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Michael Shilling

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Born

in NYC, The United States

Website

http://rockbottomnovel.com

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Humor, Entertainment

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Joan Didion, Wallace Stevens, Brett Easton Ellis, Stanley Booth, Rober ...more

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Michael Shilling is the author of Rock Bottom, which Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company published in 2009. This summer, the book will be adapted as musical by the Landless Theater Company in Washington, DC. His short stories have appeared in The Sun, Fugue, and Other Voices. Back in Seattle after several wild years in the midwest, he teaches at Cornish College of the Arts, and is working on a novel that involves people running out of time while running after each other. He also plays the drums in a soul band.

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Bleak House

by Charles Dickens

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Michael Shilling said: " This one is easier to get into than Pickwick and Sketches by Boz, though so far lighter and less fascinating / straight-up weird. "

Nov 10, 2011 06:34PM · see review

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Michael Shilling said: " Boy was it fun to read the takedowns of this book on Goodreads, containing the standard varieties of puritanical experience one comes to expect from American readers. It's gross! It's mean! It's narrated by a Nazi! So I had to give it a shot. So far ...more "

Jul 20, 2011 11:47AM · see review