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Ander Monson

Born

Houghton, MI

Website

http://otherelectricities.com/

Twitter

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Genre

Nonfiction, Contemporary, Fiction

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Ander Monson is the author of Vanishing Point; Neck Deep and Other Predicaments, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize; the novel Other Electricities; and the poetry collections Vacationland and The Available World. He lives and teaches in Arizona and edits the magazine DIAGRAM.

Although Ander is a proud graduate of Knox College, he also received advanced degrees from Iowa State and the University of Alabama.

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Ander Monson’s books

Average rating: 3.81 · 3,396 ratings · 554 reviews · 29 distinct works • Similar authors

	Other Electricities 4.10 avg rating — 370 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letter to a Future Lover: Marginalia, Errata, Secrets, Inscriptions, and Other Ephemera Found in Libraries 3.08 avg rating — 363 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Neck Deep and Other Predicaments: Essays 3.95 avg rating — 271 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Predator: A Memoir, a Movie, an Obsession 3.92 avg rating — 213 ratings — published 2022 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir 3.61 avg rating — 214 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vacationland 3.80 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gnome Stories 3.08 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Will Take the Answer: Essays 3.68 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Available World: Poems 3.71 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How We Speak to One Another by Ander Monson (Editor), Craig Reinbold (Editor) 3.71 avg rating — 34 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“To be alive is to be dizzy and not to know exactly where to go.”
― Ander Monson

tags: alive, confusion, dizziness, life, living, mazes

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“I am drawn mostly, insistently to the human voice. How powerful and necessary the solo voice, the experience of being someone, something else for a little while. This is and will remain literature’s killer app, the thing most impervious to threat by everything that’s not the word.”
― Ander Monson

tags: books, literature, stories, storytelling, writing, written-word

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“We are all in wires, eventually, reduced to what we said, or didn't say, and what we wrote or didn't write, who loved or didn't love, or loved and lost and never told it except for writing in or to a book. We are all discarded, discordant, confusingly, and so I salute your bravery, book inscriber. Your heart is big enough for both of us, so that there is no room for mockery in me. Anyone willing to strip themselves this bare this fast this way deserves our breathlessness and our hearts' attention. Let's spend an hour, then longer, in contemplation. If you open, open all the way, or as much as you can bear, or else there's nothing here at all.”
― Ander Monson

tags: loss, love, marginalia, writing

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Polls

What should we read for the inaugural Graywolf Press Book Club? The winning book will be announced on April 14th and the first Graywolf Press Book Club will begin April 15th!

Check out the group's bookshelf for more information on these titles.

How to Escape from a Leper Colony: A Novella and Stories by Tiphanie Yanique

7 votes 46.7%

Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto: A Novel by Maile Chapman

3 votes 20.0%

Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir by Ander Monson

3 votes 20.0%

Ghosts of Wyoming: Stories by Alyson Hagy

1 vote 6.7%

Obabakoak by Bernardo Atxaga

1 vote 6.7%

15 total votes

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