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Marisa Silver

Marisa Silver is the author of the novels The God of War (a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize), and No Direction Home. She made her fiction debut in The New Yorker when she appeared in the inaugural Debut Fiction issue. Her collection of... Read full bio

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Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. Art can be anything.
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My life in 8 words: "funny, serious, grounded, flighty, certain, ambivalent, diligent, lazy"
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Alone With You will be released on April 05, 2011 in Trade Paperback
Apr 05, 2011
Alone With You is now available in Trade Paperback
Apr 05, 2011
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Sep 29, 2010
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Alone With You is now available in Hardcover, eBook
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Alone With You will be released on April 13, 2010 in Hardcover, eBook
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What is your motto or maxim?
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What’s your greatest fear?
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Which living person do you most admire?
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Marisa Silver Revealed

Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. Art can be anything. Q. If you could acquire any talent, what would it be? A. I'd like to be able to understand what math is about. Why math? Why the sine curve? Why, why, why? Q. What 3 personal qualities are most important to you? A. Kindness, honesty, egalitarianism Q. What do you regret most? A. Having regrets. They are useless. Q. Which living person do you most admire? A. Anyone who is living with incredible deprivation and continues on. That's courage. Learn more about Marisa Silver

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Los Angeles Times, December 30, 2011
...author "Telex from Cuba," a National Book Award finalist: This year I am inspired by my friend Marisa Silver’s resolution from last year, which was no internet (except e-mail and occasionally facebook). My resolution is exactly that. Perhaps that’s...
Cleveland Live, December 28, 2011
...Jennifer Egan Short Stories: Volt: Stories by Alan Heathcock Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr Alone with You by Marisa Silver If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This by Robin Black Nonfiction/memoir: The Autobiography of an Execution by David Dow If You Knew...
Jacket Copy, October 7, 2011
...co-edited. They fielded questions lobbed by the Paris Review's Sadie Stein.Also spotted in the audience were Marisa Silver ("Alone With You"), National Book Award finalist Rachel Kushner ("Telex from Cuba"), Janet Fitch ("White Oleander"), David Francis...
Entertainment, June 30, 2011
...and other diseases that afflict large numbers of people." Alone with You Simon and Schuster, 176 pp. Marisa Silver $13 Silver, a former Clevelander, excels at Joycean epiphanies in the eight stories collected here. In her title story, the book's...
Three Guys One Book, April 4, 2011
...and might make nice additions to a small press interested in foreign reprints. 6)  Alone With You Marisa Silver Published by: Simon & Schuster Trade paperback edition of the short story collection by the author of the excellent The God of War . 7) ...
Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon, March 15, 2011
...2010 (0) The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (7) T.J. English, HAVANA NOCTURNE and Marisa Silver, GOD OF WAR (3) Poetry From The Right Brain – Jean Valentine (0) Freedom Summer, Bob Moses, and the Fight for First Class...