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Susan Rivers

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Susan Rivers began her writing career as a playwright, receiving the Julie Harris Playwriting Award and the New York Drama League Award, and working as an NEA Writer-in-Residence in San Francisco.

Her focus shifted to fiction with a move to the Carolinas in 1995. Rivers' debut novel, The Second Mrs. Hockaday, was published by Algonquin Books in 2017. It was a People Magazine "Best New Books Pick" and a Woman's Day "Editor's Desk Pick" in 2017, as well as IndieNext, Library Reads and Winter OKRA Picks, and was a Women's National Book Association Great Group Reads 2018 Selection. The novel was a finalist for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize 2017 and the Southern Book Prize 2018.

The author lives and writes in upstate South Carolina. ...more

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Sacred Objects: When It Comes To Message, They Often Do the Heavy Lifting

Almost everyone is familiar with O’Henry’s classic short story, The Gift of the Magi, published in 1905. This is the story of a young married couple who have little money. With Christmas approaching, Della, the wife, hopes to buy her husband, Jim, a new watch chain for the gold pocket-watch he inherited from his father. However, after shopping all day she can find nothing that she can afford. At t Read more of this blog post »

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“Our enemy is [. . .] and all people like him, who never question their motives or doubt their desires. They are put on this earth to cause misery, because what they take so freely for themselves comes always at great cost to others.”
― Susan Rivers, The Second Mrs. Hockaday

tags: enemies, narcissism, selfishness

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“We are no longer blessed with innocence, nor do we deserve to be. Paradise may have been lost, but paradise is a bad bargain. It costs too much. It conceals serpents, and is littered with graves.”
― Susan Rivers

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“(How Southern I am, in that respect: still fighting my war when the battles have been lost.)”
― Susan Rivers, The Second Mrs. Hockaday

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What shall we read in June, 2019? - Books published Post-1980

Chiefs by Stuart Woods

10 votes 43.5%

My Old True Love by Sheila Kay Adams

9 votes 39.1%

The Second Mrs. Hockaday by Susan Rivers

2 votes 8.7%

Haylow by Gray Stewart

1 vote 4.3%

Oral History by Lee Smith

1 vote 4.3%

Promise by Minrose Gwin

0 votes 0.0%

23 total votes

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