Dana Spiotta is the author of Innocents and Others; Stone Arabia, A National Books Critics Circle Award finalist; and Eat the Document, a finalist for the National Book Award. Eat the Document has also been made into an opera adaptation. Her most recent novel is Wayward. Spiotta is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the John Updike Prize, and the Rome Prize for Literature. She lives in Syracuse, New York.
"A smart, subtle, moving story about the complicated business of
knowing the people you love...a wild, sorrowful, rambling, deeply
subjective, incandescently beautiful document."--Matthew Sharpe,
Bookforum
"Added to the brilliant glitter of Ms. Spiotta's earlier work...is
something deeper and sadder: not just alienation, but a hard-won
awareness of mortality and passing time... both a clever meditation
on the feedback loop between life and art, and a moving portrait of
a brother and sister, whose wild youth on the margins of the rock
scene has given way to the disillusionments and vexations of middle
age."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"Dana Spiotta's Stone Arabia is a dreamlike meditation on fame and
success, technology and the imagination. The novel beautifully
manifests Ms. Spiotta's gift for transforming her keen cultural
intelligence into haunting, evocative prose."--Jennifer Egan,
author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Visit from the Goon
Squad
"Dana Spiotta's stunning, virtuoso novel Stone Arabia plays out the
A and B sides of a sibling bond..."--Elissa Schappell, Vanity
Fair
"Evocative, mysterious, incongruously poetic...gritty, intelligent,
mordent, and deeply sad...Spiotta has created, in Stone Arabia, a
work of visceral honesty and real beauty."--Kate Christensen, The
New York Times Book Review
"Fascinating...resonant...what's most remarkable about Stone Arabia
is the way Spiotta explores such broad, endemic social ills in the
small, peculiar lives of these sad siblings. Her reflections on the
precarious nature of modern life are witty until they're really
unsettling."--Ron Charles, Washington Post
"I read Stone Arabia avidly and with awe. The language of it, the
whole Gnostic hipness of it is absolutely riveting. It comes
together in the most artful, surprising, insistent, satisfying way.
Dana Spiotta is a major, unnervingly intelligent writer."--Joy
Williams, author of The Quick and the Dead
"Is there a more electrifying novelist working than Dana
Spiotta?...[Stone Arabia] makes for a sharp character study: A
portrait of the artist as middle-aged never-was. Yet Spiotta's
genius is to recognize that Nik's journey is representative not
just for his sister or his mother but for every one of us."--David
Ulin, LA Times
"Outstanding...Male American writers have talked about the
incursion of the real into territory previously held by the
novelist's capacity for invention; but who before Spiotta has
written about reality's threat not to imagination but to memory
itself?...An essential American writer."--Jonathan Dee, Harper's
Magazine
"Stone Arabia is a rock n' roll novel like no other. Where desire
for legacy tangles with fantasy. And identity and memory are in and
out of control. A loser's game of conceit, deceit, passion, love
and the raw mystery of superstar desire."--Thurston Moore
"Stone Arabia possesses the edged beauty and charged prose of Dana
Spiotta's earlier work, but in this novel about siblings, music,
teen desire and adult decay, Spiotta reaches ever deeper, tracking
her characters' sweet, dangerous American dreaming with glorious
precision. Here is a wonderful novel by one of our major
writers."--Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask
"The book maps a post-punk milieu where the sense of completeness
punk offered... never goes away. Spiotta can capture whole lives in
the most ordinary transaction, and make it cut like X's 'Los
Angeles' or the Avengers' 'Car Crash.'"--Greil Marcus, The
Believer
"Transfixing...It's as though Nabokov had written a rock
novel."--Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly
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