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Karla Huebner

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Karla Huebner's short fiction and articles have appeared in many places over the years. Her novel In Search of the Magic Theater (Regal House, 2022) won a CIBA Mark Twain first prize and her collection Heartwood was a 2020 Raz-Shumaker prize finalist. Her monograph Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020) won the Czechoslovak Studies Association book award.

She has lived on a boat and worked in factories, offices, theater, publishing, oil refineries, private investigation, and adolescent drug rehab; she eventually became a professor emerita of Art History specializing in Czech modernism.
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Mark Twain Award Winner

I'm way behind on blogging, but last night I got word that In Search of the Magic Theater has won first place in the 2022 CIBA Mark Twain contest! This award is "for the best books featuring satire, humor, political ideology, parody, fantasy, and allegory or fable."

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This is a mystery that revolves around a Cleveland suburb's high school and school board/local politics--a suburb full of upwardly mobile families that tend to value money and status more than integrity or education. The somewhat unlikely hero and pr ...more
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"Not sure I've seen the Magic Theater trope used since Hermann Hesse. Huebner does a good job of reviving this as a transformative device. The story revolves around two women mainly, with the men mostly as background; as such, it is the women who grow" Read more of this review »
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Virginia Woolf
“Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

Albert Einstein
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
― Albert Einstein

The Economist
“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much other fiction. By contrast, the audience for an obscure novel is largely composed of people who read a lot. That means the least popular books are judged by people who have the highest standards, while the most popular are judged by people who literally do not know any better. An American who read just one book this year was disproportionately likely to have read ‘The Lost Symbol’, by Dan Brown. He almost certainly liked it.”
― The Economist

Amanda Filipacchi
“In my work, I see a lot of women who suffer from low self-esteem. They think they’re unattractive, but the way society today—” “I don’t think I’m unattractive,” she says. “That’s good. That’s great. It’s not something women are always aware of on a conscious level, though. So, I would like you to be open-minded to the possibility that perhaps, deep down, you might be feeling unattractive without being aware of it. And if that’s the case, you might feel there’s no point in even trying to look better.” “Yeah but, no. I don’t think I’m unattractive. And I don’t think it subconsciously either.”
― Amanda Filipacchi, The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty

Vicki Baum
“There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them!”
― Vicki Baum, Ballerina

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