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Al’s 2025 Year in Books
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Sabrina's Window
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2012
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8 editions
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The Possibility of Snow
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2015
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Precarious: Stories of Love, Sex, and Misunderstanding
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2010
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7 editions
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Then We'd Be Happy
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Combustible
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Me and Not Me
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Together: Three Short Novels
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Remembering My Sister Irma
Irma taught me how to do the Twist in the kitchen of our house on Satsop Street in Shelton.
She used to sunbathe on the roof of that house with Annemarie by climbing out their bedroom window.Irma once tried to force me to eat artichokes when I was a child but finally relented.
I believe she was the first person I ever played tennis with, at Kneeland Park in Shelton (though it could have been Ann
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"i actually don't know if i've ever been so enraged by a book. lili anolik loves eve babitz. which i know because she says so THROUGHOUT the book, and wrote about her previously. so, i just don't understand why she couldn't have just written another e"
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"Wildly off putting writing. Characterizes Didion and Babitz as being soulmates/rivals/literary counterparts, but mostly just fetishistically idolizes Babitz as being cool and having real cred. Meanwhile Didion is a cold voyeur who steals material and"
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"a bit mean. i wasn’t inclined to “side” with joan didion but this was ridiculously snarky at times.
at its best it was fun, at its worst it was just badly written, slightly boring gossip " |
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"Saved the best of this series of goodreads rants for last.
One star, obviously. Lili Anolik if you're reading this, I know you see yourself as personally responsible for the 2010s Eve Babitz repub after calling her house smelly, but I just want you t" Read more of this review » |
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Interesting and irritating in equal measure. The author, who idolizes Babitz, nevertheless manages to portray her as a lazy self-centered slob who expected others to pay her way. |
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Interesting and irritating in equal measure. The author, who idolizes Babitz, nevertheless manages to portray her as a lazy self-centered slob who expected others to pay her way. |
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“The desert is full of things you can’t hold on to — light and heat and sand that slips through your fingers like friendships you once had.”
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“Entwine your pulled-up roots with mine. We'll turn ourselves into a tumbleweed and ride the wind wherever it takes us.”
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“They lived in the high desert, a sort of tumbleweed heaven, an imperfect paradise somewhere south of bliss.”
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“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
― The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations
“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
― Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 2nd Series
― Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews, 2nd Series
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Apr 24, 2015 11:24AM
THE WAIT IS OVER: Copies of my new novel appear to be shipping now (one week early) in your choice of hardback or paperback.
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One year ago today, my first novel made its official debut in bookstores. To everyone who has read Sabrina's Window, thank you. Especially those of you who wrote glowing reviews. If you haven't read it, what are you waiting for?
It was a truly seminal book for me.By the way, I was born in your neck of the woods. Shelton, to be exact.
