March 18, 2011
David Mathews’ memoir Ace of Spades is the story of the author’s bleak childhood and adolescence in inner city...
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March 18, 2011
The recently released Vida report, tallying the disparity between men and women being published today is a sobering reminder of...
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March 18, 2011
Derrick Jensen has produced some of the most culturally significant writing about the environment (and about the psychological...
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March 18, 2011
The U.S. House of Representatives voted recently to withhold all federal funding from Planned Parenthood for birth control,...
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February 3, 2011
When I first read Philipp Meyer’s American Rust I was struck by the poetry of it and exhilarated by the issues the author...
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February 2, 2011
When I first read Philipp Meyer’s American Rust I was struck by the poetry of it and exhilarated by the issues the author...
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January 27, 2011
Readers of my blog (and friends) will know my mother as the person whose ideas about parenting included reading booze-drenched...
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January 19, 2011
I was putting a picture of me and E. into a new frame recently when I took the backing off and found a foodstamp. The old-school...
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January 19, 2011
Recently a friend who’s been reading my blog asked why I only write about the things I think and not about things I do or...
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January 19, 2011
I get asked a lot of parenting questions these days and questions about being a single mother. I think this is partly because...
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January 19, 2011
When I was a child my favorite story was a piece by James Thurber that my mother used to read to me. It was called “Something...
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Author Appearances have been announced:
Find Cara Hoffman appearancesMar 17, 2012
Mar 09, 2012
So Much Pretty will be released on March 06, 2012 in Trade Paperback
Mar 06, 2012
So Much Pretty is now available in Trade Paperback
Mar 06, 2012
Graphic Excerpt:
So Much PrettyJan 21, 2012
Author Appearances have been announced:
Find Cara Hoffman appearancesMay 05, 2011
Author Voices:
Jennifer Block on Childbirth and ChoiceMar 20, 2011
Mar 20, 2011
Author Voices:
Our Stories, Ourselves; an Interview with Alexis SantiMar 20, 2011
Author Voices:
Ace of Spades; an Interview with David MatthewsMar 20, 2011
Author Appearances have been announced:
Find Cara Hoffman appearancesMar 18, 2011
So Much Pretty will be released on March 15, 2011 in Hardcover, eBook
Mar 15, 2011
So Much Pretty is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Mar 15, 2011
Excerpt:
Chapter 1 from So Much PrettyMar 05, 2011
Mar 03, 2011
Author Revealed Answer:
Who is your favorite fictional hero?Feb 10, 2011
Cara Hoffman's Books
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So Much PrettyA beautiful and chilling debut novel that Booklist calls "a mixture of The Lovely Bones and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo."Read More
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The Nation, July 3, 2012
...as finely and as bracingly as Allison Bechdel. Roane Carey, Managing Editor Malcolm X, by Manning Marable , by Cara Hoffman Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention is a brilliant biographya deeply researched, thoughtful, complex portrait of the man and the...
Chronogram Arts Culture Spirt, July 1, 2012
...A Novel by Cara Hoffman The essential plot of Cara Hoffman’s brilliant first novel, So Much Pretty, has an almost spaghetti-western, Clint Eastwoodesque logic to it. Something terrible happens in the little farming town...
Elkhart Truth, January 9, 2013
...Tuttle 0, Shyla Southern 0. Totals: xx xx-xx xx. Tippecanoe Valley — Taylor Trippiedi 0, Danielle Bussard 4, Cara Hoffman 15, Robyn Dunnuck 0, Courtney Newsome 15, Connor Fraser 2, Karis Tucker 5, Ball 6, Tul 4. Totals: 22 2-3 51. Scoring By...
The Yorker, December 13, 2012
...©Random House With a title like So Much Pretty, it is difficult to approach Cara Hoffman’s debut novel without assumption. Aligned to the likes of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Lovely Bones, I was expecting twisted, hauntingly creepy...
DeKalb County Times-Journal, October 1, 2012
...Jeremy Taylor presided over the event. Meal sponsors included First Federal Bank, First State Bank, GameTime, Doug and Cara Hoffman, Horizon Bank, Regions Bank, Sand Mountain Electric Cooperative and Siemens Energy. First Presbyterian Church for...
Standard Speaker, August 28, 2012
...Richelle Van Horn, Kylie Kashlak, (x) Marley Mikovich, (x) Kylie Catena. Sophomores: Jessica Weise, Jocelyn Stefanick, Macey Markovich, Cara Hoffman, Erin Evans, Emily Drissel. Freshmen: Cassie Binder, Hannah Hill, Huntre Keip, Alexandra Kennedy,...
Fast Company, August 6, 2012
...from authors has been high, as Togather’s team of seven is ingesting authors as quickly as possible. Cara Hoffman is another early adopter. The author of So Much Pretty sees Togather as part of the evolution of book culture, an online service that...
The Nation, July 3, 2012
...as finely and as bracingly as Allison Bechdel. Roane Carey, Managing Editor Malcolm X, by Manning Marable , by Cara Hoffman Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention is a brilliant biographya deeply researched, thoughtful, complex portrait of the man and the...
Chronogram Arts Culture Spirt, July 1, 2012
...A Novel by Cara Hoffman The essential plot of Cara Hoffman’s brilliant first novel, So Much Pretty, has an almost spaghetti-western, Clint Eastwoodesque logic to it. Something terrible happens in the little farming town...
