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Angela Lovell

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Angela Lovell is a bestselling author and award-winning playwright, director, screenwriter, podcaster, critic, writing instructor, and storyteller. She's written for MTV, Universal Studios, VICE, The New York Post, Disney-Pixar, Match.com, and many more. She's taken first place at The Moth's NYC storytelling competition and performs her earliest diary entries regularly with Mortified. Angela was a finalist at Literary Death Match, The L Magazine's Literary Upstart, and The New York Press's Sex Columnist Contest. You can hear her as Mark Twain's daughter on the album Mark Twain Words and Music (featuring Clint Eastwood, Garrison Keillor, and Jimmy Buffett).

Angela lives in Spain with exactly the right amount of animal companions. ...more

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Average rating: 3.3 · 345 ratings · 43 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Mouseschawitz - My Summer Job of Concentrated Fun 3.13 avg rating — 271 ratings — published 2011 — 3 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
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	So, When Can I Meet George? 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2011	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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Brawler

by Lauren Groff (Goodreads Author)

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Our Share of Night

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Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

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Angela’s Quotes

“I delight in what I fear.”
― Shirley Jackson

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“Men like women who write, even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.”
― Marguerite Duras

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“My ambition was to live like music.”
― Mary Gaitskill

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“But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.”
― Truman Capote, Music for Chameleons

tags: addiction, alcoholism, confession

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“Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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