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R.L. Maizes
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August 2012
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Other People's Pets
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2020
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We Love Anderson Cooper
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2019
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A Complete Fiction
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A Cat Called Grievous
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Tattoo
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"Strike up the band: there's a new R.L. Maizes (We Love Anderson Cooper; Other People's Pets) book, and it's breakout-novel time--or at least it should be. As a funny-pitiless look at the lengths writers will go to get published, A Complete Fiction deserves shelf space alongside Percival Everett's Erasure and Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Plot." Shelf Awareness gives A Complete Fiction a starred revie
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"A cynical rom-com about a woman in her fiftieth year who, after a lively, vivid, devil-may-care life up until this point, begins to be tempted to settle down, after her own fashion. She drinks copiously, thinks very highly of her own intellect, has f"
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"Louise Marburg is one of the funniest writers I've read, and Fancy Meeting You is one of her funniest and best books. Laura is such a great protagonist, such a beautiful mess. She's charismatic and opinionated and self-destructive and authentic, and "
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"This was an unexpected delight. Unexpected because it was simply plucked from the new shelf, when I've been too long spoiled by my holds coming in, or the Peak Picks. As an aside though, give me the choices by librarians rather than all Read with Jen"
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“Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another; rather, it teaches us to abide with the fact that, in their own way, all things are true, and helps us, in the face of this terrifying knowledge, continually push ourselves in the direction of Open the Hell Up.”
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