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# Marisa Silver

The Official Site of Author Marisa Silver

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## Posts

- [WCBE - Columbus Ohio](https://marisasilver.com/wcbe-columbus-ohio/) - Marisa Silver - Sometimes you have to change: In the interview, Marisa Silver talks about her time in Ohio (think overcast skies), her background working in Hollywood, and how she became a writer.
- [Aswat Interview](https://marisasilver.com/aswat-interview/) - Meet Marisa Silver: The American Novelist Who Loves Naguib Mahfouz and The Arabian Nights
- [Midwestern Gothic](https://marisasilver.com/midwestern-gothic/) - Interview in Midwestern Gothic about Little Nothing
- [Huffington Post: Books By Women](https://marisasilver.com/huffington-post-books-by-women/) - Little Nothing included on the list of 23 Recent Books By Women You Should Read ASAP
- [Fernanda Eberstadt](https://marisasilver.com/fernanda-eberstadt/) - Interview with Fernanda Eberstadt about Little Nothing
- [New York Times - Sunday Book Review](https://marisasilver.com/new-york-times-sunday-book-review/) - There were things my husband brought to the marriage that had to be gotten rid of. The grandfatherly forest green recliner. Certain blocky-looking shirts bought for him by his mother. The occasional phone call from an old girlfriend. There was one item that was a keeper, though, a volume called “Plotto: The Master Book of
- [Angel's Flight Literary West](https://marisasilver.com/angels-flight-literary-west/) - Excerpt from Little Nothing and interview with Marisa Silver
- [Coast Magazine](https://marisasilver.com/coast-magazine/) - Shelf Awareness: New and notable books in the literary landscape
- [The Rumpus Mini-Interview](https://marisasilver.com/the-rumpus-mini-interview/) - The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #59: Marisa Silver
- [KPFA - Radio Wolinsky](https://marisasilver.com/kpfa-radio-wolinsky/) - Marisa Silver - Little Nothing: In the interview, Marisa Silver talks about the relationship between the film-making and novel-writing, the role of themes in her work, and the nature of her artistic choices.
- [LA Review of Books](https://marisasilver.com/larb-monster/) - The Monster at Our Backs: "Why do we write the books we do?"
- [Literary Hub](https://marisasilver.com/literary-hub/) - Five Books Making News This Week: Madness, Monkeys, and Fairytales: Alexander Maksik, Francine Prose, Marisa Silver, and more
- [The National Book Review: Q&A](https://marisasilver.com/national-book-review/) - Marisa Silver on "Little Nothing," her novel about a girl born a dwarf who shifts shape to survive
- [Electric Lit: Interview](https://marisasilver.com/electric-lit-interview/) - Marisa Silver on Fables, Torture, and Reading the Obituaries: an interview with the author of Little Nothing
- [Unbound Worlds: Interview](https://marisasilver.com/unbound-worlds-interview/) - Little Nothing Author Marisa Silver: ‘We All Turn Our Backs on Difference’
- [Read It Forward's Favorite Reads of September](https://marisasilver.com/read-it-forward-favorite/) - Little Nothing included in Read It Forward's September Favorite Reads
- [KCRW Bookworm Interview](https://marisasilver.com/kcrw-bookworm-interview/) - 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
- [Forward](https://marisasilver.com/forward-14-books/) - The 14 New Books You Should Be Reading This Fall includes Little Nothing
- [Vanity Fair](https://marisasilver.com/vanity-fair/) - Sloane Crosley's Favorite Fall 2016 Books: Magic and misinformation meet in Marisa Silver’s Little Nothing
- [Oprah: Fall Book Picks](https://marisasilver.com/oprah-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."
- [Huffington Post: Fall Book Picks](https://marisasilver.com/huffington-post-fall-book-picks/) - 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
- [Google Play: Small Bites](https://marisasilver.com/google-play-small-bites/) - Marisa Silver shares her favorite short novels - immersive books you can read in one sitting
- [Signature Reads: Interview](https://marisasilver.com/signature-reads-interview/) - Marisa Silver on 5 Unconventional Works of Fiction that Inspire Her
- [Weird Sister: Interview](https://marisasilver.com/weird-sister-interview/) - Identity is a Fickle Thing: An Interview with Marisa Silver
- [Little Nothing Quote #14](https://marisasilver.com/wolves-dont-eat-people/) - "Anyway, wolves don't eat people."
- [Little Nothing Quote #13](https://marisasilver.com/bravery-has-no-smell/) - "'I always find it interesting that bravery has no smell,' the tracker says."
- [Caroline Leavitt: Interview](https://marisasilver.com/caroline-leavitt-interview-2/) - Marisa Silver talks to Caroline Leavitt about transformation, wandering around thinking about what to write, scandal, magic, fairytales, and her brilliant new novel, LITTLE NOTHING
- [The Aboutness: An Interview with Marisa Silver](https://marisasilver.com/the-aboutness-an-interview-with-marisa-silver/) - LA Review of Books - Eleanor Duke interviews Marisa Silver
- [The New Yorker: Page Turner](https://marisasilver.com/the-new-yorker-page-turner/) - Kissing the Dead - an essay by Marisa Silver
- [Powell's Books Blog](https://marisasilver.com/powells-books-blog/) - Murders, Ballads, Folktales, and Unsolvable Mysteries - an essay by Marisa Silver
- [Little Nothing Quote #12](https://marisasilver.com/wolves-are-not-interested/) - "'Wolves are not interested in us,' he tells Danilo as they walk."
- [Little Nothing Quote #11](https://marisasilver.com/he-starts/) - "He starts toward her and for a moment, she forgets who she is."
- [Little Nothing Quote #10](https://marisasilver.com/giant-arm/) - "Here is my giant arm, she seemed to be saying, allowing a lucky patron to reach out a finger and set the fat into pendulous motion. Here is my mighty thigh."
- [Little Nothing Quote #9](https://marisasilver.com/lonely/) - "And Pavla cries, 'I'm not dead, but I'm so lonely!'"
- [Little Nothing Quote #8](https://marisasilver.com/dont-resist/) - "'Don't resist, my darling girl,' he says as a shovelful of dirt rains down on her shoulders."
- [Little Nothing Quote #7](https://marisasilver.com/equation/) - "Pavla is a sentence they cannot finish, an equation they cannot solve"
- [Little Nothing Quote #6](https://marisasilver.com/perfect-miniature/) - "There is something enticing and discomfiting about viewing one's life in perfect miniature."
- [Little Nothing Quote #4](https://marisasilver.com/picture-a-flower/) - "Picture a flower."
- [Little Nothing Quote #5](https://marisasilver.com/plumbing/) - "'His clients regard plumbing as a sin-exonerating miracle, a daily confession"
- [Little Nothing Quote #3](https://marisasilver.com/your-guilt/) - "'Your guilt doesn't do my any good,' she says."
- [Little Nothing Quote #2](https://marisasilver.com/sewn-together/) - "She looks like a rag doll sewn together from cast-off parts."
- [Author Marisa Silver wants to be ALONE WITH YOU](https://marisasilver.com/short-stories-what-do-writers-love-about-them/) - by Anis Shivani, The Huffington Post
- [Short Stories: What Do Writers Love About Them?](https://marisasilver.com/short-stories-what-do-writers-love-about-them-2/) - "We continue our series on the short story, asking writers how they compare writing short stories to writing novels, the demands the story makes on the reader compared to the novel, how the writers chart their own development as story writers, and what can be done to strengthen the art of the story in America."
- [Marisa Silver: Fiction Short and Long](https://marisasilver.com/marisa-silver-fiction-short-and-long/) - Writers Voice spends the hour with fiction writer Marisa Silver, talking about the craft of writing, her new collection of short stories Alone With You and her 2008 novel, The God of War.
- [BookBrowse: An Interview with Marisa Silver](https://marisasilver.com/bookbrowse-an-interview-with-marisa-silver/) - BJ Hegedus chats with Marisa Silver about Alone With You
- [Los Angeles Times: A fertile moonscape for a writer's fiction](https://marisasilver.com/los-angeles-times-a-fertile-moonscape-for-a-writers-fiction/) - "Marisa Silver's resilient characters find reasons to believe just off the Salton Sea's barren shores." read the article by Marc Weingarten
- [Publisher's Weekly: Silver Linings](https://marisasilver.com/publishers-weekly-silver-linings/) - "The stories in Alone with You are intensely personal characterizations of modern life" read the article by Wendy Werris
- [The Urban Muse: Guest Post](https://marisasilver.com/the-urban-muse-guest-post/) - "Writing the Novel or Short Story" by Marisa Silver
- [Largehearted Boy: Book Notes for Alone With You](https://marisasilver.com/largehearted-boy-book-notes/) - In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.
- [The Elegant Variation: Three Minute Interview](https://marisasilver.com/the-elegant-variation-three-minute-interview/) - "a quasi-regular feature in which the first three questions are customized and the remaining seven are the same for all comers" read the interview
- [Ecotone](https://marisasilver.com/ecotone/) - The Ecotone interview with Marisa Silver, by Joanna Mulder, discussing the two-sided nature of intimacy, the difference between fiction writing and screenwriting, and the need for a writer to be nonjudgmental in order to truly inhabit her character
- [Novel Rocket: How to Lose Your Way and Find Your Story](https://marisasilver.com/novel-rocket-how-to-lose-your-way-and-find-your-story/) - read the post by Marisa Silver
- [ALOUD at the Los Angeles Public Library](https://marisasilver.com/aloud-at-the-los-angeles-public-library/) - Marisa Silver in conversation with poet and memoirist Meghan O'Rourke
- [Dinner Party Download: Alone With You](https://marisasilver.com/dinner-party-download-alone-with-you/) - Marisa tells a joke on NPR, then discusses her writing, her dark past as a filmmaker, and her attendance at an exorcism.
- [Dinner Party Download: Mary Coin](https://marisasilver.com/dinner-party-download-mary-coin/) - Marisa reads from her novel Mary Coin
- [Hammer Museum: Some Favorite Writers](https://marisasilver.com/hammer-museum-some-favorite-writers/) - Marisa Silver reads her story "Three Girls" at the Hammer Museum, followed by an interview with author Mona Simpson.
- [The Oregonian: Bookmarks](https://marisasilver.com/the-oregonian-bookmarks/) - Interview: Marisa Silver's novel inspired by Dorothea Lange's famous photo
- [Barnes and Noble](https://marisasilver.com/barnes-and-noble/) - "You can stare at that photo of Florence Owens Thompson, taken by Dorothea Lange in 1936, for hours. It’s like a conversation that way." Working Woman: An Interview with Marisa Silver
- [The Daily Beast](https://marisasilver.com/the-daily-beast/) - Interview: The Woman Behind Dorothea Lange's 'Migrant Mother'
- [Publisher's Weekly: Subject to Interpretation](https://marisasilver.com/publishers-weekly-subject-to-interpretation/) - "For her third novel, Mary Coin, Marisa Silver crafted a story based on Dorothea Lange’s now-iconic Depression-era photo “Migrant Mother,” weaving three lives together over a 90-year span while exploring the interplay of personal relationships and documentary objects." Publisher's Weekly talks with Marisa Silver about Mary Coin
- [Caroline Leavitt: Interview](https://marisasilver.com/caroline-leavitt-interview/) - Marisa Silver talks to Caroline Leavitt about Mary Coin, Dorothea Lange, drinking lots of tea, whether or not art can be immoral, and so much more
- [Los Angeles Review of Books: An Interview with Marisa Silver](https://marisasilver.com/los-angeles-review-of-books-an-interview-with-marisa-silver/) - Marisa Silver speaks with David Ulin, book critic at the Los Angeles Times, about her latest, Mary Coin, at Skylight Books
- [KCRW: Bookworm](https://marisasilver.com/kcrw-bookworm/) - Michael Silverblatt interviews Marisa Silver about Mary Coin on the radio program Bookworm
- [Writer's Voice: Podcast](https://marisasilver.com/writers-voice-podcast/) - Francesca Rheannon of Writer's Voice talks to Marisa Silver about Mary Coin
- [Midwestern Gothic: Interview](https://marisasilver.com/midwestern-gothic-interview/) - Marisa Silver talks with Midwestern Gothic about her time in the Midwest, childhood memories, her film career, and more
- [Huffington Post: Books](https://marisasilver.com/huffington-post-books/) - Marisa Silver writes about Unveiling the Mystery of the "Migrant Mother" Photo
- [One City, One Book](https://marisasilver.com/one-city-one-book/) - Thousand Oaks reads Mary Coin by Marisa Silver
- [No Direction Home Reading Guide](https://marisasilver.com/no-direction-home-reading-guide/) - Download a printable PDF reading guide for use in your book club or reading group
- [The God of War Reading Guide](https://marisasilver.com/the-god-of-war-reading-guide/) - Download a printable PDF reading guide for use in your book club or reading group
- [Mary Coin Reading Guide](https://marisasilver.com/mary-coin-reading-guide/) - Download a printable PDF reading guide for use in your book club or reading group
- [PopMatters: The Deconstruction Zone](https://marisasilver.com/popmatters-the-deconstruction-zone/) - "The God of War...is a heart-wrenching parable for the rudderless modern world cloaked as an L.A. novel." Reinventing the Southern California Novel: Marisa Silver's The God of War
- [Los Angeles Review of Books on KCRW](https://marisasilver.com/los-angeles-review-of-books-on-kcrw/) - Percival Everett, Marisa Silver, and Alex Espinoza all write about Los Angeles and have deep ties to Southern California Three Great Novels from Local Writers
- [Largehearted Boy: Book Notes for Mary Coin](https://marisasilver.com/largehearted-boy-book-notes-for-mary-coin/) - In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.
- [National Book Critics Circle: Critical Mass](https://marisasilver.com/national-book-critics-circle-critical-mass/) - NBCC Critical Mass highlights Mary Coin
- [Oprah's Book Club 2.0](https://marisasilver.com/oprahs-book-club-2-0/) - The Best Lines from New Books: Mary Coin
- [USA Today: Books](https://marisasilver.com/usa-today-books/) - New and Noteworthy - Mary Coin
- [The Airship Daily: 6 March Book Releases](https://marisasilver.com/the-airship-daily-6-march-book-releases/) - ... and their Girl Scout Cookie Companions "We've paired each signature cookie with an upcoming March release"
- [The Millions: Most Anticipated](https://marisasilver.com/the-millions-most-anticipated/) - The Great 2013 Book Preview includes Mary Coin
- [Booktalk Nation: In Conversation](https://marisasilver.com/booktalk-nation-in-conversation/) - Marisa Silver in conversation with critic Bethanne Patrick about Mary Coin on Booktalk Nation, hosted by Skylight Books
- [The Blouse That Changed My Life](https://marisasilver.com/the-blouse-that-changed-my-life/) - How I Learned to Dress When Femininity Was Up for Grabs - Marisa Silver, Elle Magazine
- [Little Nothing Quote #1](https://marisasilver.com/the-girls-call-her/) - "The girls call her Little Nothing as though there are descending versions of nothingness."

## Pages

- [Home](https://marisasilver.com/) - "An astounding achievement." Megha Majumdar "As smart and unsentimental as its two clashing protagonists, At Last charts a rich, fascinating landscape that has been largely ignored by contemporary fiction." Jennifer Egan "Here's the magic of Marisa Silver's books: they capture, beautifully, not only entire lives but the complex histories that pulse through our country. At
- [At Last](https://marisasilver.com/books/at-last/) - Information about the novel At Last by Marisa Silver
- [The Mysteries](https://marisasilver.com/books/the-mysteries/) - Information about the novel The Mysteries by Marisa Silver
- [Little Nothing](https://marisasilver.com/books/little-nothing/) - Information about the novel Little Nothing by Marisa Silver.
- [Mary Coin](https://marisasilver.com/books/mary-coin/) - Information about the New York Times bestselling novel Mary Coin by author Marisa Silver.
- [Alone With You](https://marisasilver.com/books/alone-with-you/) - Information about the short story collection Alone With You by author Marisa Silver.
- [Books](https://marisasilver.com/books/) - Books by the author Marisa Silver
- [Babe in Paradise](https://marisasilver.com/books/babe-in-paradise/) - Information about the short story collection Babe in Paradise by author Marisa Silver.
- [No Direction Home](https://marisasilver.com/books/no-direction-home/) - Information about the novel No Direction Home by author Marisa Silver.
- [The God of War](https://marisasilver.com/books/the-god-of-war/) - Information about the novel The God of War by author Marisa Silver.

## Events

- [Cuyahoga County Public Library Beachwood Branch](https://marisasilver.com/event/cuyahoga-county-public-library-beachwood-branch/)
- [Glencoe Public Library](https://marisasilver.com/event/glencoe-public-library/)
- [Soroptimist International of Brea/La Habra Authors Brunch](https://marisasilver.com/event/soroptimist-international-of-brea-la-habra-authors-brunch/)
- [Word Theater](https://marisasilver.com/event/word-theater/)
- [Del Mar Community Connections](https://marisasilver.com/event/del-mar-community-connections/)
- [Duxbury Senior Center](https://marisasilver.com/event/duxbury-senior-center/)
- [Newtonville Books](https://marisasilver.com/event/newtonville-books/)
- [Barrett Bookstore](https://marisasilver.com/event/barrett-bookstore/)
- [Darvill's Book Store](https://marisasilver.com/event/darvills-book-store/)
- [McNally Jackson at Marlton Hotel](https://marisasilver.com/event/mcnally-jackson-at-marlton-hotel/)
- [AT LAST Tour Schedule TBA](https://marisasilver.com/event/at-last-tour-schedule-tba/)
- [Literary Affairs](https://marisasilver.com/event/literary-affairs/) - Books & Bathrobes event
- [Syosset Public Library](https://marisasilver.com/event/syosset-public-library/)
- [The Book Cellar](https://marisasilver.com/event/the-book-cellar/) - In conversation with Amity Gaige and Sarah Shun-lien Bynum moderating
- [Skylight Books](https://marisasilver.com/event/skylight-books/) - In conversation with Laura van den Berg
- [Left Bank Books](https://marisasilver.com/event/left-bank-books/) - In conversation with Charlie Brennan of KMOX
- [Literati Bookstore](https://marisasilver.com/event/literati-bookstore/) - In conversation with Meg Wolitzer
- [Politics & Prose](https://marisasilver.com/event/politics-prose/) - In conversation with Lauren Groff
- [NYPL Cullman Center](https://marisasilver.com/event/nypl-cullman-center/) - In conversation with Jennifer Egan

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