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Los Angeles Times, October 20, 2009
...in California is scheduled to return roughly bimonthly. The next announced reading will be in January 2010, featuring Marisa Silver, an LA Times book prize finalist for her novel "The God of War." -- Carolyn Kellogg Photo: Pasadena Museum of California...
KPBS, September 21, 2009
...in published in the New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Atlantic. 'The God of War' by Marisa Silver One of my many obsessions is the Salton Sea and the forgotten communities surrounding it. Even if you don't have my fascination with the area, I think...
Calendar Live, September 11, 2009
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Albany Democrat Herald, August 7, 2009
...editorial collective. For the summer issue that just came out, the collective was C. Lill Ahrens, AliceAnn Eberman, Marisa Silver, Linda Varsell Smith and McFarland. The art editors were Kristina Kennedy Daniels, Margarita Donnelly, Carolyn Sawtelle and...
China Post, April 26, 2009
...Farrar, Straus and ?The Size of the ,? by Joan Silber (W.W. and ?The God of War,? by Marisa Silver (Simon & Schuster). Each Book Prize carries a US$1,000 award. Other winners: Biography: Paula J. Giddings, ?Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B....
Los Angeles Times, April 25, 2009
...Giroux); 'The Size of the World' by Joan Silber (W.W. Norton); and 'The God of War' by Marisa Silver (Simon & Schuster). Each Book Prize carries a $1,000 award. Other winners: Biography: Paula J. Giddings, 'Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the...
Broadway World, April 3, 2009
...by prominent Los Angeles area writers and academics. Last year LA Magazine Editor-in-Chief Kit Rachlis interviewed local novelists Marisa Silver and Steve Erickson on The Writer's Creative Process in the May salon...
Los Angeles Times, March 2, 2009
...Marisa Silver's 'The God of War' is set at Salton Sea, a Southern California desert lake that was abandoned as a resort after evaporation and increased salinization. 'Squalor and beauty...
Los Angeles Times, March 2, 2009
...s Personal Journey' Fiction:Sebastian Barry, 'The Secret Scripture'Richard Price, 'Lush Life'Marilynne Robinson, 'Home'Joan Silber, ''Marisa Silver, '' Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction:Uwem Akpan, ''Zoe Ferraris, 'Finding Nouf' Sadie Jones, 'The...
New York Times, February 19, 2009
...Details magazine, it publishes a five-part story each week, serial-style: Charles Dickens meets . Contributors thus far have included Marisa Silver, Lauren Groff, Jay McInerney and a lot of other names you would recognize. I?ll definitely be visiting...
Los Angeles Times, January 21, 2009
...the absence of the first person singular. 'The word that stood out the most for me,' said author Marisa Silver, 'was the word 'we.' Taking the 'I' out of the equation makes us keenly aware of the power and responsibility that we, each of us, have to make...
New Yorker, December 15, 2008
...Proulx (Scribner; $25). The Enchantress of Florence, by Salman Rushdie (Random House; $26). The God of War, by Marisa Silver (Simon & Schuster; $23). The Book of Other People, edited by Zadie Smith (Penguin; $15). Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and...
Los Angeles Times, December 5, 2008
...thought of me / than a train thinks / of the sparks scattering / under its iron weight. . . . ' Marisa Silver, 'Ares, 12, seeks refuge from a heavy burden, believing his mute brother Malcolm's brain damage is his fault. Their mother's frequent...
Three Guys One Book, September 30, 2009
...Marisa Silver's story appears in the September 28th issue of the New Yorker . I liked this story; in part because I couldn't make up my mind of what...
Wikipedia - New pages [en], May 17, 2009
...Bats" Ploughshares Annette Sanford "Nobody Listens When I Talk" Descant Katherine Shonk "My Mother's Garden" Tin House Marisa Silver "What I Saw From Where I Stood" The New Yorker Trevanian "The Apple Tree" The Antioch Review John Updike "Personal...
Band of Thebes, May 5, 2009
...writers working in English around the world, including Ha Jin, Junot Diaz, Nadine Gordimer, Paul Theroux, Judy Troy, Marisa Silver, Andrew Sean Greer , and the absolutely terrific Manuel Muñoz . Currently a Whiting Award fellow, Munoz wrote "Tell Him...
Cheaptextbook, November 27, 2008
...Recent Issues About For Student Series Short Stories What I Saw From Where I Stood By Marisa Silver critical reading of reality-based short fiction for students beginning to write in this genre. Two series focus on short stories only: Short Stories for...






















