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Kathleen Rooney
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…is the number of poems that we wrote while doing Poems While You Wait at the Intuit Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in honor of the opening of their year-long Henry Darger celebration, starting with Henry Darger: Author/Artist… …for such people as these… …amid such art as this… Thanks so much to Intuit for […]
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Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
— published 2017 — 7 editions |
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Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object
— published 2009 — 2 editions |
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Robinson Alone
— published 2012 |
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For You, for You I am Trilling These Songs
— published 2009 — 4 editions |
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O, Democracy!
— published 2014 — 3 editions |
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Oneiromance
by Kathleen Rooney (Goodreads Author), Patty Seyburn — published 2008 |
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Reading with Oprah: The Book Club that Changed America
— published 2005 — 2 editions |
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After Robinson Has Gone
— published 2011 |
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Winter 2017 St. Martin's First Sampler
by Kathleen Rooney (Goodreads Author), Jay Baron Nicorvo (Goodreads Author), Jessica Strawser (Goodreads Author) — 2 editions |
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30 Under 30: An Anthology of Innovative Fiction by Younger Writers
by Blake Butler , Lily Hoang , Ryan Call — published 2011 — 2 editions |
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"This book is just a great story. There is no climactic moment or plot twist and that is okay! In fact, it is quite brilliant. So often it seems as though books are written just to squeeze as many characters and twists into 300 pages as will confus..."
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"I absolutely adored this book. What a lovely stroll with a charming character. And such a timely reminder that we can't judge a person by appearances. "
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"This wasn’t the book I wanted to read by Kathleen Rooney. I wanted to read her other one, a new novel with a beautiful cover featuring a walking protagonist, which is one of my things (I have a whole shelf here on walking). But this was the one th..."
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“I thought at times that poetry might be an elegant way of screaming.”
― Kathleen Rooney, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
― Kathleen Rooney, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“The point of living in the world is just to stay interested.”
― Kathleen Rooney, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
― Kathleen Rooney, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
“If there are to be rules, they must be articulable and defensible, like etiquette. I do not do anything simply because my family did it. I do things because they make sense, and because they are elegant.”
― Kathleen Rooney, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
― Kathleen Rooney, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
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Dean
Dec 13, 2014 10:55PM
Thank you for being my friend Kathleen :))).
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Thank you for the friends add, Kathleen. Much success and good reads to you. Have a great week.Ed Lynskey
Author, PELHAM FELL HERE
