Tess Callahan
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January 2009
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Tess Callahan’s first novel, April & Oliver, will be published by Grand Central Publishing on June 3, 2009. An excerpt appeared in Agni and was nominated for the PUSHCART PRIZE. A Mother’s Day essay is forthcoming in The New York Times Magazine’s “Lives” column on May 10, 2009. Her work has also appeared in Cottonwood, The Stylus Anthology: 1950-2000, The Boston College Magazine, New York Newsday and The LA Times/Washington Post news service through syndication. She has participated in workshops at Bread Loaf, Squaw Valley, The Ragdale Foundation, The Writer’s Voice, The University of Kansas, and The University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She earned a B.A. from Boston College, a M.Ed. from SUNY Buffalo, and a M.F.A. from Bennington Co...more
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April & Oliver: A Novel by Tess Callahan (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.47 — 440 ratings — published 2009 |
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April & Oliver: A Novel by Tess Callahan (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.50 — 6 ratings — published 2009 |
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April & Oliver (Literature & Fiction)
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Novel due out from Grand Central Press on June 3, 2009
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Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories (Hardcover) by Steven Millhauser bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Tess
said "yes" to attending the event: Chat Live with Debut Novelist Tess Callahan .
date: June 30, 2009 01:00PM location: Blog Talk Radio , The United States description: Dial 646-378-0039 or listen live at www.blogtalkradio.com/grandcentralpub | |
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The Stuff of Fiction: Advice on Craft (Paperback) by Douglas Bauer |
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The Book of Famous Iowans: A Novel (Paperback) by Douglas Bauer |
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Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories (Hardcover) by Steven Millhauser |
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Unaccustomed Earth (Hardcover) by Jhumpa Lahiri |
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read in April, 2009
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"The most subtle details of domestic life are beautifully observed and stunningly depicted in these stories of real-life love with all of its unexpected complications and moments of grace. A beauty of a book.
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2666 (Narrativas Hispanicas) by Roberto Bolaño |
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The Virgin Suicides (Paperback) by Jeffrey Eugenides |
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""You need to start doing what's uncomfortable for you, April. Because your idea of what feels right took a left turn somewhere.""
— Tess Callahan
— Tess Callahan
""I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction."
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— Saul Bellow
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— Saul Bellow
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