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Adam Dalva

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I'm the Senior Fiction Editor for Guernica Magazine, the reviews editor for Words Without Borders, and I serve on the board of the National Book Critics Circle. I teach creative writing at Rutgers University. My writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Tin House, and The Guardian. My graphic novel, OLIVIA TWIST, was published by Dark Horse in 2019. ...more

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	Olivia Twist: Honor Among Thieves by Darin Strauss, Adam Dalva (Goodreads Author), Emma Viecili (Illustrator) 3.22 avg rating — 77 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
	Olivia Twist #1 by Adam Dalva (Goodreads Author), Darin Strauss, Emma Vieceli (Goodreads Author) (Artist) 3.53 avg rating — 38 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
	Olivia Twist #3 by Adam Dalva (Goodreads Author), Darin Strauss, Tula Lotay (Cover Art) 3.88 avg rating — 8 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
	Olivia Twist #2 by Adam Dalva (Goodreads Author), Darin Strauss, Vanesa R. Del Rey (Cover Art) 3.86 avg rating — 7 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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	Granta Em Língua Portuguesa 10: O Outro by Pedro Mexia (Dir.), Gustavo Pacheco (Dir.), Janet Malcolm 3.17 avg rating — 6 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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Adam Dalva rated a book it was amazing Vengeance Is Mine by Marie NDiaye	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
Stark, elliptical, fascinating little book, with echos of SAINT OMER, which NDiaye co-wrote.
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Adam Dalva rated a book it was amazing August Blue by Deborah Levy	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
Ripped through it, and loved every minute. Strange, dreamy, beautiful, and funny - very much the Levy of the writing journals.
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Adam Dalva rated a book it was amazing A Brief History of Living Forever by Jaroslav Kalfar (Goodreads Author)	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
I had the pleasure of launching this novel at Powerhouse books - fascinating, ambitious, and, as with Spaceman of Bohemia, beautifully written
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Adam Dalva rated a book it was amazing Fragments by Heraclitus	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
Impossible to rate this in any tangible way, but it's remarkably prescient ...more
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Adam Dalva rated a book it was amazing Fragments by Heraclitus	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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Adam Dalva rated a book really liked it Early Greek Thinking: The Dawn of Western Philosophy by Martin Heidegger	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
Sometimes fascinating, occasionally troubling, and frustratingly difficult.
May 17, 2023 03:05PM · 9 likes · like · see review
Adam Dalva rated a book really liked it Early Greek Thinking: The Dawn of Western Philosophy by Martin Heidegger	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
Sometimes fascinating, occasionally troubling, and frustratingly difficult.
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Adam Dalva rated a book it was amazing Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad (Goodreads Author)	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
Brilliant book, beautifully written, a bit like DRIVE MY CAR, in Palestine, with Hamlet. What could be better?
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Adam Dalva rated a book really liked it The Storyteller Essays by Walter Benjamin	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
Benjamin is magnificent - these little aphoristic pieces are not my favorites of his work, but they contain some wonderful nuggets of brilliance, and are fascinating as literary criticism.
Jan 08, 2023 05:32AM · 22 likes · like · see review
Adam Dalva rated a book it was amazing How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee (Goodreads Author)	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
I read this preparing for a craft talk, so I really should have been focusing on the 3 pieces most centered on writing autobiographical fiction, but the power of this ranging essay collection is such that I read the whole thing, slowly, savoring ever ...more
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