrid forms built upon poems and rendered as short stories. She has published two books of short stories, "Squandering the Blue" (1990) and "Small Craft Warnings" (1997). She has also published four books of poetry. She has won three Best American Short Stories awards, an O. Henry Award, Carver Short Story Award, as well as the Economist Prize and an Isherwood Fellowship. She is also the first rec...more

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Books by Kate Braverman

Average rating: 3.92 · 890 ratings · 120 reviews · 16 distinct works

	Lithium for Medea by Kate Braverman, Rick Moody (Foreword by) 3.97 avg rating — 118 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Incantation of Frida K. by Kate Braverman, M. Astella Saw (Designed by) 3.71 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Squandering the Blue: -- Stories 3.96 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Palm Latitudes 3.98 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1988 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Small Craft Warnings: Stories 4.05 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles: An Accidental Memoir 3.76 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Wonders of the West 3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1993	My rating:
	Lullaby for Sinners: Poems 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1980 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Hurricane Warnings 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1987	My rating:
	Dropping in; putting it all back together 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1972	My rating:

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Quotes by Kate Braverman

“I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I had deja vu many times each day. I was thirteen.”
― Kate Braverman, Small Craft Warnings: Stories

tags: belief , deja-vu , faith , prophecy , teen , thirteen

7 people liked it

“Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear.”
― Kate Braverman

6 people liked it

“I know California isn't a real destination. You can't get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line drawn on a map. The process of arrival is more subtle and complex. It involves acts of contrition. You must appease the gods. You must find novel forms of penance. You must tattoo your children and look at the wonder. It's about conjuring and awakening and intuitions you wish you never had.”
― Kate Braverman, Wonders of the West

tags: fantasy

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