GalleyCrush: Verge

“A fiercely empathetic group portrait of the marginalized and outcast in moments of crisis, from one of the most galvanizing voices in American fiction.” 

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VERGE chosen as one of the 22 Best Books to Read This Winter

“Lidia Yuknavitch’s brutal, beautiful collection of short stories relates various bizarre slices of life...”

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Stewart will embark on adapting for the screen Lidia Yuknavitch’s book The Chronology of Water.

“…The Chronology of Water accessed what Yuknavitch calls Stewart’s ‘nomad code.’ The actor moved to Portland for a few weeks and wrote, occasionally parking outside of Yuknavitch’s home and sleeping in a Sprinter van with her dog Cole.”

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Actor Kristen Stewart Will Direct an Adaptation of Portland Author Lidia Yuknavitch’s “Chronology of Water”


"It's deeply personal to her," Stewart said of Chronology of Water. "[Yuknavitch] is in my blood and I knew that before I met her."

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Kristen Stewart Plans to Direct Bisexual Drama ‘The Chronology of Water’

"I’m going to write the best f*cking female role," Stewart said of developing her feature directorial debut.

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Boom Times for the New Dystopians

"'I built a world that is only a small distance from our present tense,” Ms. Yuknavitch said in an email."

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Portland Author Lidia Yuknavitch’s “Chronology of Water” Will Be Adapted Into Film.  

Andy Mingo — has optioned Oregon Book Award-winning memoir.

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Why Is It So Hard for Women to Write About Sex?

"...and The Chronology of Water, by Lidia Yuknavitch—are the memoirs of women who really, really like having sex, but whose heads never stop whirring even as their bodies are otherwise occupied."

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Quotable:

“If you want to write an excellent sex scene, you have to liberate it from the idea of a sex scene. . . . You have to thread sexuality through every part of a character or a person’s life, rather than limiting it to a titillating few pages where something juicy happens.” — Lidia Yuknavitch

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How Can Success Still Make You Feel Like A Failure?

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The 2014 Bad Sex In Fiction Award Nominees Are Writing About Sex In Isolation From the Rest of the Story — That's the Problem

"What, then, makes "good" sex writing? Deeper, more all-encompassing sex writing? Read Dorianne Laux’s poem “The Lovers,” Michelle Latiolais’s short story collection Widow, or anythingby Lidia Yuknavitch. These are women who don't separate sex — from language, from story, from what it means to be imperfectly human.


Top 10 Lidia Yuknavitch Quotes & 10 Reasons Why Now Is The Time To Listen

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2016 Oregon Book Awards announced; Lidia Yuknavitch wins twice

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