Stacey May Fowles
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Toronto
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Literature & Fiction, Women & Gender Studies
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August 2008
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Stacey May Fowles' writing has appeared in various online and print magazines, including Kiss Machine, the Absinthe Literary Review, Fireweed, and subTERRAIN. Her work has been widely anthologized in books including Nobody Passes: Rejecting The Rules of Gender and Conformity, First Person Queer, Yes Means Yes, and I.V. Lounge Nights. Her first novel, Be Good, was published with Tightrope Books in 2007, and This Magazine called it "probably the most finely realized small press novel to come out of Canada in the last year." Fowles recently adapted Fear of Fighting into a stage play as part of Nightwood Theatre's Write From The Hip! program for emerging female playwrights. She currently lives in Toronto where she is the publisher of ...more
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Be Good by Stacey May Fowles (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.64 — 14 ratings — published 2007 |
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Fear of Fighting by Stacey May Fowles (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published 2008 |
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She's Shameless: Women write about growing up, rocking out and fighting back by Stacey May Fowles (Goodreads author), Megan Griffith-Greene avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009 |
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (Paperback) by Joan Didion bookshelves: currently-reading |
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"Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having,has a price." — Joan Didion | |
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"Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself." — Joan Didion | |
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"I only had sex with her because I'm in love with you. " — Bret Easton Ellis | |
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Lunar Park (Paperback) by Bret Easton Ellis |
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Water from the Sun: Discovering Japan (Paperback) by Bret Easton Ellis |
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Emily Valentine Poems, The (Paperback) by Zoe Whittall (Goodreads author) |
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Sexing the Maple: A Canadian Sourcebook (Paperback) by Richard Cavell |
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"And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."
— Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country)
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."
— Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country)
"If we eliminate the pressure to pass, what delicious and devastating opportunities for transformation might we create?"
— Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity)
— Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity)
"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."
— Joan Didion
— Joan Didion
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"And it struck me then, that I liked Sean because he looked, well, slutty. A boy who had been around. A boy who couldn't remember if he was Catholic or not."
— Bret Easton Ellis (The Rules of Attraction)
— Bret Easton Ellis (The Rules of Attraction)
"I only had sex with her because I'm in love with you. "
— Bret Easton Ellis (The Rules of Attraction)
— Bret Easton Ellis (The Rules of Attraction)
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