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Alan Heathcock

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in Frankfort, Kentucky, The United States

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http://www.alanheathcock.com

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Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Science Fiction

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Cormac McCarthy, Flannery O'Connor, Marguerite Duras, Angela Carter, C ...more

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Alan Heathcock has won a Whiting Award, the GLCA New Writers Award, a National Magazine Award, has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Lannan Foundation, and the Idaho Commission on the Arts. His story collection, VOLT, was a 'Best Book of the Year' selection from numerous newspapers and magazines, including GQ, Publishers Weekly, Salon, and the Chicago Tribune, was named as a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and a finalist for the Barnes and Noble Discover Prize. ...more

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40 Gets Vanity Fair Love

My novel '40' got some love from Vanity Fair. Follow the link and check out the banner where my lovely book is hanging out with Maggie Rogers and Conan O'Brien.

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https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022...

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	Volt 3.89 avg rating — 1,651 ratings — published 2011 — 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
	40 3.40 avg rating — 363 ratings — 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
	The Best American Mystery Stories of the Nineteenth Century (The Best American Series ®) by Otto Penzler (Goodreads Author), Alan Heathcock (Goodreads Author), Mike MacLean (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Short Story America: Volume II by T.D. Johnston (Editor), Alan Heathcock (Goodreads Author), Vanessa Hemingway 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2012	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
	Intrigue by Aaron M. Patterson (Goodreads Author), Vincent Zandri (Goodreads Author), Alan Heathcock (Goodreads Author) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2011 — 3 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
	Crimespree Magazine #44 Nov/Dec by Jon Jordan (Editor), Ruth Jordan (Editor), Trey R. Barker (Goodreads Author) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011	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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“No matter what you say, or how much you talk, someone isn’t really forgiven until you can stand beside them without wanting to slap them in the face.”
― Alan Heathcock, Volt

tags: anger, forgiveness, hate, honesty, letting-go, revenge

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“I wish I could take my brain and put it inside your head,” Winslow said. “Just for a moment. Then you’d know what all I can’t find how to say.”
― Alan Heathcock, Volt

tags: emotional-pain, emotional-wounds, grief, grieving, inarticulate, loss

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“Sometimes I wish I was in the movies...Not to be famous or nothing. I just wish I was made of light. Then nobody’d know me except for what they saw up on that screen. I’d just be light up on the silver screen, and not at all a man.”
― Alan Heathcock, Volt

tags: disassociation, escape, running-away, unhappiness

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tags: disassociation, escape, running-away, unhappiness

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“Grief was a demon of possession. When people talked of time healing wounds, they only meant that over time you become accustomed to that demon inside you, and what at first felt like an invasive presence, alien and nefarious, slowly became integrated into your being, the imp of sorrow crouched within you for the remainder of your days.”
― Alan Heathcock, 40

tags: grief, grief-and-loss, grief-quotes

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