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Marc Anthony Richardson

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Marc Anthony Richardson is an artist and novelist from Philadelphia. Year of the Rat, a work of autofiction, won the American Book Award and the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize. Messiahs, a speculative novel, was a fiction finalist for the Big Other Book Award. The Serpent Will Eat Whatever is in the Belly of the Beast (forthcoming from Deep Vellum/Dalkey Archive Press) received a Creative Capital Award, a Sachs Program Grant for Arts Innovation from UPenn, an Andrew W. Mellon Scholar-in-Residence from Rhodes University in South Africa, an Art Omi residency, and an Artistic Practitioner Fellowship from the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University. He was also the recipient of a PEN America grant, a ...more

Average rating: 4.18 · 28 ratings · 15 reviews · 2 distinct works
Year of the Rat

4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions
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Messiahs

4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions
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“For I will memorize you. Like slaughtered ox meat I will see every piece of you hooked and splayed on the back of my lids.”
Marc Anthony Richardson, Year of the Rat

“because after a week without creation—the antithesis of genesis—comes a nightfall of alcohol intake, of cavortingfightingfornicating and other fundamental merriments, so in the scraped-up face of dawn I take to shakes and shivers and cries into an enemy pillow, growing mossy with hate.”
Marc Anthony Richardson, Year of the Rat

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