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Carola Dibbell


ABOUT the author

Carola Dibbell is a highly regarded rock critic whose fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Paris Review, Fence, and Black Clock. Writing about books as well as music, Dibbell was a Village Voice contributor for many years. The Only Ones is her debut novel.
Find out more here: caroladibbell.com
Twitter: @cdibbell


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The Only Ones front cover by Carola DibbellThe Only Ones
"Breathtaking. [Dibbell has] delivered a debut novel on par with some of the best speculative fiction of the past 30 years; The Only Ones deserves to be shelved alongside Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring, and P. D. James' The Children of Men. It's that good, and that important, and that heartbreakingly beautiful."
NPR


Interviews

An interview with Carola Dibbell | 6/2/2014
We talk with Carola about how punk and hip hop influenced her writing, and more.

PW interviews Carola Dibbell | 4/29/2015
Publishers Weekly talks with Carola about what elements of her life with her adopted daughter informed her writing.

A Bloom Q&A with Carola Dibbell | 8/26/2015
Bloom talks with Carola about authors that influenced her writing and inspire her.

An interview with Carola Dibbell | 3/14/2015
Jenna Leigh Evans talks with Carola about being a writer and making a living.

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