Charles D'Ambrosio
Charles D'Ambrosio attended the Iowa Writers Workshop after getting his BA in English at Oberlin College in Ohio. He is the author of two collections of short stories, The Point and The Dead Fish Museum, and one collection of essays, Orphans. He has taught at several universities and workshops, including Reed College and The Tin House Summer Workshop, both in Portland, Oregon where he lives with his wife, Heather Larimer.
“You all have stories, Sandy said. And we have secrets”
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“Where exactly do you put your hands on somebody who hurts everywhere?”
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“It's hard to kill yourself by taking Tylenol. You die from liver failure, which takes a long time...”
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“her knees, which looked, in the faint blue light, as though they'd been carved by water from a bar of soap.”
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“Yeah, well, I wanted to be a screenwriter, and guess what? I am one. That's the other tragedy in life.”
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“My ideal life is a quiet one. I like to read, to sit still in the same chair, with the lampshade at a certain angle, alone, or with Meagan nearby, and now and then, if I'm lucky, I'll come across a lovely phrase or fine sentiment, look up from my book, and feel the harmony of some notion, the justice of it, and know that everything is there. That's life to me, those privately discovered moments. ”
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