Gayle Brandeis

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Gayle Brandeis

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Gayle Brandeis is the author, most recently, of Drawing Breath: Essays on Writing, the Body, and Loss (Overcup Press). Earlier books include the memoir The Art of Misdiagnosis (Beacon Press), the novel in poems, Many Restless Concerns (Black Lawrence Press), shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson Award, the poetry collection The Selfless Bliss of the Body (Finishing Line Press), the craft book Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write (HarperOne) and the novels The Book of Dead Birds (HarperCollins), which won the PEN/Bellwether Prize, Self Storage (Ballantine), Delta Girls (Ballantine), and My Life with the Lincolns (Henry Holt BYR), chosen as a state-wide read in Wisconsin.

Gayle's essays, poetry, and short fiction have been widely
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Average rating: 3.72 · 2,769 ratings · 536 reviews · 23 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Book of Dead Birds

3.74 avg rating — 625 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions
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Self Storage

3.43 avg rating — 512 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions
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The Art of Misdiagnosis: Su...

3.91 avg rating — 407 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions
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Delta Girls

3.48 avg rating — 264 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
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My Life with the Lincolns

3.25 avg rating — 248 ratings — published 2010 — 12 editions
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Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspir...

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Many Restless Concerns: The...

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Drawing Breath: Essays on W...

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The Book Of Live Wires

4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2011
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The Selfless Bliss of the Body

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“Where otherwise words were, flow discoveries, freed all surprised out of the fruit’s flesh. RAINER MARIA RILKE”
Gayle Brandeis, Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write – A Sumptuous Guide to Getting Your Creative Juices Flowing

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62741 Q&A with Gayle Brandeis — 3 members — last activity Jan 27, 2012 08:56PM
Gayle Brandeis, the author of the Bellwether Prize-winning novel The Book of Dead Birds, and its sequel, the recently released The Book of Live Wires ...more
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from the classical literature of persia to modern iranian fiction and poetry all the way to present-day iranian-american fiction, poetry, and memoir
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Gayle Brandeis Gretchen wrote: "Gayle think you are fabulous! Hope I can continue to read your work for the rest of my life!!!" Aw, Gretchen, thank you so much!!! This made my day. I will definitely keep writing for you. :)


Gretchen Gayle think you are fabulous! Hope I can continue to read your work for the rest of my life!!!


Jeremy I want to apologize for the all the recommendations from me today. I wanted to share the Stoker Award news, and I only pressed the send button once--I'm not sure what happened.

Argh...this is terrible...

Again, I'm very sorry.

-Jeremy


Jeremy Thanks for the friendship, Gayle!

Here’s wishing you a nifty New Year filled with noiseless noses, neato nicknames, noble Nebraskans, gnarly narcoleptic nebulas, and novel novels about nut-eating narwhals and novercaphobic gnats.

I was wondering if you'd do me the honor of reading about my debut novel, Vacation. Your support would mean a lot to me. If you'd like to do me this honor, feel free to click here:
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-Jeremy :)

Peter: Oh my god, Brian, there's a message in my Alphabits. It says, 'Oooooo.'
Brian: Peter, those are Cheerios.


message 2: by Daniel (last edited Aug 25, 2016 12:39PM)

Daniel Gayle, I've written several books about the Irish-English conflict that show neither side gets what they really want. I found later that one of these books may have even contributed to the conflict because it showed how easy it was for illegals to get tombstone birth certificates from the English government. So it never works out exactly the way you want.


message 1: by Susan (last edited Aug 25, 2016 11:23AM)

Susan Henderson Hi Gayle!


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