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Karen Elizabeth Gordon

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Karen Elizabeth Gordon, who is most well-known for her comic language handbooks The New Well-Tempered Sentence and The Deluxe Transitive Vampire, is also author to a collection of short stories published by Dalkey Archive Press. The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales was hailed by many critics as Rabelaisian in its humor.

Gordon resides alternately in Berkeley, California and Paris.

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Books by Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Average rating: 3.98 · 1630 ratings · 227 reviews · 14 distinct works

	The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed 408 avg rating — 472 ratings — published 1984	My rating:
	Paris Out of Hand: A Wayward Guide by Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Barbara Hodgson, Nick Bantock 383 avg rating — 235 ratings — published 1996	My rating:
	The New Well Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed 403 avg rating — 228 ratings — published 1983 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexicon 403 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Transitive Vampire 398 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1984 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Torn Wings and Faux Pas: A Flashbook of Style, a Beastly Guide Through the Writer's Labyrinth by Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Rikki Ducornet (Illustrator) 400 avg rating — 38 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness: A Dictionarrative 386 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	The Ravenous Muse: A Table of Dark and Comic Contents, a Bacchanal of Books by Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Dugald Stermer (Illustrator), Fearn Cutler (Designed by) 365 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales 394 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1996	My rating:
	Intimate Apparel 400 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1989	My rating:

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“All phone calls are obscene.”
― Karen Elizabeth Gordon

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“Not only were we naked, crazed, and starving (and far from our warm little homes); we were without any good books as well.”
― Karen Elizabeth Gordon, The New Well Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed

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