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Alexander Yates grew up in Haiti, Mexico and Bolivia. He graduated high school in the Philippines, where he later returned to work as a contractor in the US Embassy. He holds an MFA from Syracuse University, where he edited the literary journal Salt Hill and won Joyce Carol Oates awards in fiction and poetry. His fiction and reviews have appeared in Salon, American Fiction, Fivechapters.com and the Kenyon Review Online. He currently lives in Vietnam.

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	How We Became Wicked 4.25 avg rating — 1,052 ratings — published 2019 — 9 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
	Moondogs by Alexander Yates (Goodreads Author), Michael J. Windsor (Cover Design) 3.68 avg rating — 419 ratings — published 2011 — 10 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 Winter Place 3.52 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 2015 — 11 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
	American Fiction, Volume 11: The Best Previously Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Authors by Kristen J. Tsetsi (Goodreads Author), Bayard Godsave (Editor), Bruce Pratt (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2010	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
	Valentine by Alexander Yates (Goodreads Author), Halimah Marcus (Introduction) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013	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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Alexander Yates and 1 other person liked Eliza Williams's review of How We Became Wicked: "THAT WAS CRAZY"
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So funny. So smart, and joke-dense, and new.
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Alexander Yates liked Anne W's review of How We Became Wicked: "I read this years ago and still regularly come back and reread it. It's so wonderfully creepy, and I won't spoil the plot twist, but WOW, it's a hell of a plot twist!!!! It has characters you want to root for, a mystery you want to solve, and all in " Read more of this review »
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Feels at times hardboiled, and noir-adjacent. A propulsive read about at an insular community of faith, out of place and entirely at home in central Ohio. I went into this free of expectations, and was pleased with where I ended up.
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Alexander Yates and 1 other person liked Anna Mick's review of How We Became Wicked: "A book about a pandemic-turned-apocalypse written just before our own global pandemic seems very timely, but don't let the timing fool you; this book is so different from many of the other pandemic-centric books I've read over the years I'm surprised" Read more of this review »
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Just because something is intentional doesn't necessarily mean it's worth doing. I felt that, at turns, while reading the endnotes that seem designed to interrupt readerly momentum, and operate without any apparent guiding rationale (story/characteri ...more
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Parts of this are so so so prescient. Other parts age so so so badly. Really enjoyed this, but there are definitely parts where you gotta squint.
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Yes yes, I know this is another Ishiguro book about self-denying devotion and service, in a cold but neatly appointed world that is decaying around the edges. But he writes them so well. This + Never Let Me Go + Remains of the Day are three studies o ...more
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“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”
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