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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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Aimee Bender
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 28
Novelist
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the United States of America
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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...a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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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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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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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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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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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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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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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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