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Chloé Caldwell

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Chloé Caldwell is the author of the national bestseller, WOMEN (Harper Perennial, 2024).

Her book TRYING will be published by Graywolf Press on August 5th, 2025.

She is also the author of the essay collections I'll Tell You in Person, Legs Get Led Astray, and the memoir The Red Zone: A Love Story.

Chloe's work has been published in The New York Times, Bon Appétit, The Cut, Vogue, and many anthologies, including SLUTS, Without a Net, and Goodbye To All That.

Chloe teaches creative nonfiction online and hosts retreats and offers writing support at scrappyliterary.com.
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Chloé Caldwell Hey Caitlin! I didn't see your question until now, a year later. So, Wow, I actually didn't realize that. Maybe at some point I knew it, but forgot. W…moreHey Caitlin! I didn't see your question until now, a year later. So, Wow, I actually didn't realize that. Maybe at some point I knew it, but forgot. When the UK bought the rights to Women, it was editing again by an editor, and she did tweak a few things and now I'm vaguely remembering this. Which ending do you prefer? I actually like that there are two different ones. Though I'd orignally thought about ending the book with page 119 (in the original) where it says "The sun on my face, I spin in my socks, bruised, exhausted, and fluttering back to earth."

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A guide that has everything to say about IoT

Implementation of automation is something along with the commercial availability of technological systems that has an increasing number of adopted Internet of Things technology to seriously reduce infrastructure fees and boom ease of protection and integration. As a result, IoT systems can now file state in near real-time and use the horizontal scale available in cloud environments to place into i

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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
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“Eventually it becomes obvious to me that I have stopped living and started killing time.”
Chloe Caldwell, Women

“All I wanted was simple and yet the hardest thing to find: a sense of well-being.”
Chloe Caldwell, 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.”
Chloe Caldwell, Women

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“Things hurt worse before they hurt better.”
Chloe Caldwell, Women

“Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.”
Anne Carson (Translator), 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.”
Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water

“When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.”
Adrienne Rich

“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.”
Amy Fusselman

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