Chloé Caldwell
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Vivian Gornick. Eileen Myles, Carole Maso, Maggie Nelson, Sheila Heti,
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Women
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2014
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Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York
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2013
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I'll Tell You in Person
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2016
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Legs Get Led Astray
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2011
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Trying: A Memoir
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2025
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5 editions
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The Red Zone: A Love Story
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2022
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The New Age Camp
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2012
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"Read this book from a hotel room while having a fling with this chick I met on hinge named Chloé, for some reason she signed it.
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"This year I turned 30, got bangs, came out as lesbian, broke up with my long term boyfriend (because of said lesbianism,) and developed my first world shattering crush on another woman, so naturally I had to read this."
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| Hmm. I began writing this book in Messejana, Portugal in December 2021 at a residency. It was called 36 Notes on Trying. Later it was called Orphaned Passages: Notes on Trying. My editor and others and I ended up referring to it as "the trying book" ...more | |
“Eventually it becomes obvious to me that I have stopped living and started killing time.”
― Women
― Women
“All I wanted was simple and yet the hardest thing to find: a sense of well-being.”
― I'll Tell You in Person
― I'll Tell You in Person
“I always want to feel good and I never want to feel bad. Because of this, I’m experienced in substance abuse issues.”
― Women
― Women
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“Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.”
― Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
― Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
“If I could go back, I'd coach myself. I'd be the woman who taught me how to stand up, how to want things, how to ask for them. I'd be the woman who says, your mind, your imagination, they are everything. Look how beautiful. You deserve to sit at the table. The radiance falls on all of us.”
― The Chronology of Water
― The Chronology of Water
“My dad is dead. And as I type this, by the window, on the rainy day, I am alive, yes. I am living. But sometimes it doesn't feel like I am doing it fast enough, or hard enough, or all the way. And it is times like that when I can understand wanting a cigarette in my hand, then my mouth, then my hand again. Holding the cigarette. Tending to the cigarette. Giving the cigarette what it needs. Tapping it in the ashtray. Sucking on it.
Then flicking it in the street, like it meant nothing to me.”
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Then flicking it in the street, like it meant nothing to me.”
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