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Cara Hoffman

CARA HOFFMAN has won a New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for her work on violence and adolescents and has worked as an investigative reporter covering New York State's rural and Rust Belt communities, where she reported on... Read full bio

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A. New York City
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March 18, 2011
David Mathews’ memoir Ace of Spades is the story of the author’s bleak childhood and adolescence in inner city...
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March 18, 2011
The recently released Vida report, tallying the disparity between men and women being published today is a sobering reminder of...
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March 18, 2011
Derrick Jensen has produced some of the most culturally significant writing about the environment (and about the psychological...
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March 18, 2011
The U.S. House of Representatives voted recently to withhold all federal funding from Planned Parenthood for birth control,...
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February 3, 2011
When I first read Philipp Meyer’s American Rust I was struck by the poetry of it and exhilarated by the issues the author...
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February 2, 2011
When I first read Philipp Meyer’s American Rust I was struck by the poetry of it and exhilarated by the issues the author...
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January 27, 2011
Readers of my blog (and friends) will know my mother as the person whose ideas about parenting included reading booze-drenched...
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January 19, 2011
I was putting a picture of me and E. into a new frame recently when I took the backing off and found a foodstamp. The old-school...
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January 19, 2011
Recently a friend who’s been reading my blog asked why I only write about the things I think and not about things I do or...
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January 19, 2011
I get asked a lot of parenting questions these days and questions about being a single mother. I think this is partly because...
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January 19, 2011
When I was a child my favorite story was a piece by James Thurber that my mother used to read to me. It was called “Something...
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Mar 17, 2012
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So Much Pretty will be released on March 06, 2012 in Trade Paperback
Mar 06, 2012
So Much Pretty is now available in Trade Paperback
Mar 06, 2012
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Jan 21, 2012
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May 05, 2011
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Mar 18, 2011
So Much Pretty will be released on March 15, 2011 in Hardcover, eBook
Mar 15, 2011
So Much Pretty is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Mar 15, 2011
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Mar 05, 2011
Mar 03, 2011
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Feb 10, 2011

Cara Hoffman Revealed

Q. If you could eat only one thing for the rest of your days, what would it be? A. crystalized ginger Q. With whom in history do you most identify? A. Philosophically? Emma Goldman Q. What’s your greatest flaw? A. impatience Q. What is your greatest achievement? A. raising a son Learn more about Cara Hoffman

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Los Angeles Times, April 9, 2012
...Extra Yarn”) signs his books at Mrs. Nelson’s Toy and Book Shop . April 13  7 p.m. Cara Hoffman discusses and signs “So Much Pretty” at Vroman’s . April 13  7 p.m. Steven John presents and signs “Three A.M.” at Book Soup . April...
Los Angeles Daily News, April 9, 2012
...t See You Cry," 7 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 1201 Third St., Santa Monica. 310-260-9110. Friday Cara Hoffman discusses and signs "So Much Pretty," 7 p.m. Vroman's Bookstore, 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. 626-449-5320. Saturday Judeanne Wiley reads from her...
Denver Post, April 8, 2012
...Story of Love and Loss." Tattered Cover, Colfax 2526 E. Colfax Ave. Mon: 7:30 p.m. Cara Hoffman will read from and sign "So Much Pretty." Wed: 7:30 p.m. Jonah Lehrer will discuss and sign "Imagine: How Creativity Works." Fri: 7:30 p...
NPR, April 5, 2012
...and nonfiction releases from Margaret Drabble, Leslie Daniels, Donna Leon and Karen Abbott. Fiction and nonfiction releases from Cara Hoffman, Robert Baer, Adam Hochschild and Billy Collins. Please keep your community civil. All comments must follow the...
NPR, April 4, 2012
...and nonfiction releases from Margaret Drabble, Leslie Daniels, Donna Leon and Karen Abbott. Fiction and nonfiction releases from Cara Hoffman, Robert Baer, Adam Hochschild and Billy Collins. Please keep your community civil. All comments must follow the...
Raleigh News & Observer, April 1, 2012
...So Much Pretty by Cara Hoffman. (Simon & Schuster) The disappearance of a waitress foments an atmosphere of paranoia in an upstate New York town in Hoffman?s first novel, which addresses rural poverty, domestic abuse...
NPR, March 28, 2012
...and nonfiction releases from Margaret Drabble, Leslie Daniels, Donna Leon and Karen Abbott. Fiction and nonfiction releases from Cara Hoffman, Robert Baer, Adam Hochschild and Billy Collins. Fiction and nonfiction releases from Patricia Marx, Meg...
Huffington Post, March 6, 2012
...than three decades, and I'd bet my hands on her integrity. And her editor at S&S championed Cara Hoffman's So Much Pretty , which I seemed to think was the bravest American novel of 2011. If those two women were in league with a sociopath... well, I...
Huffington Post, March 6, 2012
...than three decades, and I'd bet my hands on her integrity. And her editor at S&S championed Cara Hoffman's So Much Pretty So I did two things. I pressed Feldman's agent and publisher for a response to the Satmars' charges. And I paid close attention to...
Cairns Post, February 25, 2012
...Stacy Flynn starts to make inquiries. But the other mystery in So Much Pretty is why first-time author Cara Hoffman so dramatically underplays the book’s second and bigger drama, unveiled near the end, and leaves the first so murkily unresolved. This...
Shesaid, February 1, 2012
...position whose remarkable stories inspired her to become an activist for the homeless community. So Much Pretty, by Cara Hoffman. Published by Random House, $32.95. When 19-year-old local waitress, Wendy White, disappears, the small town of Haeden, New...
Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, January 29, 2012
...Gallagher, Lake Ariel; David Gilligan, Lake Ariel; Wayne Gilligan, Lake Ariel; Kathleen Gregory, Tunkhannock; Allison Grevera, Old Forge; Cara Hoffman, Shavertown; Louis Honeywell, Wilkes-Barre; Dwight Houseman, Duryea; Megan Hunsinger, Hazleton;...
The Signal, January 24, 2012
...It’s not often that a book leaves me with such mixed feelings as Cara Hoffman’s debut, “So Much Pretty.” The novel takes place in Haeden, a local town in upstate N.Y., and revolves around the disappearance of Wendy White, a young local...
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com, July 8, 2011
...line, from a child to her parent, that I found most haunting in an avalanche of them in Cara Hoffman's novel, So Much Pretty . It's spoken by a girl in an era where young women are not as safe as we as a civilized society would like...