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The Monster at Our Backs: “Why do we write the books we do?”
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Five Books Making News This Week: Madness, Monkeys, and Fairytales: Alexander Maksik, Francine Prose, Marisa Silver, and more
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Marisa Silver on “Little Nothing,” her novel about a girl born a dwarf who shifts shape to survive
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The 14 New Books You Should Be Reading This Fall includes Little Nothing
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In Marisa Silver’s Little Nothing (Blue Rider Press), an ugly young dwarf girl transforms first into a beauty, then into a tall woman, then into a wolf. We talk about metamorphosis and how the depths of the psyche intersects with the inner structure of fairy tales. Little Nothing is a novel that risks being a…
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Sloane Crosley’s Favorite Fall 2016 Books: Magic and misinformation meet in Marisa Silver’s Little Nothing
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Little Nothing included in Read It Forward’s September Favorite Reads
Read MoreOprah: Fall Book Picks
25 Books to Read This Fall “A provocative original fairy tale about the persecution and salvation of Pavla, a girl scorned by her village for her dwarfism.”
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20 New Books You’ll Need For Your Shelf In Fall 2016 “In the register of a folk tale, Marisa Silver’s novel recounts the life of Pavla, a much-wanted child born to Czech peasants at the turn of the 20th century. Pavla becomes a beautiful girl, but she never grows, and her parents realize she was…
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Little Nothing Author Marisa Silver: ‘We All Turn Our Backs on Difference’
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