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Amy Hempel
(b.1951)Amy Hempel is an American short story writer, journalist, and university professor at Brooklyn College. Hempel was a former student of Gordon Lish, who eventually helped her publish her first collection of short stories. Hempel has been published in Harper's, Vanity Fair, GQ, and Bomb. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as the Ambassador Book Award in 2007, the Rea Award for the Short Story in 2008, and the Pen/Malamud Award for short fiction in 2009.
Awards: PEN (2009) see all
Genres: Literary Fiction
Collections
Reasons to Live (1985)
At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom (1990)
Tumble Home (1996)
The Dog of the Marriage (2005)
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel (2006)
Sing to It (2019)
At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom (1990)
Tumble Home (1996)
The Dog of the Marriage (2005)
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel (2006)
Sing to It (2019)
Anthologies edited
Series contributed to
Non fiction show
Books containing stories by Amy Hempel
Life Is Short - Art Is Shorter (2015)
In Praise of Brevity
edited by
Elizabeth Cooperman and David Shields
Fakes (2012)
An Anthology of Pseudo-interviews, Faux-lectures, Quasi-letters,
edited by
David Shields and Matthew Vollmer
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The Hearing Test (2024)
Eliza Barry Callahan
"In this striking novel, 'controlled panic' gives way to a cool remove when a young artist suddenly goes deaf. Silence, for her, 'is dressed as an injury,' but it is also the point of entry into the lives of other creators, and philosophers. Elegant and startling, The Hearing Test is a contemplative gem."
Every Drop is a Man's Nightmare (2023)
Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
"Lyrical collisions of superstition, folktales, and modern Hawaiian culture saving itself in the face of cliches. Desire and confusion are rarely far apart in these powerful coming-of-age stories that prove it is possible to be many things, all the time, all at once."
The Tip Line (2023)
Vanessa Cuti
"A young woman who claims she only wants to find a husband soon admits, 'Maybe I wanted to see what I was capable of.' This taut erotic thriller tests a woman's trust of a man she is in thrall to. Cinematic, visceral, and truly unnerving, The Tip Line conjures increasingly difficult feats of denial in the service of love."
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