Stacey D'Erasmo
Author of Tea
About the Author
Stacey D'Erasmo was an accomplished literary reviewer before making the crossover to novelist. She was Senior Editor at The Voice Literary Supplement for seven years and has written articles for Rolling Stone, The Nation, Details and New York Newsday. She won a Stegner Fellowship in Fiction based show more on the first forty pages of TEA and went on to become the first Fiction Editor for Artforum. She is currently a contributing writer for Out. She lives in New York. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Stacey D'Erasmo
A Seahorse Year: A Novel 1 copy
The Complicities 1 copy
Associated Works
Tasting Life Twice: Literary Lesbian Fiction by New American Writers (1995) — Contributor — 124 copies
Significant Objects: 100 Extraordinary Stories about Ordinary Things (2012) — Contributor — 57 copies
Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives (2009) — Contributor — 23 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1961
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, USA
- Education
- New York University (MA)
Barnard College (BA) - Occupations
- novelist
literary critic - Organizations
- The Village Voice Literary Supplement
Stanford University
Fordham University
Columbia University - Awards and honors
- Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize (2012)
Guggenheim Fellowship (2009) - Agent
- Bill Clegg (The Clegg Agency)
Taryn Roeder (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
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Wonderland by Stacey D'Erasmo
I really thought this would be a book about a lady trying to renew her career as in indie rocker and some of it was. Hard to really get into her renewing her career after a 7 year lapse in between learning about her affairs, her family, etc. This could have been a very interesting book if it had just stuck to the original plot.
So many layers to this novel! When exactly are we complicit in crime, in life? When is it right to stick to our beliefs and when do we need to consider alternate endings, endings we have the power to change? If you're looking for something that's enjoyable (the writing was excellent and relatable), but also makes you contemplate your own life and your own complicities, read this book. You'll be thinking about it long after the last page.
I found this book interesting, poetic, quiet and pleasant all while the protagonist is in the midst of a tour of Europe, a midlife dilemma, a struggle for identity without art, and a rock-n-roll scene.
D'Erasmo has written a book that hits on how art (music, visual, and written) is ambiguous and "awash in insecurity and instability". She gives us a montage of flashbacks: a childhood of traveling the world with her artist parents, past album tours, drug-induced creative processes, loss, letters to her sister, past relationships, fears, daydreams, and possibilities. I finished the last page and the first thing that came to mind was- Satisfied.… (more)
D'Erasmo has written a book that hits on how art (music, visual, and written) is ambiguous and "awash in insecurity and instability". She gives us a montage of flashbacks: a childhood of traveling the world with her artist parents, past album tours, drug-induced creative processes, loss, letters to her sister, past relationships, fears, daydreams, and possibilities. I finished the last page and the first thing that came to mind was- Satisfied.… (more)
The blurb pulls the plot of this book together in a helpful way - I just finished the book and the blurb confirmed that I had understood what was going on! This was depressing - the narrator is probably unreliable; everyone can justify their own behaviour to themselves. I found the whale sections boring - was there meant to be some allegorical significance? Beautifully written about people I didn't like who made choices I would never make.
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