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Robert Dunn

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Robert Dunn is a writer, teacher, and musician. He has published widely, including work in the New Yorker and an O. Henry Prize story, as well as the musical novels Pink Cadillac (a Book Sense 76 pick), Cutting Time, Soul Cavalcade, Meet the Annas, Look at Flower, and Stations of the Cross.

Dunn has worked for the New Yorker magazine and Sports Illustrated, as well as teaching fiction writing at The New School in New York City. In the 1980s he was Bernard Malamud’s personal assistant.

Lately, Dunn has taken up photography; his photobooks (OWS, Angel Parade, and Meeting Robert Frank) are available at the ICP Bookstore, Dashwood, the Strand, and numerous other art bookstores.

Dunn is married to a film art director and lives in New York Cit
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Robert Dunn A novel called "Savage Joy," the most autobiographical piece I've done, about my first year or two in New York City in my 20s (in the mid-'70s), livin…moreA novel called "Savage Joy," the most autobiographical piece I've done, about my first year or two in New York City in my 20s (in the mid-'70s), living in the East Village, only a few blocks from CBGB's.

My first job back then was at the New Yorker magazine, so I was bridging two worlds: the fancy midtown literary world, and the East Village punk rock world. "Savage Joy" flows between both, with lots of drama, intriguing characters, and personal discoveries. (less)
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Meet the Annas

3.16 avg rating — 263 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions
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Look at Flower

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Pink Cadillac

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions
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Savage Joy

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Stations of the Cross: A Mu...

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Cutting Time

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Soul Cavalcade

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The Youngest World

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We're excited to announce a new transmedia* project:&nbsp...

We're excited to announce a new transmedia* project: The Songs of Dyson Burnette
Our project is a an album of original songs written by the hero of our latest novel, Stations of the Cross. Dyson Burnette, Rock Hall of Fame inductee, ends up in Mexico, where he tries to revive his career by finishing a 40-year-old song, "Stations of the Cross."

Not to give too much away from the book, but he does! Read more of this blog post »
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