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# Laurie Sheck

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- [Home](https://lauriesheck.com/) - CYBORG FEVER “A novel of surpassing beauty that enacts a complex and moving investigation into the nature of empathy.”– Vivian Gornick “A calmy terrifying novel, as impressive for its deep learning as its lyric sting. As always, Sheck writes superlative speculative epics out of civilization’s scraps.”– Ed Park “Brilliantly constructed and beautifully poignant, this is a complex and profound novel
- [Cyborg Fever](https://lauriesheck.com/cyborg-fever/) - AMAZON BARNES & NOBLE BOOKSHOP Cyborg FeverIn Cyborg Fever, acclaimed writer Laurie Sheck delivers a lyrical philosophical fiction in the spirit of Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino, and Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto. This probing novel explores what it means to be human in an age of AI, genetic engineering, and transhumanism.Strange and wondrous moments unfold: an
- [About](https://lauriesheck.com/about/) - Laurie Sheck is the author of two hybrid fictions: Island of the Mad (2016) which involves the discovery of a mysterious notebook and the life of Dostoevsky and is set in the Venetian lagoon, and A Monster’s Notes (2009), centered around the un-named “monster” in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, still alive in the 21st century. A Monster’s Notes was nominated for the International DUBLIN Literary
- [Writings](https://lauriesheck.com/writings/) - Selected WritingsEssays Dostoevsky’s Empathy, Paris ReviewReading Dostoevsky for Thanksgiving, re-posted by Bill MoyersBest Book of 1869: Dostoevsky’s The Idiot, GrantaMaking Art at the Margins, The AtlanticSelf-Interview in the Form of Passagesfrom Island of the Mad and A Monster’s Notes, Rain TaxiInterviews & Conversations Dostoevsky & the Ghosts of Venice, Electric LiteratureLaurie Sheck interviewed by Ani Kokoboko, The RumpusThe
- [Contact](https://lauriesheck.com/contact/) - CONTACTPublicity:Lecture + speaking requests:lasheck3@gmail.com
- [Media](https://lauriesheck.com/media/) - PRESS & REVIEWSA Monster’s Notes“A remarkable creation, a baroque opera of grief, laced with lines of haunting beauty and profundity . . . [Sheck’s book] defies description and shreds any expectations you might have for a novel.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Postfull review“An electrifying literary triumph…a thrilling feat of literary scholarship, beautiful wordsmithing, and deep empathy.
- [Videos](https://lauriesheck.com/videos/) - INTRODUCTION Island of the Mad and A Monster’s Notes draw on a myriad of non-fiction sources. As Dostoevsky repeatedly pointed out, nothing is more radical, or even seemingly more improbable, than the real. The following videos provide a glimpse into some of the sources informing these two hybrid works—locations, paintings, manuscripts, photographs, documents, etc. accompanied
- [A Monster's Notes](https://lauriesheck.com/a-monsters-notes-2/) - AMAZON BARNES & NOBLE BOOKSHOP A Monster’s Notes What if Mary Shelley had not invented Frankenstein’s monster but had met him when she was a girl of eight, sitting by her mother’s grave, and he came to her unbidden? What if their secret bond left her forever changed, obsessed with the strange being who she
- [The Willow Grove](https://lauriesheck.com/the-willow-grove/) - SAMPLE POEM AMAZON BARNES & NOBLE BOOKSHOP The Willow GroveFinalist for the Pulitzer 1997Laurie Sheck interweaves the contemporary with the mythic, creating a realm in which such things as radios, skyscrapers, expressways, and mannequins are at once familiar and strange; immediate, yet tinged with the light of distance and myth. It is a realm where
- [Captivity](https://lauriesheck.com/captivity-2/) - SAMPLE POEMS AMAZON BARNES & NOBLE BOOKSHOP CaptivityAt once tender and fierce, concise and associative, Laurie Sheck’s Captivity charts and explores the textures and movements of mind in her gorgeous, long-lined poetry. Placed at intervals throughout the book are poems the author calls “Removes,” which take their initial impulse from American captivity narratives and constitute
- [Black Series](https://lauriesheck.com/black-series/) - SAMPLE POEM AMAZON BARNES & NOBLE BOOKSHOP Black SeriesIn her remarkable Black Series, Laurie Sheck turns the ordinary world inside out and shows us its glittering seams. Her long, elegantly quizzical lines convey a haunted vision of human striving which is in part an elaboration on our daily reality, and in part a fantastic departure
- [Island Of The Mad](https://lauriesheck.com/island-of-the-mad/) - AMAZON BARNES & NOBLE BOOKSHOP Island Of The MadExtending the prismatic, collage-like approach of A Monster’s Notes, Island of the Mad follows the hunchbacked, solitary Ambrose A from his days as a book-scanner in a digitizing firm’s dim basement office to his travels in Venice and his search for a lost notebook. As time and
- [IO At Night](https://lauriesheck.com/io-at-night/) - SAMPLE POEM AMAZON IO At NightIt’s daring of Laurie Sheck to have made the myths surrounding Io so crucial to the central tenor of her poems, but the themes of exile, distance, and freedom from the falsehoods of secular appearance weave the title into her images, along with her own dedicated attention and moral passion.”—W.

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