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Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Karen Elizabeth Gordon, who is most well-known for her comic language handbooks The New Well-Tempered Sentence and The Deluxe Transitive Vampire, is also author to a collection of short stories published by Dalkey Archive Press. The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales was hailed by many critics as Rabelaisian in its humor.

Gordon resides alternately in Berkeley, California and Paris.

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“Not only were we naked, crazed, and starving (and far from our warm little homes); we were without any good books as well.”
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“All phone calls are obscene.”
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