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Scott Dominic Carpenter

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Minnesota-born and Midwest-bred, Scott Dominic Carpenter is the author of Theory of Remainders: A Novel (named to Kirkus Reviews’ “Best Books of 2013”), This Jealous Earth: Stories, French Like Moi (2020) and its sequel Paris Lost and Found, coming out 9/24. Winner of a Mark Twain House Royal Nonesuch Prize (2018) and recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board grant, he has published in a wide variety of venues, including The Rumpus, Silk Road, Catapult, and South Dakota Review. His work has also appeared in various anthologies.

When not tearing his hair out over life in France, Carpenter teaches French literature and creative writing at Carleton College (MN).

His website is at www.sdcarpenter.com.
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French Like Moi: A Midweste...

3.62 avg rating — 668 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions
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Theory of Remainders

3.99 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions
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Paris Lost and Found: A Mem...

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This Jealous Earth

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Reading Lessons: An Introdu...

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“It’s all part of the pedagogic reflex, which in France is as common as acid reflux, an involuntary burping up of knowledge. In this part of the world people are still infatuated with knowing things, whereas in the States we have outsourced that pesky task to Google.”
Scott Dominic Carpenter, French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris

“Time hadn’t eroded his tattered clothes—eyes had. The unrelenting gaze of passersby had worn him down.”
Scott Dominic Carpenter, French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris

“This is the key: the open-air market is partly about food, but mostly about relationships.”
Scott Dominic Carpenter, French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris

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