Heidi Julavits





Heidi Julavits

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Heidi Suzanne Julavits is an American author and co-editor of The Believer magazine. She has been published in The Best Creative Nonfiction Vol. 2, Esquire, Story, Zoetrope All-Story, and McSweeney's Quarterly. Her novels include The Mineral Palace (2000), The Effect of Living Backwards (2003) and The Uses of Enchantment (2006) and The Vanishers (2012).

She was born and grew up in Portland, Maine, before attending Dartmouth College. She later went on to earn an MFA from Columbia University.

She wrote the article "Rejoice! Believe! Be Strong and Read Hard!" (subtitled: "A Call For A New Era Of Experimentation, and a Book Culture That Will Support It") in the debut issue of The Believer, a publication which attempts to avoid snarkiness and "giv...more


Average rating: 3.16 · 4,012 ratings · 760 reviews · 41 distinct works · Similar authors
The Vanishers
3.09 of 5 stars 3.09 avg rating — 1,360 ratings — published 2012 — 9 editions
The Uses of Enchantment
3.03 of 5 stars 3.03 avg rating — 839 ratings — published 2001 — 12 editions
The Effect of Living Backwards
2.99 of 5 stars 2.99 avg rating — 733 ratings — published 2004 — 10 editions
The Mineral Palace
3.08 of 5 stars 3.08 avg rating — 231 ratings — published 2000 — 9 editions
Read Hard: Five Years of Gr...
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3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2009
The Believer, Issue 88: Mar...
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3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2012
Hotel Andromeda
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3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2003
The Believer, Issue 91: The...
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012
The Believer, Issue 68: Jan...
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4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2010
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012
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“I am simply looking for a companion with whom to spend my days, a companion who will cherish as much as I the stupidity of living in the moment, and spend every dull, amazing second with me.”
Heidi Julavits, The Effect of Living Backwards

“I can't even tell you what else I imagined. I can only humiliate myself to such a degree; at a certain point it becomes humorous, and this story is not meant to be humorous. This story is meant to winch your ribs open and tamper with your heart. This story is meant to make you realize that your chances of happiness in this world are terribly slim if you lack a fine imagination.”
Heidi Julavits, The Effect of Living Backwards

“We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and pointing fingers, rather than bucking up and forging ahead. But what if your childhood was all a big misunderstanding? An elaborate ruse? What does that say about failure? Better yet, what does that say about potential?”
Heidi Julavits, The Effect of Living Backwards

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