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Michael S.A. Graziano

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Born

in Bridgeport CN, The United States

Website

https://grazianolab.princeton.edu/

Genre

Fiction, Horror, Psychology

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Some have said my writing shows influences of Kafka and Garcia Marquez ...more

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Michael S. A. Graziano, PhD, is a professor of neuroscience and psychology at Princeton University. He is also a composer and occasional ventriloquist. Love is his latest work of fiction published by Leapfrog. Others include The Love Song of Monkey, The Divine Farce, and Death My Own Way. He has also published popular science books: God Soul Mind Brain (Leapfrog Press, 2010), Consciousness and the Social Brain (Oxford University Press, 2013), Rethinking Consciousness (W. W. Norton, 2021), which was a finalist for the Penn-Faulkner award, and most recently, Charlie's Lab (Press 53, 2023). He has written for the Atlantic, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other media outlets. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey with his wife and ...more

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Average rating: 4.1 · 6,845 ratings · 1,184 reviews · 17 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Divine Farce 4.17 avg rating — 4,826 ratings — published 2009 — 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
	Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience 3.87 avg rating — 578 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	Consciousness and the Social Brain 4.13 avg rating — 503 ratings — published 2013 — 13 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 Love Song of Monkey 3.95 avg rating — 243 ratings — published 2008 — 7 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 Spaces Between Us: A Story of Neuroscience, Evolution, and Human Nature 4.28 avg rating — 64 ratings — 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
	God Soul Mind Brain: A Neuroscientist's Reflections on the Spirit World 3.95 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	Death My Own Way 3.57 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2012 — 5 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
	Love 4.81 avg rating — 16 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
	The Intelligent Movement Machine: An Ethological Perspective on the Primate Motor System 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2008 — 8 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
	Five String Quartets 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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Michael Graziano and 1 other person liked George M.'s review of Love: "What I find myself questioning most after finishing Love is whether this is a story about connection… or about the illusion of it. In the earlier chapters, the artist’s world feels open, even in its struggle. But as the relationship progresses, that o" Read more of this review »
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Michael Graziano and 10 other people liked ⊹ Ellie ⊹'s review of Love: " “You see, don’t you, how much I am fascinated by everything you? Even your dead skin cells. House dust, I once read, is mostly the dry outer layer of skin that we shed. You and I, our skin eternally together, intermingled in the grime behind the t" Read more of this review »
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“To the extent that heaven above is isolation, it seems to be hell. To the extent that hell below is a crowd, it apparently is heaven. Maybe we are condemned to an endless nagging sense of discomfort balanced against comfort, satisfaction against the itch to escape.”
― Michael S.A. Graziano, The Divine Farce

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“We depend on each other to lift ourselves up. Suffering is craving is fear is delusion clinging to selfhood, clinging to objects, clinging to the trivia that we think makes us happy. Clinging to superficialities. Clinging to the covering that separates us from each other. Strip off all that delusion, and we take a step forward toward each other and a step toward enlightenment.”
― Michael S.A. Graziano

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“The world is not what it is: the world is what you make it.”
― Michael S.A. Graziano, The Divine Farce

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