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Rachel Resnick
goodreads author profile
url
http://www.goodreads.com/lovejunkie
gender
female
place of birth
Jerusalem, Israel
website
genre
Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction
influences
Gertrude Stein, Flannery O'Connor, Tobias Wolff, Jean Rhys, Denis Johnson, Michael Ondaatje, Raymond Chandler, Tom Wolfe, Charles Bukowski, Mary Gaitskill, Patricia Highsmith, John Fante, David Goodis, Murasaki Shikibu
member since
July 2008
about this author
I'm a writer and entrepreneur. My first memoir, LOVE JUNKIE, is coming out this fall with Bloomsbury. I've gotten incredible support from other writers. See the quotes below. I'm revamping http://www.rachelresnick.com this week. I'll let you know when it's up for visiting. Meanwhile, LOVE JUNKIE is already available for pre-sale! Here're some links:
http://www.amazon.com/Love-Junkie-Memoir...
http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9781596...
Several years ago, I published my first book, GO WEST YOUNG F*CKED-UP CHICK (St. Martin's). This was an L.A. Times bestseller. I also have an unpublished mod-noir novel, SWAY. Excerpts have been published in Black Clock magazine.
I am founder and CEO of Writers On Fire. We ...more
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Love Junkie: A Memoir by Rachel Resnick (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.51 — 65 ratings — published 2008 2 editions |
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Go West Young F*cked-Up Chick: A Novel of Separation by Rachel Resnick (Goodreads author) avg rating 2.92 — 37 ratings — published 1999 2 editions |
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Love Junkie: A Memoir by Rachel Resnick (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2009 |
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Stray Dog Winter (Hardcover) by David Francis bookshelves: currently-reading |
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The When You're Falling, Dive: Lessons in the Art of Living (Hardcover) by Mark Matousek bookshelves: currently-reading |
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When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Paperback) by Pema Chödrön bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Love Junkie: A Memoir
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America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life (Hardcover) by Benoit Denizet-Lewis |
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Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders (Hardcover) by Aimee Liu (Goodreads author) |
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Addiction as an Attachment Disorder (Hardcover) by Philip J. Flores |
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Truth Comes in Blows: A Memoir (Paperback) by Ted Solotaroff |
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"Whatever it takes to break your heart and wake you up is grace."
— Mark Matousek (Sex Death Enlightenment: A True Story)
— Mark Matousek (Sex Death Enlightenment: A True Story)
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"A deeply true, wholly aching account of the dangerous way we live now--LOVE JUNKIE is great fun to read, and finally fully redemptive. Rachel Resnick brings a light, delightful touch to a hard subject, and creates a great, relatable, readable memoir."
— Elizabeth Wurtzel (More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction)
— Elizabeth Wurtzel (More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction)
"LOVE JUNKIE is so alive, it reads as though Rachel Resnick sliced open her heart, dipped in her pen, and chronicled her life of carnal and romantic madness in an ambulance with a bed in it. The result is a memoir of flesh and redemption, told with scorching intensity and clear-eyed, universal truth. As addictions go, sex and love possess their own brand of degradation and euphoria, and Resnick, like all great self-destructive artist/survivors, has clawed her way out of the abyss and crafted a savage, ass-wild language all her own to capture the need that drives her - and us - to dive back in. Love Junkie is a fearless, nasty, affectionate, weirdly spiritual, sex-soaked, smart and un-putdown-able Valentine from hell."
— Jerry Stahl (Permanent Midnight: A Memoir)
— Jerry Stahl (Permanent Midnight: A Memoir)
"Rachel Resnick's story of love lost and love sought cracks open the timeworn addiction narrative to release something raw, probing, brave, and redemptive. The courage it took to write this story is challenged only by the courage it must have taken to live it. I sit in awe of such unflinching honesty. LOVE JUNKIE is memoir at its very best."
— Hope Edelman (Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss)
— Hope Edelman (Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss)
"Heartbreaking and brave, Rachel Resnick masterfully pulls the past to the present, exploring how the seeds of addiction planted during an unhappy girlhood can blossom into a grown-up woman's frantic search for love. LOVE JUNKIE is a memoir unlike any other; it will blow your mind."
— Lee Montgomery (The Things Between Us: A Memoir)
— Lee Montgomery (The Things Between Us: A Memoir)
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Hi Rachel and thanks for adding me as a friend. A big congrats on Love Junkie! I'll have to check it out! I love your website, btw. If you have time, I'd love for you to look at mine. www.jeanniebarber.com.
Blessings,
Jeannie
