Alissa Nutting
Author
Language
English
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Description
Hazel has just run out on her marriage to Byron Gogol, CEO and founder of Gogol Industries, a monolithic corporation hell-bent on making its products and technologies indispensable in daily life. For over a decade her every movement and vital sign tracked. But when he demands to wirelessly connect the two of them via brain chips, Hazel escapes into a trailer park of senior citizens with her father and Diane-- his extremely lifelike sex doll. As Byron...
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In Alissa Nutting's novel Tampa, Celeste Price, a smoldering 26-year-old middle-school teacher in Florida, unrepentantly recounts her elaborate and sociopathically determined seduction of a 14-year-old student.
Celeste has chosen and lured the charmingly modest Jack Patrick into her web. Jack is enthralled and in awe of his eighth-grade teacher, and, most importantly, willing to accept Celeste's terms for a secret relationship-car rides after dark,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Description
The founder of the literary journal "Fairy Tale Review" collects stories inspired by classic fairy tales and written by such authors as Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike, Francine Prose, Kevin Brockmeier, and Shelley Jackson.
Author
Publisher
Simon Element
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 2018, novelist Jami Attenberg, faced with a looming deadline, needed motivation. Using a boot camp model, she and a friend set out to write one thousand words every day for two weeks. They opened this practice to Attenberg's online community, and soon hundreds--then thousands--of people started using #1000WordsofSummer to track their work and support one another. What began as a simple challenge between two friends has become a literary movement--write...