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Dorothy Allison
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in The United States
April 11, 1949
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Dorothy Allison isn't a Goodreads Author
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Smart Women and Publishing
(This is an account of remarks I made at AWP in Chicago February 14th, 2009 (Valentine's Day) on the panel on Smart Women and publishing. As is so often the case, I did not actually deliver the talk I had prepared to deliver at AWP—though I drew from that talk in my remarks. I had to cut it by half and reorganize it when time ran short, so some of what I did will be lost forever, but some of it ..
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Bastard Out of Carolina
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1992
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44 editions
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Trash: Stories
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1988
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10 editions
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Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
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1995
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13 editions
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Cavedweller
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1998
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21 editions
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Skin: Talking about Sex, Class and Literature
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1994
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13 editions
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Bastard Out of Carolina / Two or Three Things I Know For Sure
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1995
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2 editions
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The Women Who Hate Me: Poetry, 1980-1990
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1983
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5 editions
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The Writer's Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House
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2009
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Conversations with Dorothy Allison
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2012
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2 editions
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A Reader's Guide to the Works of Dorothy Allison: Cavedweller, Bastard Out of Carolina, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
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2000
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“Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.”
― Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
― Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
“Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.”
― Bastard Out of Carolina
― Bastard Out of Carolina
“The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.”
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Polls
January 2019 New School Poll
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, 288 pages, 1930
True Grit by Charles Portis, 224 pages, 1968
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 647 pages, 1981
Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison, 320 pages, 1992
The Egyptian by Mika Waltari, 503 pages, 1945
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Mystery/Thriller ...: Your first signed book/author signing event? | 64 | 99 | Sep 24, 2009 08:18PM | |
| Challenge: 50 Books: Rosie's 50 in 2009! | 54 | 300 | Jan 04, 2010 07:41AM | |
| Wild Things: YA G...: Books Coming Up Soon - Anyone Read? | 47 | 71 | Sep 14, 2010 09:19AM | |
| Cover to Cover Ch...: Lisa's 144 Books & More | 13 | 85 | Dec 01, 2010 07:27PM | |
| Between the Lines: Books Recently Bought | 248 | 506 | Jul 04, 2011 05:28AM | |
| On the Southern L...: To Kill a Mockingbird: Initial Impressions, June 2012 | 33 | 63 | Jul 16, 2012 06:09AM |
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