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Stephen Policoff

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Richmond, VA, The United States

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Stephen Policoff's 1st novel, BEAUTIFUL SOMEWHERE ELSE, won the James Jones Award, and was published by Carroll & Graf in 2004. His essay about his disabled daughter's experience in music therapy, "Music Today?" won the Fish Short Memoir Award and was published in FISH ANTHOLOGY 2012 (West Cork University Press, Ireland). It subsequently appeared in KINDLING QUARTERLY and has been widely republished on music therapy sites all over the world. His memoir, SIXTEEN SCENES FROM A FILM I NEVER WANTED TO SEE, was published by Monkey Puzzle Press in January 2014. His 2nd novel, COME AWAY, won the Mid-Career Author Award, and was published by Dzanc Books in November 2014. He teaches writing in Global Liberal Studies at NYU. ...more

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What are you currently working on?

Stephen Policoff I am working on a third novel...it is the 3rd part of an unintentional trilogy, with the same characters and the same mélange of dark domestic comedy …moreI am working on a third novel...it is the 3rd part of an unintentional trilogy, with the same characters and the same mélange of dark domestic comedy and a mild buzz of the supernatural which you will find in COME AWAY.(less)

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Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

Stephen Policoff I would have to say that Pip and Estella, in GREAT EXPECTATIONS, is my favorite fictional couple. First, that book remains one of my favorite novels d…moreI would have to say that Pip and Estella, in GREAT EXPECTATIONS, is my favorite fictional couple. First, that book remains one of my favorite novels decades after I first encountered it. And their fraught, impossible yet unbearably poignant relationship seems to resonate even in as utterly different an era as our own--that they are inextricably bound to one another yet unable to really help one another is both sad and real. And that Dickens felt impelled to provide both an implausibly happy ending for them and a bleaker one just underlines the whole idea of their improbable yet mesmerizing love. That one can love someone--go on loving someone-- yet know that it is useless or at least self-thwarting to do so, is real, tragic, and beautiful to me.(less)

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Average rating: 4.11 · 73 ratings · 25 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Come Away 4.25 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Dangerous Blues: Kind of a Ghost Story 4.45 avg rating — 22 ratings — 2 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
	Beautiful Somewhere Else: A Novel 3.14 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2004 — 2 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
	Sixteen Scenes from a Film I Never Wanted to See really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014	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
	Fish Anthology 2012 by Clem Cairns (Editor), Michael Ray, Martin Childs it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012	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
	Beautiful Somewhere Else 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2004	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
	The conquest of Bali: A spectacle 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	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