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Teddy Wayne is the author of the novels "The Winner" (2024), "The Great Man Theory" (2022), "Apartment" (2020), "Loner" (2016), "The Love Song of Jonny Valentine" (2013) and "Kapitoil" (2010) and is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize runner-up, and a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award finalist and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. ...more

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""[Karim]'s a type—the nerdy and needy young immigrant—that we’re all familiar with but that no other writer, as far as I know, has invented such a funny and compelling voice and story for...it does what novels can do better than any other art form: Show us a familiar world through unfamiliar eyes."
—Jonathan Franzen in The Daily Beast

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Published on May 29, 2010 13:32 Tags: kapitoil, reviews
Average rating: 3.56 · 13,858 ratings · 2,365 reviews · 10 distinct worksSimilar authors
Loner

3.45 avg rating — 4,289 ratings — published 2016 — 14 editions
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The Love Song of Jonny Vale...

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The Winner

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3.80 avg rating — 1,242 ratings — published 2010 — 15 editions
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The Great Man Theory

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“It’s super-important to have a strong social media presence, and Jane’s always going, When interviewers ask you about your Twitter, say you love reaching out directly to your fans, and I’m like, I don’t even know how to use Twitter or what the password is because you disabled my laptop’s wireless and only let me go on the Internet to do homework research or email Nadine assignments, and she says, I’m doing you a big favor, it’s for nobodies who want to pretend like they’re famous and for self-promoting hacks without PR machines, and adults act like teenagers passing notes and everyone’s IQ drops thirty points on it.”
Teddy Wayne, The Love Song of Jonny Valentine

“Sometimes the only way to start over in life is to burn down the house.”
Teddy Wayne, Apartment

“Remember this, I commanded myself again, though I knew that this memory--like all of them--would lose an essential and truthful quality over the years. The notion that we repress or redact significant chunks of the past strikes me as a dramatic contrivence for storytellers more than a realistic psychological phenonomen, but that we alter or retrospection in subtle ways, to airbrush out unpalatable flemishes here and there, much as we sweep detritus in our present consciousness under the carpet: that seems quite natural.”
Teddy Wayne, Apartment

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Sherri I see that you have a new book out. I think I will recommend it to my new book group here in Beijing.


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