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Lori’s 2022 Year in Books
Take a look at Lori’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
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Lori Rader-Day
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The best thing about being a writer is writing. It's also the worst thing about being a writer.
It's also pretty great to meet someone who has read your book.
It's also pretty great to meet someone who has read your book.
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Little Pretty Things
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2015
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The Black Hour
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2014
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The Day I Died
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Death at Greenway
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The Lucky One
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Under a Dark Sky
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The Death of Us
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The Death of Us
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The Death of Us
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Death At Greenway: A Novel
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Death at Greenway is a nominee for the Macavity Award!
A nice surprise to learn that Death at Greenway has been nominated for a Macavity Award, given out by Mystery Readers International/Mystery Readers Journal!
A little trivia for us all: Macavity the Mystery Cat, also called the Hidden Paw, is a fictional character in T. S. Eliot’s 1939 poetry book Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.
So… a mystery award named for a cat? I’m all in. The full list of n
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Lori Rader-Day wants to read 50 books in the 2023 Reading Challenge
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“It doesn’t matter that something you’ve done before worked out well. Your last piece is never going to write your next one for you.”
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“If you lack confidence in setting one word after another and sense that you are stuck in a place from which you will never be set free, if you feel sure that you will never make it and were not cut out to do this, if your prose seems stillborn and you completely lack confidence, you must be a writer.”
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Lori Rader-Day has completed the 2022 Reading Challenge
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completed her goal of reading 50 books for the 2022 Reading Challenge!
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Death at Greenway is an Agatha Award nominee!
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Thank you so much, Ellen!
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Death at Greenway is launched!
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Hope you love the book, Gayla!
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The disappearance of Debra Jean Cole, the girl down the street. I knew her from the school bus. I wrote about this case and how it intersected (and in part inspired) my novel The Lucky One in the PS section at the back of the book.
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The NYTBR likes Death at Greenway! *fans self*
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Won't be in NJ any time soon, sadly... Maybe 2022 will have more travel in it! Hope you enjoy it!!
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“I was still thinking about what he’d said about belief. We are more than the magic we believe in. We are more. It had never occurred to me to be more. My life had been chiseled down to the smallest portion. My own doing. I had only ever made plans to be less, to be nothing more than alive.”
― The Day I Died
― The Day I Died
“Did he not know that there was a lower point, yet, when you had accepted your own fate but found yourself too weak to go through with it? The point at which you understood you had made not a single ripple in the pond, and neither would your loss.”
― Little Pretty Things
― Little Pretty Things
“I was afraid that I could have changed everything, and hadn’t. I was afraid that everything could yet change, or not, and I was the one who had to decide. I was afraid of choices I had let go, of decisions I might never make. I was afraid I had turned down every opportunity to be someone other than who I was now. I was afraid I would never get back to someplace real, someplace on the map that would feel like a place to start. I was afraid of the future. I didn’t think I’d ever thought about the future before, beyond fantasies. Fantasies didn’t require anything from me, but real life, the real future, did. I held the lifejackets against the slight swell of my belly. I had never had a future before.”
― The Day I Died
― The Day I Died
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“I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. The odd thing is most of the things that stop an inexperienced writer are so far from the truth as to be nearly beside the point. When you feel glosbal doubt about your talent, that is your talent. People who have no talent don't have any doubt.”
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“Running a close second [as a writing lesson] was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.”
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“Being in an M.F.A. is like living in a sci-fi biosphere on an alien planet, where everyone shares your obscure visionary notions: namely, that literature matters, that English professors know more than other people, that typing, alone, in a library, is what everyone should be doing on a Friday night. Better to tell strangers that speaking Klingon is what turns you on.”
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“A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.”
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Thanks! Not a textbook, just personal exploration. I LOVE Bird by Bird. Lamott is fantastic. What course are you teaching at RU??
Lori wrote: "IMO, the best instructional book on writing is John Dufresne's The Lie that Tells a Truth. The best inspirational one might be Annie Lamott's Bird by Bird. Looking for a textbook? I think I'll be u..."
IMO, the best instructional book on writing is John Dufresne's The Lie that Tells a Truth. The best inspirational one might be Annie Lamott's Bird by Bird. Looking for a textbook? I think I'll be using the Dufresne book for the class I'm teaching this fall. At RU!
What is the best book on fiction writing you have read?
