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Leslie Stella

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LESLIE STELLA is the author of the YA novel, Permanent Record (March 2013, Skyscape), and three previous novels of contemporary adult fiction, Unimaginable Zero Summer, The Easy Hour, and Fat Bald Jeff. She was a founding editor of the Chicago-based politics and satire magazine Lumpen, and her work has been published in The Mississippi Review, The Adirondack Review, Bust, Easy Listener, and anthologized in The Book of Zines: Readings from the Fringe (edited by Playboy’s Chip Rowe), a collection of essays and articles from the obsessive, frequently bizarre world of zines. Leslie is a Pushcart Prize in short fiction nominee.

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It’s been a minute! I’m still alive and apparently so are you, which is perfect for the first day of spring. I was asked to share a book recommendation list by Shepherd.com, with my choice of theme, and boy do I love a good theme. I chose the Best Books Set in the World of […]

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Average rating: 3.6 · 574 ratings · 99 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Permanent Record 3.77 avg rating — 260 ratings — published 2013 — 12 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
	Fat Bald Jeff: A Novel 3.65 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 2001 — 4 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 Easy Hour: A Novel of Leisure 3.22 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 2003 — 4 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
	Unimaginable Zero Summer: A Novel 3.47 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2005 — 6 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
	Moteslaver 3.50 avg rating — 4 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
	The Easy Hour: A Novel of Leisure 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2007	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
	Permanent Record Paperback August 19, 2014 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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“But I am clinically depressed and have an anxiety disorder, which interferes with things like studying and learning and breathing and living. He thinks it’s something I can just turn off and on with willpower.”
― Leslie Stella, Permanent Record

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“You know your family’s got problems when the hippies with the stoned dog are worried about you.”
― Leslie Stella, Permanent Record

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“up. “The thing you have to understand about people,” he says, “is that most of them suck, and you don’t want to be like them anyway.”
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