American - Novelist | 1961 -
'The Girls' tells the story of Rose and Ruby Darlen, who are not only literally but spiritually attached for eternity. Born joined at the head in 1974 to a feckless teenage mother who abandons them, and reared by a delightfully open-minded adoptive couple, the Darlen girls are darling girls, indeed.
Stacey D'Erasmo
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A lot of times, really wonderful things that have come my way have come basically out of the blue.
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Royalty mostly seem like members of some anachronistic faith, like the Amish, peculiar in gilded buggies.
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Music is quicksilver, gossamer; careers are measured in butterfly lifetimes.
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Visibility is a tricky thing; is someone visible when you can point her out in a crowd, or when you understand what her life feels like to her?
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What interests me are the complexities and contradictions and struggles and joys of messy human beings.
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The deeper changes wrought by the end of a particular outlaw culture: something will come of that ... and it won't be what we expect.
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On a deeper level, there's a level of privacy that I need in order to work, and if there's been a time when there's been a lot of publicness in my life, it can be a little bit difficult to sort of rebuild that private space.
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All writers are magpies, right? We're always stealing bits from different places and then weaving them into our little nest.
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There is no such thing as a natural fit between form and content. Seamless elegance would be tantamount to erasure.
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In my family, we were on again off again Unitarians, partly because my father, raised Roman Catholic, had had enough of church.
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'The Girls,' by Lori Lansens, is a ballad, a melancholy song of two very strange, enchanted girls who live out their peculiar, ordinary lives in a rural corner of Canada.
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