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Binnie Kirshenbaum


USA flag (b.1964)

Binnie Kirshenbaum is the author of two short story collections and five novels. She is a professor of fiction writing at the Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts and lives with her husband in New York City.
 
New and upcoming books
March 2025

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Counting Backwards
 
Novels
   Short Subject (1989)
   On Mermaid Avenue (1992)
   A Disturbance in One Place (1994)
   Pure Poetry (2000)
   Hester Among the Ruins (2002)
   An Almost Perfect Moment (2004)
   The Scenic Route (2009)
   Rabbits for Food (2019)
   Counting Backwards (2025)
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The Cobra and the Key (2023)
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"Hilarious as it is heartbreaking, The Cobra and the Key is an ingenious and wildly inventive gem. I adored this book."
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The Four Humors (2021)
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"Set in a stunning evocation of contemporary Turkey, The Four Humors is spellbinding. With sensitivity and insight, Mina Seçkin weaves the entanglements of romantic love and the complexities of familial love throughout this exploration of cultural identity. This debut novel is one for our time."
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If I Had Your Face (2020)
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"With graceful precision, unflinching honesty, and intimate compassion, Frances Cha writes, in exacting detail, of the desperation and dreams of five young women in modern-day Korea. . . . A haunting novel of intelligence and sensitivity."

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