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Christine Sneed

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Christine Sneed's fifth book, Please Be Advised: A Novel in Memos, was published in October 2022, along with a short fiction anthology she edited, Love in the Time of Time's Up. Her seventh book and third story collection, Direct Sunlight: Stories, was published in June 2023.

Her other works of fiction include The Virginity of Famous Men, which was a finalist for the 2016 Chicago Review of Books Award for best fiction and winner of the Chicago Writers' Association Book of the Year Award. Her novel Paris, He Said was an Illinois Reads selection for 2016 and is set in contemporary Paris and New York. The main character, Jayne Marks, is an artist who moves to Paris to live with a French gallery owner who is worldly, generous, and unfaithful.

He Christine Sneed's fifth book, Please Be Advised: A Novel in Memos, was published in October 2022, along with a short fiction anthology she edited, Love in the Time of Time's Up. Her seventh book and third story collection, Direct Sunlight: Stories, was published in June 2023.

Her other works of fiction include The Virginity of Famous Men, which was a finalist for the 2016 Chicago Review of Books Award for best fiction and winner of the Chicago Writers' Association Book of the Year Award. Her novel Paris, He Said was an Illinois Reads selection for 2016 and is set in contemporary Paris and New York. The main character, Jayne Marks, is an artist who moves to Paris to live with a French gallery owner who is worldly, generous, and unfaithful.

Her first book, a story collection titled Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry, won AWP's 2009 Grace Paley Prize; Ploughshares' award for a first book, the John C. Zacharis Prize; the Chicago Writers Association book of the year (for traditionally published fiction); was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (first-fiction category), and was long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.

Her second book, the novel Little Known Facts, was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice selection in 2013. It centers on a successful Hollywood actor and the effects of his fame on the people to whom he's closest. Little Known Facts was a Booklist top-ten debut novel of 2013 and received the Society of Midland Authors Award for Best Adult Fiction.

Her stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2008, The O. Henry Prize Stories 2012, New England Review, Southern Review, Ploughshares, American Literary Review, Meridian, Massachusetts Review, Notre Dame Review, Third Coast, Barrelhouse, TriQuarterly Online, South Dakota Review, Greensboro Review, Story, and a number of other journals.

She lives in Pasadena, CA and teaches for Northwestern University, UCLA Extension, Stanford Continuing Studies, and Regis University's low-residency MFA program. She attended Georgetown University for an undergraduate degree in French language and literature and Indiana University for a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing. ...more

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	Little Known Facts 3.29 avg rating — 1,442 ratings — published 2013 — 9 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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	Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry: Stories 3.87 avg rating — 408 ratings — published 2010 — 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
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	Love in the Time of Time's Up: A Short Fiction Anthology by Christine Sneed (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lynn Freed (Contributor), Gina Frangello (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.52 avg rating — 29 ratings — 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
	Printers Row Journal, March 4, 2012 by Christine Sneed (Goodreads Author), Julia Keller, Chris Jones it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 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
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“It was all still there, an immense quilt of bold, fantastical human will: the faded tawny golds and grays of the descending rooftops and scorched chimney pots, the cold steel-blue river with its fabled Left and Right Banks, the towers and steeples and crooked cobblestone streets, bisected by wide, brutish boulevards. As seductive as a mirage, but every slab of stone, every silent or uproarious inch of it, real. She had not returned triumphant as a brilliant painter or a self-made woman whose only worry about money was how to spend it ... but she had come back to Paris anyway. It was hard to imagine being unhappy here.”
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“It is hard to dispute the evidence that we are a race defined to a significant degree by our pettiness, by how vicious our desire is to keep track, to compare, to win.”
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“You’re recovering from a war, I had said one night. You’re not yourself and won’t be yourself again for a little while longer. The war was being fought internally, of course,”
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