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Amy Hempel's Books
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The Dog of the MarriageAmy Hempel's compassion, intensity, and illuminating observations have made her one of the most distinctive and admired modern writers. In three...Read More
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The Collected Stories of Amy HempelAmy Hempel is a master of the short story. This celebrated volume gathers together her complete work -- four short collections of stunning stories...Read More
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Huffington Post, February 7, 2012
...by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs." -James Joyce, Finnegans Wake • Amy Hempel, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English at Harvard University, selects: "I had a farm in Africa too." Richard Wiley, Ahmed's...
Yakima Herald Republic, December 28, 2011
...$24.99. * Adam Jones has managed Inklings Bookshop since 2004. Among his favorite writers are Margaret Atwood, Amy Hempel and Alice Munro. Jones and other Inklings staff members review books in this space each week...
Boston Magazine, December 16, 2011
...Mona Simpson and Cal Bedient, and has MFAs from Columbia University and Brooklyn College, where he studied with Amy Hempel. His stories have also appeared in Esquire , and his collection Palo Alto was published by Scribner in 2011. He is now working on...
Huffington Post, December 8, 2011
...to have undergone group pruning. In the future, he might want to cut down on his intake of Amy Hempel. That's not meant as a put-down but rather to compliment the stark discipline of this novel/confession. He can put more flesh on the bones of his next...
Huffington Post, December 8, 2011
...to have undergone group pruning. In the future, he might want to cut down on his intake of Amy Hempel. That's not meant as a put-down but rather to compliment the stark discipline of this novel/confession. He can put more flesh on the bones of his next...
Midlands Leadership Ltd, December 5, 2011
...recently. The writers I read whom initially helped open up the idea of what writing could do—Stevie Smith, Amy Hempel, Mary Ruefle, Frank O’Hara, Barry Hannah, Larry Levis, Claire Bateman, Russell Edson, Lydia Davis. I feel incredibly unsatisfied...
Harvard Crimson, December 1, 2011
...you that creative writing at Harvard is an exclusive sphere. They say that the Advanced Fiction Workshop with Amy Hempel can be the literary equivalent of Math 55, that The Advocate is the final club for the Moleskine-wielding variety of Harvard student....
The Cult, September 20, 2011
...with writing advice from people like Neil Gaiman, Bret Easton Ellis, Craig Clevenger, Max Barry, Stephen Graham Jones, Amy Hempel, Jack Ketchum, Holiday Reinhorn, Christopher Bram, Steve Erickson and of course, Chuck himself. What Does This Mean For...
HTMLGIANT, August 10, 2011
...when a book like Franco’s garners such attention. Palo Alto received blurbs from literary powerhouses Gary Shteyngart, Amy Hempel, and Ben Marcus. Franco published his collection with a major press in a time where the phrase “story collections...
Mystic Medusa, August 10, 2011
...it with style and some semblance of Art. Via Nextness , I found this AMAZING short story…It is by Amy Hempel - a Saggo – one of THE most anthologised short stories of all time and it was the first thing she ever wrote! If you haven’t read I...
The Rumpus.net, July 15, 2011
...House of Paper. I’ll take it wherever I go. Today, two copies of The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel sit side by side on a shelf in Portland. One is mine–a gift from a dear old friend who introduced me to her long ago, sure that I would...
elephant journal, June 23, 2011
...This is a Bukowski summer. Another guy that supposedly influenced his works. I) The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel , I’ve read everything Raymond Carver wrote a billion times over . I might even re-read him again this summer. Hempel...
Altucher Confidential, June 20, 2011
...It was really horrible what I did to them. Grad school! All my classes paid for plus an entire $1100 stipend a month to live on. Suddenly, for the first time in my life, I was rich . I was Jimmy Rockefeller. I felt like every worry in life had now shed...
Beattie's Book Blog - unofficial ho, June 10, 2011
...tenure at Scribner, Ms. Graham has worked with such fiction writers as Don DeLillo, Stephen King, Annie Proulx, Amy Hempel, Ann Beattie, Kate Walbert, Kathy Reichs, Carol Edgarian, Rafael Yglesias, and Colm Tóibín, and has introduced new writers such...
