Adam Levin

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Adam Levin’s debut novel, The Instructions was published in late 2010. His stories have appeared in Tin House, McSweeney’s, and Esquire. Winner of the 2003 Tin House/Summer Literary Seminars Fiction Contest and the 2004 Joyce Carol Oates Fiction Prize, Levin holds an MA in Clinical Social Work from the University of Chicago and an MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. His collection of short stories, Hot Pink, will be published by McSweeney’s in 2011. He lives in Chicago, where he teaches writing at Columbia College and The School of the Art Institute.

Authorial Influences and Inspirations: Adam Novy, George Saunders, Leslie Lockett, Stanley Elkin, Christian TeBordo, Rebecca Curtis, Jerzy Kosinski, David Foster Wallace, Salvador...more

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Average rating: 4.10 · 865 ratings · 241 reviews · 4 distinct works

	The Instructions 4.14 avg rating — 711 ratings — published 2010 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Hot Pink 3.88 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Hot Pink 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	My rating:
	The United States of McSweeney's: Ten Years of Lucky Mistakes and Accidental Classics by Nick Hornby (Editor), Eli Horowitz (Editor), K. Kvashay-Boyle 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed.”
― Adam Levin, The Instructions

tags: betrayal , fear , misunderstood

22 people liked it

“Why do we weep once we know that everything will be alright? We weep because the only way everything could ever be alright is in fiction. We weep because what we've seen can't be true, no matter how badly we wish it were. We weep at the truth.”
― Adam Levin, The Instructions

tags: fiction , truth , weep , weeping

9 people liked it

“Books are truer than movies.”
― Adam Levin, The Instructions

tags: books-movies-instructions-levin

6 people liked it

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