Molly Gaudry

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• 144 Pages •5 x 7.5"
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"They took us swiftly, repeatedly, and all throughout the night, and in the morning when we woke we were theirs."
02/12/2012
Tonight’s post title comes from Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in the Attic (Knopf), which I just started reading last night and am loving. I bought this book at Page Turner 2011, the Asian American Literary Festival in NY this past October. I’m not sure why I picked up this particular book, but it was on the table at…
• Book: The Buddha in the Attic
• Author: Julie Otsuka
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday
• Genre: Fiction, Novels
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• 112 Pages •6 x 9"
• $15.95
A Conversation with Carmen Giménez Smith
01/18/2012
The first thing I need to say is that after reading this book I felt like I totally needed Carmen to be my best friend. Not in a silly BFF way, but in a professional way — because it is really, really difficult to make 30-year-old life decisions (dating, marriage, children) when all I’ve got…
• Book: Bring Down the Little Birds: On Mothering Art, Work, and Everything Else
• Author: Carmen Giménez Smith
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Genre: Essays, Fragmented Narratives, Literary Non-fiction, Memoir, Poetry
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• 448 Pages •5.5 x 8.5"
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Happy Thanksgiving from The Lit Pub (with James Herriot)
11/24/2011
I’d like to begin with a little confession: I had no idea what book I was going to write about for today’s post until about 5 p.m. yesterday, on Thanksgiving eve. It wasn’t the end of the world — my backup plan was to publish any of the 50+ posts we already have scheduled for…
• Book: All Creatures Great and Small
• Author: James Herriot
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Genre: Essays, Fiction, Humor, Literary History, Memoir
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• 114 Pages •5 x 8"
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On Marguerite Duras and "Writing"
11/11/2011
Marguerite Duras’s essay, “Writing,” ends with: ”Writing comes like the wind. It’s naked, it’s made of ink, it’s the thing written, and it passes like nothing else passes in life, nothing more, except life itself.” Marguerite Duras. What a name. Like Lol Stein. I am listening to Soley, this song on repeat, thinking about solitude and…
• Book: Writing
• Author: Marguerite Duras
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Genre: Essays, Literary Non-fiction, Meditations, Memoir
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• 288 Pages •5.3 x 8"
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There would be no Lit Pub if not for Blake Butler.
10/11/2011
This story is old; I’ve told it before but I’ll pinch it to this: In the spring of ’98, I read his story “The Gown from Mother’s Stomach” in Ninth Letter and felt a hard hurt in my throat. I flipped to his bio, discovered his blog, and for the next days I systematically clicked…
• Book: Nothing: A Portrait of Insomnia
• Author: Blake Butler
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Genre: Essays, Literary Non-fiction, Memoir
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• 188 Pages •5 x 9"
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An Interview with Blake Butler
10/01/2011
Blake Butler needs no introduction, which means all I need to say here is that the following interview was conducted using Google Docs between August 10, 2009 and October 18, 2009, and it originally appeared in Keyhole Magazine in October 2009. 1. Scorch Atlas MOLLY GAUDRY: Hi Blake. Thanks for doing this. What would you like…
• Book: Scorch Atlas
• Author: Blake Butler
• Publisher: Featherproof
• Genre: Fiction, Flash Fiction, Stories
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• 256 Pages •5.7 x 8.2"
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"My husband believed that I had treated him monstrously. This belief of his couldn't be shaken: his wold world depended on it. It was his story, and lately I have come to hate stories."
Before picking up this issue of Granta, I had never read anything by Rachel Cusk. The contributors’ bios at the end tell me that she has written a memoir, The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy, and a novel, The Bradshaw Variations. However, a quick search on Amazon reveals that she has written many more…
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The Long Line: Why Use It?
08/28/2011
I’m new to C. K. Williams, but I bought his Collected Poems and began with the collection Tar, from 1983, which appears about a quarter of the way into the book. My reason for writing about this collection here is because, lately, I’ve become interested in long-line poems. In many instances while reading Williams’s, I asked…
• Book: Collected Poems of C. K. Williams
• Author: C. K. Williams
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Genre: Long-line poetry, Narrative Poetry, Poetry
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• 38 Pages •6.5 x 5.5"
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Put My Head In Your Lap
07/30/2011
The sixteen short-short stories in Claudia Smith’s “Put Your Head In My Lap” (Future Tense Books, 2009) convey such tenderness it’s difficult not to develop a big-ass lump in my throat, the kind that causes tears to well and fall. This is a collection to read alone, wrapped in a blanket beside a crackling fire,…
• Book: Put Your Head In My Lap
• Author: Claudia Smith
• Publisher: Future Tense
• Genre: Chapbook, Fiction, Flash Fiction
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• ISBN 9780979018831
• 268 Pages •5.5 x 9"
• $15.95
An Interview with Lidia Yuknavitch
06/02/2011
1. WHO IS LIDIA YUKNAVITCH? MOLLY GAUDRY: Hi Lidia, thank you for allowing me to showcase your incredible memoir, The Chronology of Water, as one of The Lit Pub’s inaugural Book of the Month features. I think the first thing a lot of readers would like to know is: Who is Lidia Yuknavitch? Why did…
• Book: The Chronology of Water
• Author: Lidia Yuknavitch
• Publisher: Hawthorne Books
• Genre: LGBTQ, Memoir