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Karen Elizabeth Gordon, who is most well-known for her comic language handbooks The New Well-Tempered Sentence and The Deluxe Transitive Vampire, is also author to a collection of short stories published by Dalkey Archive Press. The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales was hailed by many critics as Rabelaisian in its humor.

Gordon resides alternately in Berkeley, California and Paris.

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Average rating: 4.02 · 4,913 ratings · 474 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed 4.09 avg rating — 1,232 ratings — published 1984	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
	Paris Out of Hand: A Wayward Guide by Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Barbara Hodgson, Nick Bantock 3.94 avg rating — 603 ratings — published 1996	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
	The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed 4.13 avg rating — 670 ratings — published 1983 — 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
	The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexicon 4.07 avg rating — 195 ratings — published 1997 — 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
	Torn Wings and Faux Pas: A Flashbook of Style, a Beastly Guide Through the Writer's Labyrinth by Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Rikki Ducornet (Illustrator) 4.09 avg rating — 100 ratings — 4 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
	The Transitive Vampire: A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the Doomed 4.07 avg rating — 188 ratings — published 1984 — 8 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
	Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness: A Dictionarrative 4.03 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1998	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
	The Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed 4.23 avg rating — 79 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
	The Ravenous Muse: A Table of Dark and Comic Contents, a Bacchanal of Books by Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Dugald Stermer (Illustrator), Fearn Cutler (Designed by) 3.79 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1996 — 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
	Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales 3.95 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1996	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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“All phone calls are obscene.”
― Karen Elizabeth Gordon

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“She wrapped herself up in an enigma; there was no other way to keep warm.”
― Karen Elizabeth Gordon, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed

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“Not only were we naked, crazed, and starving (and far from our warm little homes); we were without any good books as well.”
― Karen Elizabeth Gordon, The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed

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