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BILL ROORBACH's newest novels are The Remedy for Love and the bestselling Life Among Giants, both from Algonquin Books. LIFE AMONG GIANTS is in development at HBO for a multi-year drama series. TEMPLE STREAM, winner of the Maine Prize for nonfiction, is about to be reissued in a quality paperback by Down East Books. His other books include the Flannery O'Connor Prize and O. Henry Prize winner BIG BEND, just reissued by The University of Georgia Press, and the classic novel of competitive skiing and suppressed trauma, THE SMALLEST COLOR. Other nonfiction books include INTO WOODS: ESSAYS, and the romantic memoir SUMMERS WITH JULIET. His famous craft book, WRITING LIFE STORIES: Making Memories into Memoir, Ideas into Essays, and Life into Literature, is used in writing programs around the world. His short work, both fiction and nonfiction, has been published in Harper's, Orion, The Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, The New York Times Magazine, Granta, New York, and dozens of other great places.
Awards: O'Connor (2001) see all
Genres: Literary Fiction
Novels
The Smallest Color (2001)
Life Among Giants (2012)
The Remedy for Love (2014)
Lucky Turtle (2022)
Beep (2024)
Life Among Giants (2012)
The Remedy for Love (2014)
Lucky Turtle (2022)
Beep (2024)
Collections
Novellas and Short Stories
Non fiction show
Books containing stories by Bill Roorbach
Dedicated to the People of Darfur (2009)
Writings on Fear, Risk, and Hope
edited by
Jennifer Reynolds and Luke Reynolds
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Bill Roorbach recommends
Pete and Alice in Maine (2023)
Caitlin Shetterly
"This beautifully crafted portrait of a marriage, with its backdrop of exquisite nature and troubling winds, kids balanced like boulders about to roll, is as harrowing as any thriller, and tender, too, even sweet, a couple of big-city hearts bound together despite all. And it's a lot, this country life, these old wounds, this new one, the distance between worlds, this fateful question: who are we when we're not who we were? Bring a flashlight, because Pete and Alice in Maine will keep you up asking all night."
Because I Loved You (2023)
Donnaldson Brown
"Cal and Leni first fall in love with horses, then with each other, a love that not even Donnaldson Brown's beautifully rendered North Texas landscapes can contain. Because they've other loves, as well, mathematics for Cal, art for Leni, which conflict with the expectations of their families and their town.There are other secrets, too, one of them buried so deep under Leni's family tree that perhaps it should remain, but it can't, not if Leni is to be free. Because I Loved You is deeply affecting, swooningly romantic, hard as diamonds, too: dreams don't always add up, and trouble can sometimes be our friend."
Andrea Hoffman Goes All In (2022)
Diane Cohen Schneider
"This book is going to take you on a fabulous '80s adventure in the heart of the go-go Wall Street era . . . . Schneider brings us the financial world we never knew, a world she knows well, her own world of money, love, ambition, excess, and success, reimagined. By turns hilarious, poignant, deep, charming, and brutal - and always true - Andrea Hoffman will keep you guessing, and keep you up all night."
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