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Ander Monson is the author of Neck Deep and Other Predicaments, winner of the Graywolf Press Non-fiction Prize; the novel Other Electricities; and the poetry collections Vacationland and The Available World. He lives in Arizona and edits the magazine DIAGRAM.

Tekijän teokset

Other Electricities: Stories (2005) 122 kappaletta
Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir (2010) 69 kappaletta
Vacationland (2005) 30 kappaletta
How We Speak to One Another (2017) 24 kappaletta
I Will Take the Answer: Essays (2020) 19 kappaletta
The Available World: Poems (2010) 13 kappaletta
The Gnome Stories (2020) 12 kappaletta
Predator: A Memoir (2022) 11 kappaletta
DIAGRAM.4 (2011) 3 kappaletta
DIAGRAM.2 (2006) 3 kappaletta
My Monument (2020) 2 kappaletta
DIAGRAM III (2008) 2 kappaletta

Associated Works

The Best American Essays 2008 (2008) — Avustaja — 290 kappaletta
xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths (2013) — Avustaja — 274 kappaletta

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I don't think you have to be a librarian to enjoy this book, but you probably need to love libraries. And books. But Ander, darling, you must stop stealing stuff from special collections!
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RachelGMB | Aug 5, 2015 |
I loved this strange, inventive, beautiful collection of stories, halfway between poetry and insanity.

I love the lonely, fucked-up, snowy, magical setting of the UP. I love the radio schematics and diagrams. I especially love everything having to do with Liz, Carrie, and Yr Protagonist. There were a few stories I didn't love, but that doesn't dull my appreciation for the work as a whole.
 
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thatotter | 2 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 6, 2014 |
I am really amazed by this guy's writing. Can't wait to read all his books.
 
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mjennings26 | 2 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Apr 3, 2013 |
SO MUCH SNOW COMING DOWN


If the pieces of the whole were mostly "luminous", were somehow made actual as in "galvanized", then the "scrambled"-ness of this editorial "experiment" may have proven to be more successful. Problem for me was I only believed one half of it and the "charge" was not as "sparkling" as it might (could) be.

I think the promise made by the Kentucky publisher, Sarabande Books, was a little beyond the pale when they claimed this work "...uncompromising and relentless, hypnotic and dreamlike, darkly humorous and surprisingly tender". Again, I would say maybe with a luckier draw they may have gotten something else half right. That is not to say there weren't some bright spots and near brilliance in this collection of stories for me. There were. But don't believe the hype.

Instead of a novel or a group of short stories I would much rather have from Monson mere doses of truth, or even false heads that feel like the truth, than whole stories made-up and sounding like they want to be seriously listened to. In other words, I prefer any day over these examples a Monson essay, or memoir, that isn't really or exactly true to these, for the most part, so-called fictions.
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MSarki | 2 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 31, 2013 |

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