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Heidi Julavits

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Portland, Maine, The United States

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Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

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Heidi Suzanne Julavits is an American author and co-editor of The Believer magazine. She has been published in The Best Creative Nonfiction Vol. 2, Esquire, Story, Zoetrope All-Story, and McSweeney's Quarterly. Her novels include The Mineral Palace (2000), The Effect of Living Backwards (2003) and The Uses of Enchantment (2006) and The Vanishers (2012).

She was born and grew up in Portland, Maine, before attending Dartmouth College. She later went on to earn an MFA from Columbia University.

She wrote the article "Rejoice! Believe! Be Strong and Read Hard!" (subtitled: "A Call For A New Era Of Experimentation, and a Book Culture That Will Support It") in the debut issue of The Believer, a publication which attempts to avoid snarkiness and "giv ...more

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Average rating: 3.5 · 14,896 ratings · 2,365 reviews · 118 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Folded Clock: A Diary 3.70 avg rating — 3,798 ratings — published 2015	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 Vanishers 3.13 avg rating — 3,320 ratings — published 2012 — 17 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 Uses of Enchantment 3.11 avg rating — 1,324 ratings — published 2001 — 22 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 Effect of Living Backwards 3.07 avg rating — 1,084 ratings — published 2003 — 15 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
	Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years 3.75 avg rating — 393 ratings — published 2023 — 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
	The Mineral Palace 3.18 avg rating — 446 ratings — published 2000 — 25 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
	Read Hard: Five Years of Great Writing from the Believer by Heidi Julavits (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ed Park (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Vendela Vida (Editor) 3.82 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 2009	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
	Read Harder by Heidi Julavits (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ed Park (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.60 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2014 — 2 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 Believer, Issue 112 by Heidi Julavits (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Vendela Vida (Editor), Andrew Leland (Editor) 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2014 — 2 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 Believer, Issue 91: The Music Issue by Heidi Julavits (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Andrew Leland (Editor), Vendela Vida (Editor) 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2012 — 2 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

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“I am simply looking for a companion with whom to spend my days, a companion who will cherish as much as I the stupidity of living in the moment, and spend every dull, amazing second with me.”
― Heidi Julavits, The Effect of Living Backwards

tags: love, mortality

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“I can't even tell you what else I imagined. I can only humiliate myself to such a degree; at a certain point it becomes humorous, and this story is not meant to be humorous. This story is meant to winch your ribs open and tamper with your heart. This story is meant to make you realize that your chances of happiness in this world are terribly slim if you lack a fine imagination.”
― Heidi Julavits, The Effect of Living Backwards

tags: imagination, love, sadness

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“I've always said that you were too smart to have a profession. Smart people are hopeless in the face of anything actual. They are terrible cooks. They cannot dress themselves. They are children who need guidance and protecting.”
― Heidi Julavits, The Effect of Living Backwards

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What to read for May 2012?

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet/Jamie Ford

8 votes, 38.1%

The Imperfectionists/Tom Rachman

5 votes, 23.8%

The Curious Incident of the Dog/ in the Night-Time Mark Haddon

4 votes, 19.0%

The Vanishers: A Novel Heidi Julavits

4 votes, 19.0%

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