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Dorothy Allison
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April 11, 1949
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(This is an account of remarks I made at AWP in Chicago February 14th, 2009 (Valentine's Day) on the panel on Smart Women and publishing. As is so often the case, I did not actually deliver the talk I had prepared to deliver at AWP—though I drew from that talk in my remarks. I had to cut it by half and reorganize it when time ran short, so some of what I did will be lost forever, but some of it...
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Bastard Out of Carolina
— published 1992 — 23 editions |
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Trash
— published 1988 — 9 editions |
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Cavedweller
— published 1998 — 12 editions |
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Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
— published 1995 — 8 editions |
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Skin: Talking about Sex, Class and Literature
— published 1994 — 3 editions |
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Bastard Out of Carolina / Two or Three Things I Know For Sure
— published 1995 — 2 editions |
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The Women Who Hate Me Poetry 1980-1990
— published 1983 — 4 editions |
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A Reader's Guide to the Works of Dorothy Allison: Cavedweller, Bastard Out of Carolina, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
— published 2000 |
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Conversations with Dorothy Allison
by Dorothy Allison, Mae Miller Claxton — published 2012 |
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Dorothy Allison: A Psychic Story
by Dorothy Allison, Scott Jacobson — published 1980 |
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“Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.”
― Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
― Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
“Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.”
― Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina
― Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina
“The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.”
― Dorothy Allison
― Dorothy Allison
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| Between the Lines: Books Recently Bought | 248 | 490 | Jul 04, 2011 05:28am |
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