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Amelia Gray
Goodreads Author
Born
in Tucson, The United States
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Influences
Joyce Carol Oates, Nell Zink, Joy Williams
Member Since
September 2007
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Threats
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2012
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10 editions
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Gutshot
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2015
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7 editions
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AM/PM
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2009
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5 editions
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Museum of the Weird
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2010
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3 editions
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Isadora
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2017
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6 editions
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The Swan as Metaphor for Love
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On The Predator
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2012
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These Are the Fables
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2013
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The Death of Mother
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Cinquante façons de manger son amant
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The tape on the package was striped with waxed string. David dug his fingernails underneath the perimeter of the tape and clawed at it. He didn’t want to go to the kitchen for a knife, and he spent an extra piece of time examining the entire package to find the loose end that could be pulled up. Inside the package was a Styrofoam carton, sealed with another kind of thick tape. A receipt was atta Read more of this blog post »
The tape on the package was striped with waxed string. David dug his fingernails underneath the perimeter of the tape and clawed at it. He didn’t want to go to the kitchen for a knife, and he spent an extra piece of time examining the entire package to find the loose end that could be pulled up. Inside the package was a Styrofoam carton, sealed with another kind of thick tape. A receipt was atta Read more of this blog post »
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I'm putting together a collection of short stories and finishing a comic novel at the moment. The next work out will probably be individual short stories as I'm able to place them. Or you can check out the video game "Telling Lies" which I worked on
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| A fascinating book. Beyond the pleasure of reading the story of two friends with such strong love for one another, I found the book to be a crystallization of a social and political moment, a story of a decade, not just between these two thoughtful f ...more | |
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| In these absorbing stories, Matsuda animates ancient tales with a humor and resonance that will be thrilling to the modern reader. But she goes beyond even that; she suffuses them with heart, making them her very own. For fans of fabulist fiction, th ...more | |
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| Timely, unflinching, and delving deep into the heart of a conflict that divided LA. This is exactly the kind of literary crime novel you hope for -- one which goes beyond news articles and rote analysis and digs into the heart and experience of the p ...more | |
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| BLACK CARD takes the teenage search for the self through a sharp and surreal map of punk-southern-rap-rock Virginia, drawn and crossed in racial lines and guided by the heart and wit of Chris Terry’s indelible characters. A kickflip classic. | |
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| A fresh and incisive slice of our world on the edge of its inevitable end, LAST DAY is an absorptive and compelling work from a brilliant voice in American fiction. | |
“Tess realized one of the great modern dating sadnesses: everyone is so used to the comforting glow of the computer screen that no one can go so far as to say "good morning" in public without being liquored up.”
― AM/PM
― AM/PM
“Why does the rain make us feel so romantic and strange? Maybe it's the fact that we are unnatural spectators of it, from inside our homes, and it is a reminder that we have the power to live our whole lives like this, if we choose. It's not the smell of fertile ground kicked up by raindrops, or the slick leaves, or the way we must amplify our voices to be heard over this larger presence. It's the power of the rooftop that makes us want to fuck under it.”
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| 2013 Books!: 2013 Book List | 1167 | 411 | Jan 01, 2014 09:34AM | |
| The Next Best Boo...: Dionisia's 2013 Reading List | 20 | 209 | Jan 01, 2014 01:00PM | |
The Seasonal Read...:
Winter Challenge 2013: Completed Tasks (Do Not Delete Posts)
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The Seasonal Read...:
Spring 2015 Completed Tasks - DO NOT DELETE POSTS
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Tournament of Books:
Gutshot: Stories, by Amelia Gray
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22 | 61 | Jan 03, 2016 05:30PM | |
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Tournament of Books:
Sweetland, by Michael Crummey
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64 | 98 | Jan 21, 2016 11:35AM | |
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Tournament of Books:
Round 8: Undermajordomo Minor vs. Gutshot
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27 | 70 | Jan 26, 2016 01:08PM |
“ Let us consider the farmer who makes his straw hat his
sweetheart; or the old woman who makes a floor lamp her son;
or the young woman who has set herself the task of scraping
her shadow off a wall....
Let us consider the old woman who wore smoked cows’
tongues for shoes and walked a meadow gathering cow chips
in her apron; or a mirror grown dark with age that was given
to a blind man who spent his nights looking into it, which
saddened his mother, that her son should be so lost in
vanity....
Let us consider the man who fried roses for his dinner,
whose kitchen smelled like a burning rose garden; or the man
who disguised himself as a moth and ate his overcoat, and for
dessert served himself a chilled fedora.... ”
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sweetheart; or the old woman who makes a floor lamp her son;
or the young woman who has set herself the task of scraping
her shadow off a wall....
Let us consider the old woman who wore smoked cows’
tongues for shoes and walked a meadow gathering cow chips
in her apron; or a mirror grown dark with age that was given
to a blind man who spent his nights looking into it, which
saddened his mother, that her son should be so lost in
vanity....
Let us consider the man who fried roses for his dinner,
whose kitchen smelled like a burning rose garden; or the man
who disguised himself as a moth and ate his overcoat, and for
dessert served himself a chilled fedora.... ”
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“I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”
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