Michelle LatiolaisProfessor, English MFA Programs in Writing, English |
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Research Interests |
Creative Writing; Fiction; Contemporary Literature | |
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Academic Distinctions | Gold Medal, Commonwealth Club of California | |
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 A Proper KnowledgeBellevue Literary Press, May 2008 "Autism and grief acquire powerful and enigmatic reality as the reader turns the pages of A Proper Knowledge. To invoke one of its own metaphors, this novel is a refuge, not because it elides trauma or sorrow, but because it confronts them with gallant and unswerving clarity. A thousand things are noticed in this novel that you won't have seen in fiction before. Don't be fooled: for all the delicacy of its language this is a work of burning ferocity." - Elizabeth Tallent "An elegant and engaging novel of beauty and pain, and how one will often reveal the other. Precise, insightful, lovely." - Aimee Bender "In prose shimmering with intelligence and compassion, MIchelle Latiolais dissects the essentials of everyday life to find the heartbeat within. A PROPER KNOWLEDGE reveals an author with that rare eye which is at once both clinical and poetic." - Alice Sebold "The novel counts-in elegant and sometimes elegiac prose-the shadowy and elusive opportunities for redemption." - Ron Carlson |
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Even Now Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990 |
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| Last updated | 09/27/2009 | |