{"id":46149,"date":"2018-05-09T14:20:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T20:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=46149"},"modified":"2018-05-09T15:21:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T21:21:48","slug":"curtis-sittenfeld-with-you-think-it-ill-say-it-stories-thursday-may-10-2018-5-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/curtis-sittenfeld-with-you-think-it-ill-say-it-stories-thursday-may-10-2018-5-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtis Sittenfeld with You Think It I’ll Say It: Stories – Thursday, May 10, 2018 – 5 pm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Curtis Sittenfeld<\/strong> has established a reputation as a sharp chronicler of the modern age who humanizes her subjects even as she skewers them. Now, with this first collection of short fiction, her \u201castonishing gift for creating characters that take up residence in readers\u2019 heads\u201d (The Washington Post<\/em>) is showcased like never before.<\/span><\/p>\n

Throughout the ten stories in You Think It, I\u2019ll Say It<\/em><\/strong>, Sittenfeld upends assumptions about class, relationships, and gender roles in a nation that feels both adrift and viscerally divided. In \u201cThe World Has Many Butterflies,\u201d married acquaintances play a strangely intimate game with devastating consequences. In \u201cVox Clamantis in Deserto,\u201d a shy Ivy League student learns the truth about a classmate\u2019s seemingly enviable life. In \u201cA Regular Couple,\u201d a high-powered lawyer honeymooning with her husband is caught off guard by the appearance of the girl who tormented her in high school. And in \u201cThe Prairie Wife,\u201d a suburban mother of two fantasizes about the downfall of an old friend whose wholesome lifestyle-brand empire may or may not be built on a lie.<\/span><\/p>\n

With moving insight and uncanny precision, Curtis Sittenfeld pinpoints the questionable decisions, missed connections, and sometimes extraordinary coincidences that make up a life. Indeed, she writes what we\u2019re all thinking\u2014if only we could express it with the wit of a master satirist, the storytelling gifts of an old-fashioned raconteur, and the vision of an American original.<\/span><\/p>\n

Curtis Sittenfeld is the New York Times<\/em> bestselling author of the novels Prep<\/em><\/strong>, The Man of My Dreams<\/em><\/strong>, American Wife<\/em><\/strong>, Sisterland<\/em>,<\/strong> and Eligible<\/em><\/strong>, which have been translated into thirty languages. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker<\/em>, The Washington Post<\/em> Magazine, Esquire<\/em>, and The Best American Short Stories<\/em>; her nonfiction has been published in The New York Times<\/em>, The Atlantic<\/em>, Time<\/em>, and Glamour<\/em>, and broadcast on public radio\u2019s This American Life<\/em>. A native of Cincinnati<\/strong>, she currently lives with her family in St. Louis<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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