Dana Spiotta





Dana Spiotta

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Scribner published Dana Spiotta’s first novel, Lightning Field, in 2001. The New York Times called it “the debut of a wonderfully gifted writer with an uncanny feel for the absurdities and sadnesses of contemporary life, and an unerring ear for how people talk and try to cope today.” It was a New York Times Notable Book of the year, and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the West.

Her second novel, Eat the Document, was published in 2006 by Scribner. It was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award and a recipient of the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Michiko Kakutani wrote in her review in The New York Times that Eat The Document was “stunning” and described it as “a book that possesses the staccat...more


Average rating: 3.37 · 1,802 ratings · 400 reviews · 3 distinct works
Eat the Document
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 888 ratings — published 2006 — 9 editions
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Stone Arabia: A Novel
3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 795 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions
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Lightning Field
2.97 of 5 stars 2.97 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 2001 — 7 editions
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“The issue isn't, Am I good enough? No. The issue is, Do I not have any other choice? Will and desire don't matter. Ability doesn't matter. Need is the only thing that matters.”
Dana Spiotta, Stone Arabia: A Novel

“Incidentally, if you have never stalked someone close to you, I highly recommend it. Check out how it tranforms them. How other they become, and how infinitely necessary and justified the stalking becomes when you realize how little you know about them, how mysterious every aspect of them seems with an at a distance but close examiniation.”
Dana Spiotta, Eat the Document

“Do you need an audience to create work, or does not having an audience liberate you and make you a truer artist?”
Dana Spiotta, Stone Arabia: A Novel



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