Elizabeth Crane

Elizabeth Crane

Elizabeth Crane

Forthcoming novel available for pre-order:

The History of Great Things

Elizabeth Crane

BOOKS

The History of

Great Things

We Only Know

So Much

You Must Be This Happy To Enter

Elizabeth Crane

Available now:

The History of Great Things

AND

Turf

Author of

We Only Know So Much

You Must Be This Happy To Enter

All This Heavenly Glory

When The Messenger Is Hot

We Only Know So Much

When The Messenger is Hot

Turf

PRAISE for

THE HISTORY OF GREAT THINGS

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“Cowritten, in a sense, by a daughter and her absent mother (who speaks from beyond the grave), this is an important work, fearless in both structure and vision, with Crane’s razor-edge fusion of intelligence, humor, and emotion informing every chapter. Get ready, world: this one’s going to be huge.”

“I cannot remember the last time I simultaneously cried and laughed as hard as I did while reading Elizabeth Crane’s glorious, tender knockout of a novel, The History of Great Things. Wait, yes I can. It was the last time I spoke to my mom about life.”

JAMIE QUATRO,

author of "I Want to Show You More"

AMBER TAMBLYN,

author of

"Dark Sparkler"

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"Elizabeth Crane has written a novel that is both unprecedented and fantastic (a word I mean in every sense). Without question, the unconventional narrative is compelling in a can’t-stop-reading kind of way. But there’s more to this book than a keen story cleverly told. Her every page thrums with wisdom, buzzes with truth. What did I learn after reading The History of Great Things? I learned that love survives death. And that no one ever really goes away, even if they have. And that all sides have many stories. And that we make our own happiness. This is unlike any novel I’ve ever encountered and it’s absolutely wonderful.” ​

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"In her signature prose style, full of verve and wit, Elizabeth Crane unpacks the problematic relationship between mother and daughter that will resonate with anyone. By telling each other’s stories, the mother and daughter in The History of Great Things reinvent each other, their relationship, and the possibility of empathy. You will cry, weep, and be glad you went along for this very particular beautiful and heartbreaking ride.” 

JILL ALEXANDER ESSBAUM,

author of "Hausfrau"

EMILY RAPP BLACK,

author of "The Still Point of the Turning World"

STORIES / ESSAYS /INTERVIEWS

Stories

The Long Trial, Catapult

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We Collect Things, Commentary

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Everywhere, Now, The Huffington Post

This is a Dad Story, Guernica

Wind, Hobart

The Genius Meetings, Guernica

Turf, The Collagist

Star Babies, The Coachella Review

What Happens When the Mipods Leave their Milieu, Five Chapters

Something Shiny, Chicago Reader

Promise, failbetter

Roosters and Bed, Rookie

Essays

On Girls, Trump, and Everyone I Ever Dated, Lithub

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Twenty Five, The Rumpus

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Nothing is Just One Thing, The Huffington Post

It's Everything, The Manifest-Station

For Better or For Worse, Eating Well

Ruby and Oli, The Believer

Elston Avenue, Chicago Magazine

Interviews

Other Voices #44, conversation with Steve Almond

Bookslut

Zulkey

Litpark

Lit Blog Co-op

The Collagist

BIO

Elizabeth Crane is the author of four collections of short stories, Turf, When the Messenger is Hot, All this Heavenly Glory, and You Must Be This Happy to Enter  as well as two novels, We Only Know So Much and The History of Great Things. Her work has been translated into several languages and has been featured in numerous publications including Other Voices, Nerve, Ecotone, Swink, Guernica, Coachella Review, Mississippi Review, Florida Review, Bat City Review, fivechapters, The Collagist, Make, Hobart, Rookie, Fairy Tale Review, failbetter, The Huffington Post, Eating Well, Chicago Magazine, the Chicago Reader and The Believer, and anthologies including Altared, The Show I’ll Never Forget, The Best Underground Fiction, Who Can Save Us Now?, Brute Neighbors and Dzanc’s Best of the Web 2008 and 2010. Her stories have been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts. Crane is a recipient of the Chicago Public Library 21st Century Award, and her work has been adapted for the stage by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater company, and also been adapted for film. She teaches in the UCR-Palm Desert low-residency MFA program. A film adaptation of We Only Know So Much premiered at the Nantucket Film Festival in June 2018.

CONTACT

Contact me at:

Representation: Alice Tasman, Jean Naggar Literary Agency

jtasman@jvnla.com

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