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Rita Bullwinkel is the author of Headshot and Belly Up, a story collection that won the Believer Book Award. She is a 2022 recipient of a Whiting Award, the editor of McSweeney's Quarterly, a contributing editor at NOON, and the Picador Guest Professor of Literature at Leipzig University in Germany, where she teaches courses on creative writing, zines, and the uses of invented and foreign languages as tools for world building. ...more

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Average rating: 3.48 · 18,338 ratings · 3,320 reviews · 18 distinct works • Similar authors

	Headshot 3.45 avg rating — 16,713 ratings — published 2024 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Swimming Studies by Leanne Shapton (Goodreads Author), Rita Bullwinkel (Introduction) 3.96 avg rating — 3,020 ratings — published 2012 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Yr Dead by Sam Sax (Goodreads Author), Rita Bullwinkel (editor) 3.81 avg rating — 1,551 ratings — published 2024 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Belly Up: Stories 3.74 avg rating — 1,136 ratings — published 2018 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Die Damentoilette: 22 Liebeserklärungen \| »Geschnatter auf der Damentoilette für immer.« Sophie Passmann by Friederike Schilbach (Editor), Gabriele von Arnim, Jovana Reisinger 3.52 avg rating — 170 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	McSweeney's Issue 53 (McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, #53) by Dave Eggers (Editor), Chelsea Bieker (Goodreads Author), Daniel Gumbiner 4.02 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	McSweeney's Issue 77 (McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, #77) 3.73 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 2025	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	McSweeney's Issue 81 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, #81) by Rita Bullwinkel (Editor), Dave Eggers (founder) 3.79 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2026	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Porthole by Joanna Howard, Rita Bullwinkel (editor) 3.54 avg rating — 41 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Golpe de luz it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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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“Rachel had a theory about other humans: people are the most scared by what makes zero sense to them but that they cannot, no matter how they try, avoid.”
― Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

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“Even when your mother is asking you to do her a favor (be a good girl) it sounds like she is asking you to wear a coat made out of clear plastic. How do words get like that? thinks Rachel. How do words become so gross and synthetic?”
― Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

tags: good-girl

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“But she is also just a child - just a girl waiting to see what her life will be like compared to the lives of the other people she knows.”
― Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

tags: girlhood

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The Paris Express

by Emma Donoghue

4 votes, 30.8%

A Winter in New York

by Josie Silver

3 votes, 23.1%

The Fair Weather Friend

by Jessie Garcia

2 votes, 15.4%

Snow Falling on Cedars

by David Guterson

2 votes, 15.4%

The Fifth Season

by N.K. Jemisin

1 vote, 7.7%

Ninth House

by Leigh Bardugo

1 vote, 7.7%

Hemlock & Silver

by T. Kingfisher

0 votes, 0.0%

What Meets the Eye

by Alex Kenna

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Headshot

by Rita Bullwinkel

0 votes, 0.0%

The Magicians

by Lev Grossman

0 votes, 0.0%

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