Human Blues

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Product Details

Price
$28.00  $26.04
Publisher
Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Publish Date
Pages
416
Dimensions
6.1 X 9.1 X 1.4 inches | 1.28 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781982167868

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About the Author

Elisa Albert is the author of After Birth, The Book of Dahlia, the short story collection How This Night Is Different, and the editor of the anthology Freud's Blind Spot. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Tin House, The New York Times, Post Road, The Guardian, Gulf Coast, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Believer, The Rumpus, Time Magazine, on NPR, and in many anthologies. Albert grew up in Los Angeles and received an MFA from Columbia University, where she was a Lini Mazumdar Fellow. A recipient of the Moment magazine emerging writer award and a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize, she has received fellowships from The Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Djerassi, Vermont Studio Center, The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in Holland, the HWK in Germany, and the Amsterdam Writer's Residency. She lives with her family in upstate New York.

Reviews

Praise for Elisa Albert

"Shockingly moving." --The Boston Globe

"Compelling." --The Guardian

"Without a shred of sentimentality." --People

"Virtuosic." --The Washington Post

"Blistering." --The New Yorker

"Obscene." --The New York Times

"[A] revelation.'' --Jenny Offill

"Thought-provoking." --Lydia Davis

"Gutsy." --Sam Lipsyte

"The real thing." --Erica Jong

"Bukowski with a vagina and a motherfucker of a hangover." --Shalom Auslander

"Exhilaratingly honest." --Karen Russell

"Wildly entertaining." --Jayne Anne Phillips
"Provocative, fast-paced and darkly funny... [Human Blues] an energizing read for anyone who's ever been told, 'Oh, you're just on your period'" --Good Housekeeping