Dawn Raffel's most recent book, The Strange Case of Dr. Couney, was chosen as one of NPR’s best books of 2018. Previous books include a memoir, The Secret Life of Objects; a novel, Carrying the Body; and two story collections, Further Adventures in the Restless Universe and In the Year of Long Division. Her writing has been published in O, The Oprah Magazine, BOMB, New Philosopher, The San Francisco Chronicle, Conjunctions, Black Book, Open City, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, Arts & Letters, The Quarterly, NOON, and numerous other periodicals and anthologies. She currently works as an independent editor for individuals and creative organizations, specializing in memoir, short stories, and narrative nonfiction. She is also a certified yoga instructor and teaches embodied creative writing." /> Dawn Raffel – BIG OTHER
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September 10, 2020 - Archives, Fiction, Reading, Writing

From the Archives: Three Cities, by Dawn Raffel

Happy birthday, Dawn Raffel! Celebrate by reading this fiction we published on January 8, 2020. And by listening to our…

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January 8, 2020January 7, 2020 - Featured, Fiction, Reading, Writing

Three Cities, by Dawn Raffel

(with appreciation for Italo Calvino)   The City of Serena In the beautiful city of Serena, every old woman wears…

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May 2, 2010March 8, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Uncategorized

A Sentence About a Sentence I Love, by Dawn Raffel

“The woman, who is me—why pretend otherwise?—wants to love a man she cannot have.” —The opening salvo of Diane Williams’s…

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