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Meghan O’Rourke is the author The Long Goodbye: A Memoir (Riverhead Books, 2011), and the poetry collections Once (W. W. Norton, 2011) and Halflife (W. W. Norton, 2007). A former literary editor of Slate and poetry editor of The Paris Review, she has published essays and poems in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Best American Poetry, and other venues. She is the recipient of the 2008 May Sarton Award for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She splits her time between Brooklyn, NY, where she grew up, and Marfa, TX.

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Average rating: 3.78 · 1,221 ratings · 272 reviews · 5 distinct works · Similar authors

	The Long Goodbye: A Memoir 3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 1,045 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Halflife: Poems 3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Once: Poems 3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best of Slate: A 10th Anniversary Anthology by David Plotz (Editor), Michael E. Kinsley (Foreword by), Paul Krugman (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2006	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Happy Campers: A Slate Anthology of Tales From Summer Camp by Emily Bazelon (Goodreads Author), Seth Stevenson (Contributor), Liesl Schillinger (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Relationships take up energy; letting go of them, psychiatrists theorize, entails mental work. When you lose someone you were close to, you have to reassess your picture of the world and your place in it. The more your identity was wrapped up with the deceased, the more difficult the loss.”
― Meghan O'Rourke

tags: death, grief, identity, loss, mourning, relationships

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“Sometimes you don't even know what you want until you find out you can't have it.”
― Meghan O'Rourke, The Long Goodbye: A Memoir

tags: desire, need, want

44 people liked it

“What had happened still seemed implausible. A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted belief.”
― Meghan O'Rourke

tags: belief, death, loss

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