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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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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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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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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’s your fantasy profession? A. Librarian/professional traveler Q. What’s your greatest flaw? A. The desire to control. Especially as regards kids! Q. What is your biggest pet peeve? A. dangling participles, and I don't like curtains. Dangling things, I guess. Learn more about Marisa Silver

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Des Moines Cityview, May 16, 2013
...her children lean into her — it helps define the sense of the era of the Great Depression. Marisa Silver’s powerful new novel is based on this photograph, and she provides an unflinching yet beautiful portrait of what it was like to live through this...
Los Angeles Times, May 10, 2013
...local authors with novels released this year, such as Alex Espinoza (The Five Acts of Diego Leon) and Marisa Silver (Mary Coin.) Gold will participate in a 1 p.m. conversation called "How the San Gabriel Valley Became the Western -- and Maybe the Eastern...
Strongsville Patch, May 10, 2013
...a new book? We can recommend these three new titles and many more. Happy Reading!� Mary Coin By Marisa Silver, March 2013, 322 pages. Most people have seen that iconic photograph of the mother migrant worker taken during the Great Depression. Marisa...
Pasadena Star News, May 7, 2013
...the new and wildly well-reviewed "Margaret Fuller: A New American Life," in conversation with L.A. author Marisa Silver, whose new novel "Mary Coin" about the iconic migrant worker in Dorothea Lange's Depression-era photograph was called "phenomenal" by...
New York Times, April 19, 2013
...semi-alternate universe of Richs novel of ideas, a mathematician becomes an expert predictor of disaster. MARY COIN, by Marisa Silver. (Blue Rider, $26.95.) The photographer Dorothea Lange and her emblematic poverty portrait Migrant Mother inspired...
Los Angeles Times, April 19, 2013
...of accomplished authors who will be appearing during the festival includes Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Lethem, Jamaica Kincaid, Marisa Silver, Mona Simpson, Robin Sloan, Francesca Lia Block, Pico Iyer, Rachel Kushner, Dana Gioia, Luis Rodriguez, Ben...
New York Times, April 14, 2013
...We know the photograph. A seated woman hand at her jaw, skin etched with worry looks into the middle distance. Children rest their heads on her shoulders, faces turned away; an infant lies bundled in her lap. By capturing the plight of Californias...
Chicago Tribune, June 8, 2013
...power and the nature of our souls. Best book I've read this year. 2. "Mary Coin" by Marisa Silver Inspired by "Migrant Mother," Dorothea Lange's famous Depression-era photograph of a migrant worker and her children, it's the fictionalized story of the...
Time Out Chicago, June 7, 2013
...Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story, speaks with Jennifer Day. 2:30pm at Jones College Prep Auditorium. Marisa Silver Silver reflects on her best-selling novel, Mary Coin. 3pm at Grace Place/2nd Floor. Tavi Gevinson The Oak Park resident, former...
Des Moines Cityview, May 16, 2013
...her children lean into her — it helps define the sense of the era of the Great Depression. Marisa Silver’s powerful new novel is based on this photograph, and she provides an unflinching yet beautiful portrait of what it was like to live through this...
News Gazette, May 12, 2013
...Aviator's Wife" hitting bestseller lists. My two recent favorites, however, are "Fever" by Mary Beth Keane and Marisa Silver's "Mary Coin." Mary Mallon, known to most of us as Typhoid Mary, is the fascinating subject of Keane's new novel "Fever."...
Los Angeles Times, May 10, 2013
...local authors with novels released this year, such as Alex Espinoza (The Five Acts of Diego Leon) and Marisa Silver (Mary Coin.) Gold will participate in a 1 p.m. conversation called "How the San Gabriel Valley Became the Western -- and Maybe the Eastern...
Strongsville Patch, May 10, 2013
...a new book? We can recommend these three new titles and many more. Happy Reading!� Mary Coin By Marisa Silver, March 2013, 322 pages. Most people have seen that iconic photograph of the mother migrant worker taken during the Great Depression. Marisa...
San Jose Mercury News, May 7, 2013
...the new and wildly well-reviewed "Margaret Fuller: A New American Life," in conversation with L.A. author Marisa Silver, whose new novel "Mary Coin" about the iconic migrant worker in Dorothea Lange's Depression-era photograph was called "phenomenal" by...