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Willy Vlautin

Willy Vlautin is the author of four novels: The Motel Life, Northline, Lean on Pete, which won two Oregon Book Awards, and The Free. He is the singer and songwriter of the band Richmond Fontaine and lives in Scappoose, Oregon. show more

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Willy Vlautin's Books

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 Motel Life - Willy Vlautin, Nate Beaty

Brothers & Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales - Jack Zipes, Gregory Maguire, Christopher Barzak, Maria Tatar, Eric Kraft, Steve Almond, Robert Coover, Richard Siken, Michael Martone, Kate Bernheimer, David J. Schwartz, Timothy Schaffert, Joshua Beckman, Vijay Seshadri, Ilya Kaminsky, Norman Lock, Willy Vlautin, Michael

Crime Plus Music: The Sounds of Noir: An Anthology of Music-Based Noir - Jim Fusilli, Craig Johnson, David Liss, Val McDermid, Alison Gaylin, Reed Farrel Coleman, Brendan DuBois, Willy Vlautin, Peter Blauner, Naomi Rand, Mark Haskell Smith, Erica Wright, Gary Phillips, Peter Robinson, Galadrielle Allman, Zoë Sharp

Hang the DJ: An Alternative Book of Music Lists - Angus Cargill, Roger Armstrong, Laura Barton, Andrew Benbow, Nev Bradford, John Burnside, Kevin Cummins, Sam Delaney, Michel Faber, Lavinia Greenlaw, Niall Griffiths, John Grindrod, Alexandra Heminsley, Will Hodgkinson, John Kelly, Richard T. Kelly, Nick Kent, Owen King, R

The Nevada Review - Caleb S. Cage, Joe McCoy, Frank Partlow, Brian K. Krolicki, Matthew B. Brown, H. Lee Barnes, David Oppegaard, Willy Vlautin, Sean Grady, Edward Hancock, Gary T. Cage, Brooke Gauthier, Lilo Bayati

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Lean On Pete - Willy Vlautin, Robin Detje

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It's a Mad Mad World rated it

8 years ago

text Crime Plus Music: Twenty Stories of Music-Themed Noir by Jim Fusilli

Modern life seems to have a soundtrack for everything. Even crime.CRIME + MUSIC: The Sounds of Noir, collects twenty darkly intense, music-related noir stories by world-renowned mystery authors Brendan DuBois, Alison Gaylin, Craig Johnson, David Liss, Val McDermid, Gary Phillips, Peter Robinson and,...

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Chris' Fish Place rated it

10 years ago

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I liked the other volume better. I can't figure out if it is because I'm a woman or because it was simply better. However, there a few essays that are worth it, like the one about Jack and the Beanstalk. If you like Neil Gaiman and/or Jeff Vandermeer, you should know each has an essay in this.

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EpicFehlReader rated it

10 years ago

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The Motel Life explores the frustrations and failed dreams of two Nevada brothers—on the run after a hit-and-run accident—who, forgotten by society, and short on luck and hope, desperately cling to the edge of modern life. Amazon.com The acclaim I've seen for this book was hard to ignore. "Ech...

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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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