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Dana Spiotta

Dana Spiotta
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Dana Spiotta

Dana Spiotta is the author of Lightning Field, a New York Times Notable Book, and Eat the Document, a finalist for the National Book Award. She lives in Syracuse, New York, with her husband and daughter.

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Stone Arabia will be released on July 10, 2012 in Trade Paperback
Feb 10, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from Stone Arabia
Sep 22, 2011
Stone Arabia will be released on July 12, 2011 in Hardcover, eBook
Jul 12, 2011
Stone Arabia is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Jul 12, 2011
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Chapter 1 from Stone Arabia
Jul 02, 2011
Jun 28, 2011
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Jun 18, 2011
Eat the Document will be released on November 28, 2006 in Trade Paperback
Nov 28, 2006
Eat the Document is now available in Trade Paperback
Nov 28, 2006
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Nov 28, 2006
Eat the Document is now available in
Nov 28, 2006
Eat the Document will be released on February 21, 2006 in eBook
Feb 21, 2006
Eat the Document is now available in eBook
Feb 21, 2006
Eat the Document will be released on February 07, 2006 in
Feb 07, 2006
Eat the Document is now available in
Feb 07, 2006
Lightning Field will be released on July 16, 2002 in Trade Paperback
Jul 16, 2002

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Toledoblade.com, February 5, 2012
...Open City; Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot; Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger's Child; Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision, and Dana Spiotta, Stone Arabia. Nonfiction: Amanda Foreman, A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War;...
New Zealand Herald, January 30, 2012
...Dana Spiotta teaches creative writing at New York's Syracuse University. Her first novel featured in the New York Times Notable Book list, while her second gained a book award. Spiotta...
St. Petersburg Times, January 28, 2012
...Open City; Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot; Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger's Child; Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision; and Dana Spiotta, Stone Arabia. Nonfiction: Amanda Foreman, A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War;...
KansasCity.com, January 27, 2012
...Eugenides was cited for ?The Marriage Plot,? a novel in part about a subject close to reviewers ? the love of books. It?s his first release since winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for ?Middlesex.? Other fiction finalists included short story writer...
Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 26, 2012
...Lookout Books) (Also a finalist for the National Book Award and the Story Prize) "Stone Arabia," by Dana Spiotta (Scribner) Nonfiction "A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War," by Amanda Foreman (Random House) "The...
Huffington Post, January 24, 2012
...Pearlman, whose "Binocular Vision" was a National Book Award nominee last fall; Alan Hollinghurst's acclaimed "The Stranger"; Dana Spiotta's "Stone Arabia" and Teju Cole's debut novel "Open City." Five finalists in each of six categories were selected...
Boston Globe, January 23, 2012
...Binocular Vision (Lookout Books), a collection of cosmopolitan short fiction, gleaned from three decades. http://articles.boston.com/2011-02-04/ae/29342357_1_short-stories-love-and-death-pearlman Dana Spiotta, Stone Arabia (Scribner), about the creative...
Largehearted Boy, October 14, 2011
...way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis, Kate Christensen, Kevin Brockmeier, George Pelecanos, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, David Peace, Myla Goldberg, and many others. Occasionally I am asked about the blogs and...
World of Psychology, October 3, 2011
...I read an excellent novel last weekend, Dana Spiotta’s Stone Arabia . Like any good novel, it’s about many things, but in particular, it made me think about the issue of self-curation. In his “Chronicles,” the character...
The Millions, September 22, 2011
...the face of resounding obscurity.” Turn that question inside-out, and it is just as relevant to Stone Arabia , Dana Spiotta’s third novel: How is fame constructed? Do the famous make themselves for us, their fans and consumers, or do we make them?...
The Happiness Project, September 19, 2011
...I read an excellent novel this weekend, Dana Spiotta's Stone Arabia . Like any good novel, it's about many things, but in particular, it made me think about the issue of self-curation. In his "Chronicles," the...
The OF Blog, September 12, 2011
...month.  Most of these are first-time reads; some might even be reviewed in the near future.286  Dana Spiotta, Stone Arabia (solid novel that trods some of the same ground that A Visit from the Goon Squad does, but it stands out enough to be a good read...
Largehearted Boy, August 11, 2011
...legacy. Pop & Hiss notes the new mural on Silver Lake's Elliott Smith tribute wall. Bookworm interviews Dana Spiotta about her new novel Stone Arabia. Tablet profiles the writer Delmore Schwartz. Vetiver's Andy Cabic talks to the San Francisco Chronicle...
Moonraking, August 9, 2011
...The one other novel I read in the midst of my Classic Doorstops was Dana Spiotta's new Stone Arabia (link to Amazon where it's for sale for less than $14).  This was also my first Kindle book purchase of over $1.99...