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Ron Currie Jr.

Ron Currie, Jr., took his place as one of America's freshest young literary voices with his acclaimed debut collection, "God Is Dead," which won the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award. show more

Ron Currie, Jr., took his place as one of America's freshest young literary voices with his acclaimed debut collection, "God Is Dead," which won the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award.

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Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles - Ron Currie Jr.

xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths - Kate Bernheimer, Laura van den Berg, Ron Currie Jr., Anthony Marra, Dawn Raffel, Maile Meloy, Willy Vlautin, Gina Ochsner, Madeline Miller, Manuel Muñoz, Benjamin Percy, Edith Pearlman, Joy Williams, Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud, Victor LaValle, Ben Loory, Elizabeth Mc

The One-Eyed Man - Ron Currie Jr.

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Everything Matters! - Ron Currie Jr., Abby Craden, Mark Deakins, Lincoln Hoppe

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bobsburgers23 rated it

6 years ago

text Everything Matters!

I re-read this book because I remembered really enjoying it. I still enjoyed it, just saw it a little differently, and at this point in my life it reminds me of a lot of the growing up I had to do when I read it the first time.

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Kate Says: "Reading Is Fun!" rated it

10 years ago

text I Did Not Like This Book, Not One Bit

Let me see if I can explain why: 1.) It took me way too long to read. 2.) It bounced all over the place and I couldn't understand where the heck I was half the time. 3.) There were no chapters, just spaces and text, so no organization at all. WTF 4.) It was trying way to hard to be modern and fail...

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Chris' Fish Place rated it

10 years ago

text First collection is better

hs This collection is not as good as the previous collection, though it does have slightly more international feel (several stories are translations). Despite the title, there is more than Greek mythology in play here as well. Perhaps because it is sadder, the term that Bernheimer us...

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JeffreyParis rated it

11 years ago

text Not quite everything, actually.

Nearing the end of Everything Matters!, I went to the bookstore and bought a copy of Great Jones Street. Books like Everything Matters! (and other recent "breakthroughs" like Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, Swamplandia!, and The Night Circus) make me wonder whether I should really bother trying to...

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