Anthony Varallo

• Oct-2005
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On the verge of maturity--where parents are distant or absent, friendships are often more accidental than deliberate, and restless angst is common--Anthony Varallo’s adolescent protagonists dissect the world, and their place in it, with keen percep...

• Sep-2008
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WINNER OF THE 2008 DRUE HEINZ LITERATURE PRIZE Selected by Scott Turow Feeling distanced from her friends and family, middle-aged divorcée Caitlin Drury is encouraged by her daughter to express her feelings in a diary, but she is hesitant: “I feel...

• Oct-2013
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The characters in Think of Me and I’ll Know, Anthony Varallo’s probing new collection of stories, face moments in which insight comes too late, or proves insufficient, often to humorous effect. The characters approach the edge of learning somethi...

• May-2017
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Winner of the Elixir Press Fiction Award. "Anthony Varallo's Everyone Is There is one of the most beautiful experiments I've ever read. The gods of absurdity--Barthelme and Millhauser--hover over these pages, yet Varallo's voice--its gravity, its in...

• Aug-2019
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Set in the summer of 1979, when America was running out of gas, The Lines tells the story of a family of four -- the mother, the father, the girl, and the boy -- in the first months of a marital separation. Through alternating perspectives, we follow...

• Nov-2023
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The stories in What Did You Do Today? explore the ordinary and the offbeat as if they were one and the same, asking what it’s like to be alive and what makes us human. With warmth, humor, and wonder, these stories suggest that the past is always al...