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Amelia Gray

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Amelia Gray is the author of 4 books.
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In conversation with Amy Stephenson at Midnight Breakfast

Stephenson: This is super interesting to me. I think you’re right: we all think about others’ feelings more or less constantly. Do you think writers, and maybe women, do it even more?

Gray: Well, writers benefit from empathy and women are encouraged culturally to obsessively care for others in ways involving wet wipes. Those are two different conditions, but they obviously inform one another. A little well-chosen selfishness can go a long way in the pursuit of beauty.

(Photo by Meiko Takechi Arquillos)

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Independent Bookstore Day in NYC Saturday, May 2, 2015 / #bookstoredaynyc / #bookstoreday

The first EVER! national holiday for indie bookstores is coming on May 2! 

Over 20 NYC bookstores will be celebrating their first ever national holiday all day long on Saturday, May 2 with special activities, events, author visits, and lots of fun. 

How can you get involved?

  • Visit your local bookstore! (duh.)
  • Check out what’s going on at NYC stores; see how many you can visit in one day!
  • Share pictures, stories, and book stacks with #bookstoredaynyc and #bookstoreday, and we’ll be reposting you from here, all day! And follow us here.
  • Finish the day off right by coming out to our official Afterparty.
  • Help out and get in touch! We (the coalition of NYC stores!) can be reached at info@bookstoredaynyc.com.

Join us at our Afterparty! The day will culminate in a celebratory Afterparty at The POWERHOUSE Arena in DUMBO, hosted by Emma Straub (emmastraub), Jami Attenberg (jamiatt), and Angela Flournoy, with sponsors Tumblr, Book Riot (bookriot), & Lit Hub (thelithub), and beer lovingly provided by Brooklyn Brewery. Free with RSVP to info@bookstoredaynyc.com.

Massive thanks to illustrator & author Brian Floca for generously creating our fantastic #bookstoredaynyc artwork. Posters and postcards will be available in stores soon!

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Gutshot finds Gray at her most vicious and powerful. In these stories, Gray’s characters generate their own chaos; not only do their attempts at good manners fail, they typically crash and burn, devolving into scenes of cathartic violence or complete dissolution of social norms. Gutshot is a testament not only to Gray’s powers, but also to her trust in readers to follow the frenetic pinball momentum of her imagination.

GUTSHOT reviewed by Catherine Carberry

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Amelia Gray interview at Vice

I interviewed Amelia Gray at Vice. You should buy Gutshot NOW NOW NOW!

Amelia Gray is an author I’ve long admired. Her first book, the vignette-comprisedAM/PM, was published by indie mainstay Featherproof Books back in 2009, and established Gray as a truly weird and formidable talent. Gutshot is her fourth book, and her second on Big 5-imprint FSG, following her aptly named novel-in-threats, Threats(several of which VICE featured in 2011). The stories in Gutshot, also aptly named, get at you right in the viscera, full of bodily fluids and strange sights and smells. They often end not with a neat tying-up of the various elements, but as if something exploded, like dynamite breaking down a door.
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Review: 'Gutshot' by Amelia Gray
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Amelia Gray writes ugly, thrilling books. The body-horror tropes in her 2012 novel, "Threats," recalled at times the films of David Cronenberg. "Gutshot," her third collection of stories, pushes even further into literary creepshow territory with an unflinching intimacy that is completely, absorbingly her own. Despite the wound referenced in its title, the violence in "Gutshot" is rarely explosive; rather, it is deliberate, brutal but unrushed, a twisting knife rather than a belly full of lead.

A thoughtful review of Gutshot by Amy Gentry. Much obliged.

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