Nicolle Elizabeth has written extensively on translated literature for Words Without Borders, become one of the younger female members of the National Book Critics Circle, and had over 200 interviews, reviews, essays, and short stories published in journals and magazines both online and in print. She is also a bike mechanic, vegan baker, 2012 Pushcart Prize nominee, and has an MFA from a prestigious university in Writing she achieved while working three jobs, one of which was in a hardware store.
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One Time All I Wanted
By Nicolle Elizabeth
About the Book:
A hybrid of fiction and personal recollection that glimpses the experiences and sensations of one person’s fast-moving reality. Regularly funny, occasionally sad and always powerfully honest, Nicolle Elizabeth’s collection erupts more than it unravels; it challenges our understanding of memoir while demonstrating the transformative effects of personal experience. Elizabeth’s writing is enthusiastic, playful and insightful, which, combined with the book’s themes, produces an entertaining and purposeful reading adventure.
Published: January 23, 2012
ISBN: 978-0-9830674-8-1
Format: mobi, Epub
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Praise:
– One time, I stopped what I was doing and read Nicolle Elizabeth’s One Time All I Wanted as soon as I received it. I wish that I were you so I could do it again. — Michael Kimball, author of Us
– There is something so perfect and aching in Nicolle Elizabeth’s One Time All I Wanted. In a work that reads like a song, she offers a litany of truths that shatter and comfort by turns. Beautiful and arresting and completely original. — Kathy Fish, author of Together We Can Bury It
– The narrator of Nicolle Elizabeth’s One Time All I Wanted tosses confessions like colored rings that slip over our heads and down onto our shoulders as we stomp and applaud, our eyes marking the simple, curved paths from the snap of the wrist to the wash of blues & browns & reds that fill our nodding, eager vision fields. — Mel Bosworth, author of Freight
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one time a friend and i were paid to dress up and hand out fliers for a grocery store. she was dressed as a giant bear, i was dressed as a giant Cheez-It. then a gang of hooligans knocked me over and i could not get up.
one time i was living on my friend’s hammock in her back yard in Los Angeles and she gave me a copy of Miss Piggy’s Guide to Throwing a Dinner Party.
one time i asked Philip Levine about the bar fight he got in with some famous actor in LA as to me, “What Work Is” is one of the most important poems of all time, and I saw the fight as a metaphor for life in the states during that time period. so i asked him is it really true you got into this fight and he, confirming my suspicions said, “well he hit me first.”
one time i had a date with this famous DJ and we were standing outside by this gate and i went to lean on the gate to look cool and right where i put my hand, someone had recently hocked a giant loogie and there i was, standing, covered in someone’s hacked up mucus, trying not to cry.
i once was chased through a townsquare by a mob of angry people carrying fiery torches.
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* Read DSM’s interview with Nicolle.