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Isaac Oliver

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Genre
Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Gay and Lesbian

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David Sedaris, Fran Lebowitz, David Rakoff, James Thurber, Tina Fey, J ...more

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September 2014


Isaac Oliver is an award-winning playwright, author, and performer who hails from Baltimore, Maryland, and currently lives in New York City.

His debut collection of essays, Intimacy Idiot, is forthcoming from Scribner in June. His plays include Electra in a One-Piece, Eddie Goshen is Dead, and the ten-minute plays “3, 2, 1,” “Film Forum,” and “Come Here” (New York Innovative Theatre Award, Outstanding Original Short Script).

He is a graduate of Carver Center for Arts and Technology and Fordham College at Lincoln Center and a MacDowell Colony Fellow. ...more

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Intimacy Idiot
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“They’re gay Slytherins. Beware.”
― Isaac Oliver, Intimacy Idiot
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“This silence felt not like the absence but the presence of something. I felt seen. It was so quiet it felt loud, like that moment between a breath in and a breath out. The woods’ lungs seemed full, as if they were ready at any moment to speak.”
― Isaac Oliver, Intimacy Idiot
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“Hell is other people chewing.”
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