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by Lee Upton

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A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2014

Best New Fiction of May 2014, Typographical Era

Alternately chilling, funny, devastating, and hopeful, these 17 stories introduce us to a theater critic who winds up in a hot tub with the actress he routinely savages in reviews; a biographer who struggles to discover why a novelist stopped writing; a student who contends with her predatory professor; and the startling scenario of the last satyr meeting his last woman.

Writer-in-residence and a professor of English at Lafayette College, Lee Upton is author of twelve books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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  • Title The Tao of Humiliation
  • Author Lee Upton
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 232
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher BOA Editions
  • Publication date 2014-05-13
  • ISBN 9781938160325 / 1938160320
  • Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.7 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2013044056
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.54

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Citations

  • Booklist, 04/01/2014, Page 22
  • Kirkus Best Fiction, 11/15/2014, Page 49
  • Kirkus Reviews, 04/15/2014, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 09/15/2014, Page 73
  • New York Times Book Review, 07/27/2014, Page 30
  • Publishers Weekly, 03/31/2014, Page 0

About the author

Lee Upton is the author of twelve other books, including the novella The Guide to the Flying Island, and a collection of essays about writing, Swallowing the Sea: On Writing & Ambition Boredom Purity & Secrecy. Her poetry has appeared in editions of The Best American Poetry and has been included in numerous anthologies as well as in The New Republic, American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, Harvard Review, New England Review, Poetry, and other magazines. More than three dozen of her short stories have been published, appearing in such journals as Antioch Review, Epoch, Short Fiction (England), Redivider, Northwest Review, Shenandoah, and Ascent. She has published more than fifty articles and essays about literature. Her awards include: the Lyric Poetry Award and The Writer/Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America; the Pushcart Prize; the National Poetry Series Award; the Georgia Contemporary Poetry Series Award; the BOA Short Fiction Prize; and the Mary Louise VanArtsdalen Prize for Scholarship, the Marquis Teaching Award, and the Jones Faculty Lecture Award at Lafayette College, where she is the Writer-in-Residence and a professor of English.
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