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Emily Barton

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Emily Barton has written three novels so far. Her first, THE TESTAMENT OF YVES GUNDRON, called "blessedly post-ironic, engaging, and heartfelt" by Thomas Pynchon, won the Bard Fiction Prize and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. In reviewing BROOKLAND, Joan Acocella of "The New Yorker" wrote that Barton creates alternate worlds "out of Calvino or Borges." Barton's third novel, THE BOOK OF ESTHER, just hit the shelves in June of 2016. Writing for "The New York Times Book Review," novelist Dara Horn calls it "as addicting as a Jewish 'Game of Thrones.'"

Barton is the recipient of an artist's grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Sustainable Arts Foundation. She l
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Emily Barton Being a fiction writer is one of the last places where you can be a generalist. Or rather, you can become a specialist in any field of knowledge or hu…moreBeing a fiction writer is one of the last places where you can be a generalist. Or rather, you can become a specialist in any field of knowledge or human endeavor—or at least, enough of a specialist to write convincingly about that topic. You just have to dedicate yourself to research, ask the right questions. That's what I love most about writing—that I can study anything my imagination can encompass, and with luck and hard work, help readers to envision and experience it.(less)
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Virginia Woolf
“And since a novel has this correspondence to real life, its values are to some extent those of real life. But it is obvious that the values of women differ very often from the values which have been made by the other sex; naturally this is so. Yet is it the masculine values that prevail. Speaking crudely, football and sport are "important"; the worship of fashion, the buying of clothes "trivial." And these values are inevitably transferred from life to fiction. This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.”
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Emily Barton You guys! I haven't figured out how to link to it from my author page, but PRH is doing a giveaway for 25 advance reader copies of my new novel, THE BOOK OF ESTHER, due out in June! Here's a link:

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