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Alexander Maksik

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http://www.goodreads.com/AlexanderMaksik

born

November 08, 1972 in Los Angeles, The United States

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male

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http://www.alexandermaksik.com

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Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction

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November 2010

About this author

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Alexander Maksik’s stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Harper’s, Tin House, Salon, Harvard Review, The New York Times Magazine and Narrative Magazine, among others. You Deserve Nothing, his first novel, was published in 2011 by Europa Editions (US) and John Murray Publishers/Hachette (UK). Subsequent translations will appear in Italy, Spain, Germany, Russia, Korea, The Netherlands and France.

A Marker to Measure Drift, his second novel, will be published next year by Knopf.

He’s the recipient of a Truman Capote fellowship, a Teaching/Writing fellowship and a Provost’s Postgraduate Writing fellowship from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

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Average rating: 3.69 · 889 ratings · 196 reviews · 1 distinct work

You Deserve Nothing

3.68 avg rating — 884 ratings — published 2011 — 12 editions

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Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

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Alexander Maksik is currently reading: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens	My rating:
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Alexander Maksik gave to: Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey	My rating:
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Alexander Maksik gave to: Stoner by John Williams read in March, 2012	My rating:
One of the best novels I've read in my life.
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Alexander Maksik made a comment on Erika Jo 's review of Thirty One Letters and Thirteen Dreams "That was probably mine. "
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