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Aimee Bender

Aimee Bender
Aimee Bender is the author of The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, An Invisible Sign of My Own, Willful Creatures, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, The Color Master, and most recently, TheButterfly Lampshade, longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Award. Hershort fiction has appeared in Granta, GQ, Harper’s, Tin House, McSweeney’s, and the Paris Review, among other publications, and her work has been translated into sixteen languages.


A Gathering of Stones: Aimee Bender on the Earth’s Best Secret-Keepers

“I felt a kinship with the stones.”
August 1, 2022  By Aimee Bender
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Aimee Bender on Writing Without a Plan

“Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.”
April 1, 2022  By Aimee Bender
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A Very Particular Risk: Aimee Bender on Jane Campion and Kazuo Ishiguro

Surrendering to Narrative in The Piano and Klara and the Sun
August 30, 2021  By Aimee Bender
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