Mary Caponegro

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Mary Caponegro


Born
in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, The United States
November 21, 1956


Mary Caponegro is an American experimental fiction writer whose collections include Tales from the Next Village, The Star Cafe, Five Doubts, The Complexities of Intimacy, and All Fall Down. Her stories appear regularly in Conjunctions and in other periodicals. She was awarded the Rome Prize in Literature in 1992, and is also the recipient of The General Electric Award for Younger Writers, the Bruno Arcudi Prize, and the Charles Flint Kellog Award in Arts and Letters. She has taught at Brown University, RISD, the Institute of American Indian Arts, Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Syracuse University. She is the Richard B. Fisher Family Professor of Writing and Literature at Bard College. Her work has been praised for its syntactic compl ...more

Average rating: 3.8 · 564 ratings · 83 reviews · 25 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Star Cafe

3.98 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions
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The Complexities of Intimacy

3.79 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2001
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Five Doubts

3.97 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions
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All Fall Down

3.47 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions
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Addressing the Negative

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My Father's Blessing

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Star Café

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The Star Cafe & Other Stories

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“So then, overwhelmed but empowered as she now feels, she steers the boat away from the chaos before her, in no particular toward, only away, and hearing in the receding background the indignant and horrified indications of betrayal, she reminds herself that betrayal is only the apparent, the surface, and self-affirmation, the truth.”
Mary Caponegro, Tales from the Next Village: Fictions of Mary Caponegro

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