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Author of novels, The Dreamers and The Age of Miracles.

Joined June 2012
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Join us tomorrow for a reading with the celebrated and prolific @thomasbeller ! Award-winning author of fiction and non-fiction, including The Sleep-Over Artist, J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist & more. 2/22, 4:30pm, Knight Library Browsing Room. @mat_johnson @drunkinsunlight
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Reminder: our first in-person reading in two years is tomorrow! Join us on campus for @PaisleyRekdal, award-winning author of six books of poetry as well as nonfiction, most recently: APPROPRIATE: A PROVOCATION. 4/7, 8pm. Join us! crwr.uoregon.edu/ay21-22-rea…
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Also today: UO fiction professor @kthompsonwalker will interview UO MFA fiction grad Morgan Thomas about their debut story collection MANYWHERE for @PoliticsProse at 6pm EST. "A musical, incantatory style that approaches poetry." --NYT Register here: eventbrite.com/e/pp-live-mor…
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We're proud to be hosting award-winning UO MFA poetry alum Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach for a reading (via Zoom) on Wednesday, 1/26, 4:30 PST. For more information and to register, click here: crwr.uoregon.edu/ay21-22-rea… @drunkinsunlight @mat_johnson @karenthompsonwalker
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Just over an hour until @evandawson has @KThompsonWalker, author of The Age of Miracles, on #Connections. Tune in #ROC #RochesterReads
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Remember to put @CaseyMWalker's book launch for #LastDaysinShanghai w/ @hannahtinti on your calendar! 12/10 at 7PM! tinyurl.com/ndw8pr6
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Starting 9/29: @KThompsonWalker teaches a new 10 week class, ART OF SPECULATIVE FICTION continuingeducation.newschoo… Seats still available!
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This just in! Our 2015 #IFAllofROC book will be: The Age of Miracles by @KThompsonWalker We are so excited! Is it March yet?
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2014 longlist - Karen Thompson Walker on writing "The Age of Miracles": youtu.be/iC0aT7VnpHo via @youtube
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Nominiert für den #Leserpreis 2013: "Die Springflut"/Kategorie Krimi und "Ein Jahr voller Wunder"/Kategorie Romane. lovelybooks.de/leserpreis/
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What I love best about Alice Munro's Nobel: they had to track her down. She wasn't waiting for it. True humility and wisdom.
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Enjoying "The Age of #Miracles: Climate Change Fiction" talk @sxsweco with @KThompsonWalker and @bcmerchant
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Someone should invent an alarm that sounds whenever humanity becomes too ridiculous.
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Every year I reread @colsonwhitehead's remarkable piece abt New York & New Yorkers, past, present & future nyti.ms/SAzfRS #Honor911
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We should create a Norton Anthology of Hilarious Marginalia @dagny I ordered a used Norton Anthology of Poetry... teapawt.net/dagny/status/376165134…
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THE AGE OF MIRACLES is today's Kindle Daily Deal - grab it for 99p!... fb.me/2hwsVoRWg
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Remember the embarrassing olden days when someone like me would have had to ask another human what twerking is? #thanksinternet
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Replying to @KThompsonWalker
@KThompsonWalker IT BEGINS MT @washingtonpost: Stutters in Earth's spin changed length of days in 2003, 2004 and 2007 wapo.st/12Eli3Y
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Linguists believe we have around two dozen words that have survived for 150 centuries. tmne.ws/3LFcV9
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