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Hi! I'm a writer based in San Francisco. My first book, DOCTOR OLAF VAN SCHULER'S BRAIN (Algonquin, 2008), is a collection of linked short stories. My novel THE EXPERT OF SUBTLE REVISIONS comes out on March 18, 2025. More about me and my books on my website: www.kirstenmengeranderson.com
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Kirsten Menger-Anderson rated On Writing: 5 stars
On Writing by Stephen King
"Long live the King" hailed Entertainment Weekly upon the publication of Stephen King's On Writing. Part memoir, part master class …
Kirsten Menger-Anderson rated Housekeeping: 5 stars
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Housekeeping is a 1980 novel by Marilynne Robinson. The novel was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and …
Kirsten Menger-Anderson rated NurtureShock: 5 stars
NurtureShock by Po Bronson
Award-winning science journalists Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman demonstrate that many of modern society's strategies for nurturing children are in …
Kirsten Menger-Anderson rated Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: 5 stars
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara by Ben Fountain
The well-meaning protagonists of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara are caught—to both disastrous and hilarious effect—in the maelstrom of political …
Kirsten Menger-Anderson rated State of Wonder: 4 stars
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
State of Wonder is a 2011 novel by American author Ann Patchett. It is the story of pharmacologist Marina Singh, …
Kirsten Menger-Anderson rated Touch: 5 stars
Kirsten Menger-Anderson rated Room: a novel: 5 stars
Room: a novel by Emma Donoghue
To five-year-old Jack, Room is the world.
It's where he was born. It's where he and his Ma eat and …
Kirsten Menger-Anderson rated The Species Seekers: 5 stars
The Species Seekers by Richard Conniff
This book tells the colorful history of the early naturalists who risked death to discover strange life-forms at the ends …
Kirsten Menger-Anderson rated Russian winter: 5 stars
Kirsten Menger-Anderson rated The new valley: 5 stars
Josh Weil: The new valley (2009, Grove Press)
The new valley by Josh Weil
Three linked novellas explore the private worlds of three men--a farmer struggling after his father's suicide, a single dad trying …
Kirsten Menger-Anderson rated Skinner's drift: 5 stars
Kirsten Menger-Anderson rated Wench: a novel: 5 stars
Wench: a novel by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Tawawa House in many respects is like any other American resort before the Civil War. Situated in Ohio, this idyllic …
Kirsten Menger-Anderson rated Alone with you: 5 stars
Alone with you by Marisa Silver
An indelible collection of eight stories that mine the complexities of familial relationships and the surprising ways love manifests itself …
Kirsten Menger-Anderson rated All that work and still no boys: 5 stars
