| 3,795 (6,261) | 215 | 5,714 | (3.74) | 11 | 0 | Elizabeth McCracken is the author of six previous works: Bowlaway, Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry, The Giant's House, Niagara Falls All Over Again, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, and Thunderstruck Other Stories. She has served on the faculty at the lowa Writers' Workshop and currently holds the James Michener Chair in Fiction at the University of Texas at Austin. — biography from The Souvenir Museum: Stories … (more) |
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 BookWoman BookGroup- Discussion BookWoman, Thursday, November 20, 2014 at 8pm An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination: A Memoir by Elizabeth McCrackenIn Elizabeth McCracken’s heartrending memoir—a love letter to the child she lost and the devoted husband who suffered alongside her—McCracken displays her many talents. Her warmth, candor, crystalline prose, lovely imagery, and attention to detail bring her painful story to life. McCracken’s dark sense of humor ensnares unwitting readers, belying the sadness with which she writes, and she shows very little patience for self-pity and sentimentality. Critics praised her clear-eyed account in a genre replete with syrupy, self-aggrandizing books, though some expressed doubts that its subject matter would have wide appeal. “I’m not ready for my first child to fade into history,” explains McCracken. With this heartbreaking account of his life, there’s little chance of that. - Bookmarks Magazine
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Location: Street: 5501 N Lamar Blvd Additional: #A-105 City: Austin, Province: Texas Postal Code: 78751-1029 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)
 Elizabeth McCracken Elizabeth McCracken ( The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Niagara Falls all over again, The Giant's House, Thunderstruck & Other Stories) Elizabeth McCracken is the author of An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, The Giant’s House, Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry, and NIAGARA FALLS ALL OVER AGAIN. A former public librarian, she is now a faculty member at the University of Texas, Austin, and has received grants and awards from numerous organizations, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the American Academy in Berlin. Elizabeth is married to the novelist and illustrator Edward Carey. (added from Random House)… (more)
 Elizabeth McCracken Elizabeth McCracken ( The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Niagara Falls all over again, The Giant's House, Thunderstruck & Other Stories) Elizabeth McCracken is the author of An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, The Giant’s House, Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry, and NIAGARA FALLS ALL OVER AGAIN. A former public librarian, she is now a faculty member at the University of Texas, Austin, and has received grants and awards from numerous organizations, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the American Academy in Berlin. Elizabeth is married to the novelist and illustrator Edward Carey. (added from Random House)… (more)
 Elizabeth McCracken Elizabeth McCracken ( The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Niagara Falls all over again, The Giant's House, Thunderstruck & Other Stories) Elizabeth McCracken is the author of An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, The Giant’s House, Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry, and NIAGARA FALLS ALL OVER AGAIN. A former public librarian, she is now a faculty member at the University of Texas, Austin, and has received grants and awards from numerous organizations, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the American Academy in Berlin. Elizabeth is married to the novelist and illustrator Edward Carey. (added from Random House)… (more)
 Elizabeth McCracken Elizabeth McCracken ( The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Niagara Falls all over again, The Giant's House, Thunderstruck & Other Stories) Elizabeth McCracken is the author of An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, The Giant’s House, Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry, and NIAGARA FALLS ALL OVER AGAIN. A former public librarian, she is now a faculty member at the University of Texas, Austin, and has received grants and awards from numerous organizations, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the American Academy in Berlin. Elizabeth is married to the novelist and illustrator Edward Carey. (added from Random House)… (more)
 Joan Wickersham, The News from Spain “ Joan Wickersham has done it again: astonished, enchanted, and moved me, this time in an unorthodox yet classically insightful collection of stories. While each one takes the reader to a world distinctly and alluringly its own, all seven tales come together at the end in a shimmering constellation. Like Alice Munro at her best, Wickersham sees almost too well how the choices we make in our many relationships--with parents, spouses, lovers, teachers, friends; even a chance acquaintance--steer our lives in unpredictable, sometimes shocking ways.” Julia Glass, author of The Three Junes
“Joan Wickersham’s The news from Spain shows, in all its twisty beauty, what a short story collection can do. The stories are gorgeous in themselves, but the way they speak to each other is truly extraordinary.” Elizabeth McCracken, author of An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination
Joan Wickersham was born in New York City. She is the author of two previous books, most recently The suicide index, a National Book Award finalist. Her fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. Her op-ed column appears regularly in The Boston Globe; she has published essays and reviews in the Los Angeles Times and the International Herald Tribune; and she has contributed on-air essays to National Public Radio. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and two sons.
Location: Street: Porter Square Shopping Center Additional: 25 White Street City: Cambridge, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02140 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)
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