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Elena Passarello

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Charleston, SC

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http://www.elenapassarello.com

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Nonfiction, Music, Memoir

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Wayne Kostenbaum, Woody Allen, Carl Sagan, Michel de Montaigne, Fonzie ...more

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Elena Passarello is the author of Let Me Clear My Throat (Sarabande 2012), a collection of essays on some unforgettable moments in the history of the human voice. Her writing on music, performance, pop culture, and the natural world has appeared in Slate, Creative Nonfiction, the Normal School, Oxford American, Iowa Review, and the 2012 music writing anthology Pop When the World Falls Apart (Duke University Press 2012).

For a decade, Elena worked as an actor and voice-over performer throughout the East Coast and in the Midwest. She originated roles in the world premieres of Christopher Durang’s Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge and David Turkel’s Wild Signs and Holler. To date, she has performed seven of Shakespeare’s comedies, zero S ...more

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	Animals Strike Curious Poses 3.79 avg rating — 960 ratings — published 2017 — 15 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
	Let Me Clear My Throat 4.18 avg rating — 288 ratings — published 2012 — 5 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
	Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World by Paul Bogard (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Glenn Albrecht (Foreword), Laura Erin England (Contributor) 4.30 avg rating — 103 ratings — 5 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
	Cat Is Art Spelled Wrong by Caroline Casey (Editor), Chris Fischbach (editor), Sarah Schultz (editor) 3.37 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 2015 — 3 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
	After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays by David Lazar (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Patrick Madden (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Chris Arthur (Contributor) 3.88 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2015 — 3 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
	Goats and Sheep. A Portrait Farm by Kevin Horan, Elena Passarello (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — 3 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

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Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)

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The Late Interiors: A Life Under Construction

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Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

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“We seem programmed to work for a future which doesn’t concern us exactly, but that rather involves something that resembles us. We all walk through the woods, our bodies rushing at the atomic level toward the idea that something is next.”
― Elena Passarello, Animals Strike Curious Poses

tags: future, genetics, humanity

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“As if every animal a human brain has ever seen, it has swallowed. We find their outlines, as if on Ouija boards, in mountains and in clouds. We scratch the arcs of their trunks in the dirt with our feet, or use the sharpest tools available to dig them from shocks of wood. Give us a stick and we’ll draw them. Find a discarded antler on the steppe and we’ll locate them in its tines. Hit a rock on a cave wall until it yields one. Spread them out across the night sky and we’ll point upward. See how they twinkle as they move?”
― Elena Passarello, Animals Strike Curious Poses

tags: animals, curiosity, humanity, wonder

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