Elisa Albert

Author profile

born

Los Angeles, California, The United States

gender

female

website

http://www.elisaalbert.com/bio.htm

genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

influences

Philip Roth, Saul Bellow

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Elisa Albert (b.1978) is the author of the short story collection How This Night is Different and the novel The Book of Dahlia. Albert is a founding editor of Jewcy.com and an adjunct assistant professor of creative writing at Columbia University.

She lives with writer Edward Schwarzschild and their son in Brooklyn and Albany. She is editing Freud's Blind Spot an anthology about siblings to be published in 2010.

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Elisa Albert's Books

Average rating: 3.31 · 889 ratings · 219 reviews · 3 distinct works · Similar authors

	The Book of Dahlia 3.25 of 5 stars 3.25 avg rating — 755 ratings — published 2008 — 11 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How This Night Is Different: Stories 3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Freud's Blind Spot: 23 Original Essays on Cherished, Estranged, Lost, Hurtful, Hopeful, Complicated Siblings 3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Elisa Albert

“It's decidedly bizzare, when the Worst Thing hppens and you find yourself still conscious, still breathing.”
― Elisa Albert, The Book of Dahlia

tags: bad-things-happen, breathing, living

10 people liked it

“She developed a kind of disdain for her only sibling usually reserved for despotic political regimes and perpetrators of genocide.”
― Elisa Albert, The Book of Dahlia

3 people liked it

“Why so profane, ask the bookclubbers? Because we are talking here about death, and fuck you if you don't like it: You're going to die, too. This is serious. Fuck fuck fuck.”
― Elisa Albert, The Book of Dahlia

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