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My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen. — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)

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Aimee Bender
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 28
Novelist
Writer
the United States of America
Inside
Amen
Stories
Rubber
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Rope
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Love
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Creatures
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Glen Hirshberg's stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content -- the stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader's brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing. It's a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg's storytelling skills in American Morons.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
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I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn't sustain my interest.
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That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone. This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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But I loved George in part because he believed me because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.
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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.
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I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
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