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Isaac Oliver

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The United States

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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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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 3.87 avg rating — 1,167 ratings — published 2015 — 7 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
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The First Bad Man

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Stone Mattress: Nine Tales

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The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)

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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.”
― Isaac Oliver, Intimacy Idiot

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