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Susan Kirschbaum

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Born

Philadelphia, The United States

Website

http://www.itsthattimeagain.wordpress.com

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Genre

Fiction, Satire, Hipster Lit

Influences

Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, Henry Miller, Charles Dickens, Victor H ...more

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October 2009

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Susan Kirschbaum started her writing career as a journalist, penning cultural stories for Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, the Jewish Forward, the London Times, New York Observer, New York Magazine, and the New York Times, among others. After myriad art critiques, then dipping into investigative journalism, she decided to delve deeper into the human psyche and write fiction. She’s never looked back.

Her first novel –”Who Town” — a social parody called the “New York hipster Less than Zero” — debuted in May 2012 on Amazon. *UPDATE 2013, Bret Easton Ellis, the author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho read Who Town. To quote him: "It was fun."

There’s a second satirical novel in the works that pays homage to some of Kirschbaum's literary heroes includ ...more

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Who Town

4.30 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions

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Cat’s Cradle

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Mar 04, 2021 11:16PM

Quotes by Susan Kirschbaum (?)

“Preserve your own mystery. We live in an age of social media and what seems like extreme sharing of personal details. I would beg to differ that these revelations are not honest truths but more self-branding. Whatever the case, save a little bit, or a lot, for yourself. If you run around naked all the time, when the storm hits, you’ll have no raincoat.”
― Susan Kirschbaum, Who Town

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Susan’s Quotes

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

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“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

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“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

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“Big Brother is Watching You.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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“I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn