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R.L.’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at R.L.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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R.L. Maizes
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August 2012
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We Love Anderson Cooper
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2019
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Other People's Pets
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2020
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A Cat Called Grievous
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A Complete Fiction
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Tattoo
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New Book: A Complete Fiction
I have a new book coming out this fall:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Here's what Bethany Ball, author of What To Do About the Solomons and The Pessimists, had to say about it:
“Fast-paced and tightly wrought, R.L. Maizes’ new novel, A Complete Fiction, goes right to the mercenary hearts of two writers and with humor and pathos manages to skewer the publishing industry and the pressure co Read more of this blog post »
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Here's what Bethany Ball, author of What To Do About the Solomons and The Pessimists, had to say about it:
“Fast-paced and tightly wrought, R.L. Maizes’ new novel, A Complete Fiction, goes right to the mercenary hearts of two writers and with humor and pathos manages to skewer the publishing industry and the pressure co Read more of this blog post »
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"R.L. Maizes is so skillful in developing characters who are so humanly imperfect you can’t help but love them. And this novel sets them in a wild metaphysical setting all about the modern business of book writing, publishing, and social media. Delici"
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"Every now and then, a book comes along that doesn’t just entertain—it pokes at the edges of our comfort zones and asks the hard questions. A Complete Fiction is one of those reads. I picked it up expecting a juicy publishing scandal, and what I got w"
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"Alternately hilarious and horrifying, A COMPLETE FICTION throws a knowing eye at the publishing industry in an insightful manner that reminded me of R. F. Kuang's YELLOWFACE, only with far more sympathetic characters. Just when you think things can't"
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R.L. Maizes
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"I was lucky enough to read an advance copy of this marvelous, layered, truly funny novel. Maizes is a seamless writer, and her tone is perfect. I was carried away by the characters, whose voices were familiar yet fresh and distinct. If you haven’t re"
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| Loved it. Listened to the audio and Joanne Froggatt (of Downton Abbey) was amazing. Highly recommend. | |
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| What a wild ride! So entertaining, so twisty. Not my usual genre and I loved it. | |
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| What a wild ride! So entertaining, so twisty. Not my usual genre and I loved it. | |
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“Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another; rather, it teaches us to abide with the fact that, in their own way, all things are true, and helps us, in the face of this terrifying knowledge, continually push ourselves in the direction of Open the Hell Up.”
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“A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.”
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“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”
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“The main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you can have all the time you want for reading.”
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“Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.”
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