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About Joan Silber
Joan Silber is the author of three previous books. She won the PEN/Hemingway Award for her first novel, HOUSEHOLD WORDS, and has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her short fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Ploughshares, the Paris Review, and other magazines. She lives in New York City and teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College.
 
Awards
National Book Award for Fiction Best Collection nominee (2004) : Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories


Joan Silber recommends
Tales from the Town of Widows & Chronicles From the Town of Men
Tales from the Town of Widows & Chronicles From the Town of Men (2007)
James Cañón
"Like his villagers, James Cañón has built a new world on an old - a realigned literary landscape, with new sex roles, new stubbornness, new glory, and new wreckage. A much-loved tradition of Colombian fiction has been gorgeously re-imagined."
The Edge of Eden
The Edge of Eden (2009)
Helen Benedict
"A wonderful novel and a true page-turner, a vivid story."
What You See in the Dark
What You See in the Dark (2011)
Manuel Muñoz
"How beautifully the pieces of this book fit together, and how radically original it is."
I Knew You'd Be Lovely
I Knew You'd Be Lovely (2011)
Alethea Black
"What smart, memorable, inventive stories these are - skilled, insightful, full of heart."



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