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Victor LaValle
Victor LaValle is the author of a short-story collection, Slapboxing with Jesus, and two novels, The Ecstatic & Big Machine. His most recent novel, Big Machine, was named a best book of 2009 by Publishers Weekly, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and the Nation. Big... show more

Victor LaValle is the author of a short-story collection, Slapboxing with Jesus, and two novels, The Ecstatic & Big Machine. His most recent novel, Big Machine, was named a best book of 2009 by Publishers Weekly, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and the Nation. Big Machine was awarded the Shirley Jackson Award for best novel, the American Book Award, and the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Other prizes include a Whiting Writers' Award, a USA Ford Fellowship,a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship, and the key to Southeast Queens.
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Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Victor LaValle's Books
The Devil in Silver - Victor LaValle Big Machine - Victor LaValle The Changeling - Victor LaValle 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 Ballad of Black Tom - Victor LaValle The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books - Jeff Martin, C. Max Magee, Kyle Beachy, John Brandon, Sonya Chung, Elizabeth Crane, Rudolph Delson, Rivka Galchen, David Gates, Joshua Gaylord, Lauren Groff, Garth Risk Hallberg, Owen King, Benjamin Kunkel, Reif Larsen, Victor LaValle, Jonathan Lethem, Emily St. John Man The Ecstatic - Victor LaValle Slapboxing with Jesus - Victor LaValle Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond - Bill Campbell, Edward Hall, Junot Díaz, Lauren Beukes, Victor LaValle, Tobias S. Buckell, N.K. Jemisin, Joseph Bruchac, Nisi Shawl, S.P. Somtow, Tade Thompson, Carmen Maria Machado, Tenea D. Johnson Scoot Over, Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology - Donna Jarrell, Sarah Fenske, Lori Gottlieb, Irvin D. Yalom, Victor LaValle, Stephen Kuusisto, Anne Lamott, David Sedaris, Pam Houston, Ira Sukrungruang, Sallie Tisdale, Natalie Kusz, Cheryl Peck, Michael Martone, Atul Gawande, Sondra Solovay, Steven A. Shaw Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst ... Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times In Today's New York - John Freeman, Garnette Cadogan, Bill Cheng, Teju Cole, Lydia Davis, Jonathan Dee, Junot Díaz, Mark Doty, Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer, D.W. Gibson, Chaasadahyah Jackson, Lawrence Joseph, Victor LaValle, Valeria Luiselli, Colum McCann, Dinaw Mengestu, Téa Obreht, Pat A People's Future of the United States - Lizz Huerta, John Joseph Adams, Charlie Jane Anders, Victor LaValle The Best of Richard Matheson (Penguin Cl... The Best of Richard Matheson (Penguin Classics) - Richard Matheson, Victor LaValle, Victor LaValle Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History - Tananarive Due, Sofia Samatar, Ken Liu, Victor LaValle, Nnedi Okorafor, Sabrina Vourvoulias, Thoraiya Dyer, Rose Fox, Daniel José Older, Julie Dillon Victor LaValle's Destroyer #3 - Victor L... Victor LaValle's Destroyer #3 - Victor LaValle, Dietrich Smith The 826 Quarterly, Volume 4 - Students in Conjunction with 826 Valencia, Victor LaValle Victor LaValle's Destroyer (Issues) (2 B... Victor LaValle's Destroyer (Issues) (2 Book Series) - Victor LaValle, Dietrich Smith Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Bestiary #1 -... Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Bestiary #1 - Victor LaValle, Ben Meares, Mark Miller, Colin Lorimer, Carlos Magno, Conor Nolan The Ballad of Black Tom - Kevin R. Free, Victor LaValle Victor LaValle's Destroyer - Dietrich Smith, Victor LaValle
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Victor LaValle's Destroyer - Dietrich Smith, Victor LaValle
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Destroyer - Dietrich Smith, Victor LaValle
The Ballad of Black Tom - Kevin R. Free, Victor LaValle
The Sundial (Penguin Classics) - Shirley Jackson, Victor LaValle
A People's Future of the United States - Lizz Huerta, John Joseph Adams, Charlie Jane Anders, Victor LaValle
The Changeling - Victor LaValle
Tor.com Publishing's 2017 Hugo Finalist Bundle - Carrie Vaughn, Kij Johnson, Victor LaValle, Nina Allan, Seanan McGuire, Fran Wilde, Kai Ashante Wilson, N.K. Jemisin, Alyssa Wong
The Changeling - Victor LaValle
The Changeling - Victor LaValle
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Carmilla Reads
Carmilla Reads rated it 4 years ago
text Short stories about working class males in Queens
At last! A book I've read that's listed on Booklikes. I was wondering whether I'd have to manually add all my recent reads, but I have to admit I just didn't bother adding the others. This collection of short stories was powerful and sometimes upsetting. They seemed in many ways autobiographical a...
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Chris' Fish Place
Chris' Fish Place rated it 5 years ago
text Great book
There are people out there, and I bet you know at least one, who believe that fantasy fiction is simply genre fiction. That it is, to borrow a phrase that appears in movie reviews by people who do not read or watch fantasy very often, little more than magic and Morris men. (I've only ever seen Morri...
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Carmilla Reads
Carmilla Reads rated it 5 years ago
text I love Lavalle
Anthony is the epitome of unreliable narrators. This book is full of surreal scenes, twisted logic, impossible events and a touch of magic, but how much of Anthony’s account can we believe? Sitting here, days after finishing this astounding book, I struggle to untangle what actually happens in the s...
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Folding Paper & Spilling Ink
Folding Paper & Spilling Ink rated it 5 years ago
text Destroyer
This is a really interesting take on the Frankenstein story. It focuses in on the nature of monstrousness and uses the old familiar story to say some interesting things on themes of race and family. The art is striking, full of reds and sweeping brush strokes, and fits well with the story being told...
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Bark at the Ghouls
Bark at the Ghouls rated it 5 years ago
text Come Join Us by the Fire
This is free. Go get yourself a copy! Link hereIf these stories are any indication of what we can expect from Tor’s new horror line NightFire, we have some excellent horror fiction to look forward to in the brand new year! The production and narration is excellent and the writing is strong and polis...
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