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Ander Monson


Born
Houghton, MI
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Genre
Nonfiction, Contemporary, Fiction


Ander Monson is the author of Vanishing Point; Neck Deep and Other Predicaments, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize; the novel Other Electricities; and the poetry collections Vacationland and The Available World. He lives and teaches in Arizona and edits the magazine DIAGRAM.

Although Ander is a proud graduate of Knox College, he also received advanced degrees from Iowa State and the University of Alabama.

More info is available here.
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Average rating: 3.81 · 3,388 ratings · 553 reviews · 29 distinct works • Similar authors
Other Electricities
4.10 avg rating — 368 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
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Letter to a Future Lover: M...
3.08 avg rating — 363 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions
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Neck Deep and Other Predica...
3.95 avg rating — 271 ratings — published 2007
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Predator: A Memoir, a Movie...
3.92 avg rating — 213 ratings — published 2022 — 5 editions
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Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir
3.61 avg rating — 213 ratings — published 2010
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Vacationland
3.80 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
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The Gnome Stories
3.09 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions
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I Will Take the Answer: Essays
3.68 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions
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The Available World: Poems
3.71 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2010
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How We Speak to One Another
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“To be alive is to be dizzy and not to know exactly where to go.”
― Ander Monson
tags: alive, confusion, dizziness, life, living, mazes
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“I am drawn mostly, insistently to the human voice. How powerful and necessary the solo voice, the experience of being someone, something else for a little while. This is and will remain literature’s killer app, the thing most impervious to threat by everything that’s not the word.”
― Ander Monson
tags: books, literature, stories, storytelling, writing, written-word
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“We are all in wires, eventually, reduced to what we said, or didn't say, and what we wrote or didn't write, who loved or didn't love, or loved and lost and never told it except for writing in or to a book. We are all discarded, discordant, confusingly, and so I salute your bravery, book inscriber. Your heart is big enough for both of us, so that there is no room for mockery in me. Anyone willing to strip themselves this bare this fast this way deserves our breathlessness and our hearts' attention. Let's spend an hour, then longer, in contemplation. If you open, open all the way, or as much as you can bear, or else there's nothing here at all.”
― Ander Monson
tags: loss, love, marginalia, writing
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