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Carla Sarett
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Freedom to imagine anything.
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Crazy Lovebirds
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Strange Courtships: Nine Romantic Stories
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2012
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The Looking Glass
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A Closet Feminist
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She Has Visions
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Woman on the Run
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Spooky & Kooky Tales
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The Art Collection; Three Short Stories
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Love Hurts! 21 Humorous Stories
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She Has Visions
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My Family Was Like a Russian Novel: poem— out from Plan B
Excited to announce my new poetry chapbook is out from Plan B Press. The book has been shortlisted in several competitions. These poems emerged from my re-reading of the novels of Dostoyevsky during the lockdown— and reognizing so many of the characters in my own family. (“The Idiot” was my dad’s favorite novel…so it figures.)
Thanks so much to the editors of Evening Street Street Review, N Read more of this blog post »
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| This is Tyler doing what she does best— diving into the hearts of ordinary women. The heroine decides, on a whim, to walk away from her family on a vacation….and set herself up in a new identity in a new town. The ways in which she changes are surpri ...more | |
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The book has been re-issued by New York Review of Books, so hope others can find it.
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Hi Alicia, is an amazing book by a great writer.
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| Just finished listening to Little Dorrit (which has my favorite final line of any Dickens novel) in an audiobook with Juliette Stephenson narrating. The book’s as wonderful as I recall, and the humor benefits from being read aloud. This novel’s just ...more | |
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Carla,I wonder if you'd be interested in joining The Completists Club? I have a discussion thread for Muriel Spark there. You seem to be a Spark Completist ;-)
Here it is, in case of interest:
http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/1...