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Stephan Eirik Clark

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Born

Germany

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http://www.stephanclark.com

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Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Historical Fiction

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Vladimir Nabokov, Nathanael West, Don DeLillo, Kingsley Amis, TC Boyle ...more

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Stephan Eirik Clark is the author of the novel Sweetness #9 (Little, Brown) and the short story collection Vladimir's Mustache (Russian Life Books), a finalist for the 2013 Minnesota Book Award. He teaches at Augsburg College in Minneapolis. ...more

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The Black Cloud Hanging Over Me

When I was asked to contribute to the Atlantic’s By Heart series, for which an author describes a cherished work or influence, I rushed over to the website to see who’d already been covered — and was surprised to discover Don DeLillo had not. That made it pretty easy to decide what I’d write about. The first paragraph of my tribute to DeLillo — and especially his novel White Noise — is below:

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Average rating: 3.21 · 1,710 ratings · 289 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	Sweetness #9 3.19 avg rating — 1,680 ratings — published 2014 — 13 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
	Vladimir's Mustache: And Other Stories 4.22 avg rating — 18 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
	The Loudest Voice (Volume 1) by Amaranth Borsuk (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gabriela Jáuregui, Jeff Solomon 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2010	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
	Geography of the Heart 0.00 avg rating — 0 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
	Sweetness #9[SWEETNESS #9][Hardcover] by StephanEirikClark, Stephan Eirik Clark (Goodreads Author) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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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“The questions that undermine our faith don’t arrive through deep meditation and diligent study. They pop up like soldiers from a fox-hole, ready to shoot you down before you even have the time to realize you’re dead.”
― Stephan Eirik Clark, Sweetness #9

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“Communism will kill you quicker than a maraschino cherry ever will.”
― Stephan Eirik Clark, Sweetness #9

tags: communism, food, food-for-thought, humor

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“Maybe this was simply how the Wheel of Fortune spun. You were pinned to it at birth and sent rolling away into your life. There was no profit to be had in trying to line up where you were with what you had done. You got dunked in the waters when you should be lifted up high, then raised toward the sun when your every action said you should be hidden in a low, dark place.”
― Stephan Eirik Clark, Sweetness #9

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“When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew it was something else, possibly a woman; and when he had it all -- cash, booze, and a wife -- he couldn't be distracted from the great emptiness that was always falling through him and never hit the ground.”
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