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Alexander Maksik

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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.


Average rating: 3.69 · 889 ratings · 196 reviews · 1 distinct work
You Deserve Nothing
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 884 ratings — published 2011 — 12 editions
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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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How We Decide
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Stoner
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To the End of the Land by David Grossman
To the End of the Land
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Setting Free the Bears
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The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller
The Colossus of Maroussi
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“Everything can change, but only with abandon.”
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“Cowards spend their lives alone. Either with people who can't hurt them, or with no one at all.”
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“Anyone you can fool isn't worth loving.”
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