Stefan Merrill Block





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Stefan Merrill Block

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Born in 1982, Stefan Merrill Block grew up in Texas. His first novel, The Story of Forgetting, won Best First Fiction at the Rome International Festival of Literature, the 2008 Merck Serono Literature Prize and the 2009 Fiction Award from The Writers’ League of Texas. The Story of Forgetting was also a finalist for the debut fiction awards from IndieBound, Salon du Livre and The Center for Fiction. The Storm at the Door is his second novel. He lives in Brooklyn.


Average rating: 3.51 · 1,333 ratings · 399 reviews · 4 distinct works
The Story of Forgetting
3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 1,054 ratings — published 2008 — 24 editions
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The Storm at the Door
3.07 of 5 stars 3.07 avg rating — 274 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions
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Aufziehendes Gewitter
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012
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Een geschiedenis van vergeten
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008
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date: August 19, 2011 07:00PM
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The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall
The Electric Michelangelo
by Sarah Hall
read in April, 2009
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Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
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Lost Puritan by Paul L. Mariani
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Fascinating and thorough. Perhaps slightly too thorough.
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The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
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Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
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The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
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The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
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More of Stefan's books…
“...that the basic transaction of life itself was a sad, endless amalgam of public endurance and private indulgence.”
Stefan Merrill Block, The Story of Forgetting

“Sometimes, the world suddenly seemed equal to what I required of it. But, otherwise, I was under the world, a cockroach-man scuttling beneath stones in filth, scrambling from the light. Or else I was above the world, as certain and mighty as a fundamental force, as electricity. The sadness of always being at a distance from things, above or else beneath.”
Stefan Merrill Block, The Storm at the Door

“Frederick knows better than to believe, as his wife sometimes claims to, that all things happen for a reason. Things happen; it is up to us to invent for them a purpose.”
Stefan Merrill Block, The Storm at the Door

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