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Alex Shakar

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Alex Shakar


Born
in Brooklyn, New York, The United States
July 07, 1968

Website

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Short Stories


Shakar was born in and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Yale University in 1990. He was a Michener Fellow at the University of Texas. Shakar attended the University of Illinois and received his Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing.

In 1996, Shakar won the National Fiction Competition and received Pick of the Year from the Independent Presses for City in Love. The Savage Girl was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book and a Book Sense Pick in 2001.

He currently resides in Chicago, Illinois and teaches fiction writing at the University of Illinois.

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Average rating: 3.49 · 1,014 ratings · 179 reviews · 9 distinct works • Similar authors
Luminarium
3.46 avg rating — 844 ratings — published 2011 — 12 editions
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City in Love
3.77 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions
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Ploughshares, Volume 41, Is...
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Der Letzte Schrei
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“She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.”
― Alex Shakar, Luminarium
tags: deep-thoughts, happiness, shallowness, stupidity
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“Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.”
― Alex Shakar, The Savage Girl
tags: age, maturity
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“Cats are there to be indulged. That's their function: to receive the love we never fully gave our parents. Not like dogs. Dogs are there to give us the love and devotion our children will never fully give us.”
― Alex Shakar, The Savage Girl
tags: animals
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