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Peter Rock
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Friends! A brief respite from my half-assed self-promotion; when I was writing a review of VICKY SWANKY IS A BEAUTY by Diane Williams, I remembered this tiny essay I wrote about a sentence of hers that has long bedeviled me:
http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/9325/the...
http://www.tinhouse.com/blog/9325/the...
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My Abandonment
— published 2009 — 16 editions |
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The Shelter Cycle
— published 2013 — 6 editions |
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The Bewildered
— published 2005 — 4 editions |
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The Unsettling: Stories
— published 2006 — 4 editions |
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This Is the Place
— published 1997 — 2 editions |
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Carnival Wolves
— published 1998 |
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The Ambidextrist
— published 2002 — 4 editions |
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Tin House Magazine (The Willies Edition) (Volume 2)
by Peter Rock (Goodreads Author), Nick Tosches, Janet Fitch (Goodreads Author) — published 2001 |
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Edges
— published 1997 |
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Obesity and Sleep Apnea, An Issue of Anesthesiology Clinics
by Lee A. Fleisher, Peter Rock (Goodreads Author) — published 2005 |
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| I am a hater of craft books about writing, I admit. But I like this Graywolf series, and I especially like anything Stacey D'Erasmo writes, because she has a gift at being the smartest person in the world and not being irritating about it, of bringin...more | |
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| These stories, which are linked, are best read all together. Which is a strength and a weakness. Because some of the stories really don't stand very well on their own, and some are just plain weak, and occasionally the connections feel forced . But t...more | |
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Hybridized human/cats with uncanny abilities--in some ways, the premise of this novel might seem familiar, but reading it is an experience of defamiliarization. And the action of the story is as much about what they do as what and who they are. The st...more |
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Man. Diane Williams is like a person made out of knives whose joints are never where you expect them to be. There's nothing at all like her. I'm a big fan of Lydia Davis--I guess they are similar in that they write extremely short, often oblique and sta...more |
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Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
by D.T. Max (Goodreads Author)
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| This is a fascinating book if you (or anyone you know) is a writer, an addict, has had mental health issues, or has aspirations toward being a human being. I'm not kidding at all. It's a cautionary and inspirational story on so many levels. I won't g...more | |
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| How excellent. This is clearly Jean Thompson's world. I'm so impressed with her skills, her handle, how it seems she can go wherever she like and it always feels organic, so flexibile...so unguided by the author. I really also admire the patience--ho...more | |
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| I found this to be an amazingly assured debut. The prose here is so rich and supple; what's most impressive is the sheer amount of dimension--within individuals, and between them, and politically/historically, and even the way language is plumbed and...more | |
“It is important to always remember that at any time you think of it there are people being kept in buildings when they want to go outside.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment
“If you were to live your life like a prayer, every action a sort of prayer, it would be easy to believe that all your thoughts were the words of God. Perhaps they would be.”
― Peter Rock
― Peter Rock
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