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Alissa Nutting (born 1980 or 1981) is an American author, creative writing professor and television writer. Her writing has appeared in Tin House, Fence, BOMB and the fairy tale anthology My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me.
Tampa is the debut novel of Alissa Nutting, an essayist and creative writing professor whose first book was the 2010 short story collection Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls. Nutting was inspired by Debra Lafave, a Tampa teacher charged with raping one of her middle school students in 2013.
Alissa Nutting is the author of Tampa (3.38 avg rating, 41361 ratings, 8184 reviews, published 2013), Made for Love (3.47 avg rating, 7593 ratings, 1370 ...
May 21, 2013 · In Alissa Nutting's novel Tampa, Celeste Price, a smoldering 26-year-old middle-school teacher in Florida, unrepentantly recounts her elaborate and sociopathically determined seduction of a 14-year-old student. In slaking her sexual thirst, Celeste is remorseless and deviously free of hesitation.
Apr 1, 2021 · Novelist Alissa Nutting and showrunner Christina Lee on making satire both timely and timeless and the need to present sci-fi through a female lens.
Alissa Nutting - The New York Times. Recent and archived work by Alissa Nutting for The New York Times. Latest. fiction. Her Sister Is Dead but Life, and Libido, Carry On. In Kimberly King...
Sep 15, 2013 · As a character she is perhaps more of a metaphor than a figure with true psychological depth (unsurprising in satire) – the monstrous endpoint of a society obsessed with youth, and particularly young women. As one reviewer succinctly put it, ‘Nutting recognises gender for the fucked game it is’.
Mar 4, 2014 · In Alissa Nutting’s novel Tampa, Celeste Price, a smoldering 26-year-old middle-school teacher in Florida, unrepentantly recounts her elaborate and sociopathically determined seduction of a 14-year-old student. Celeste has chosen and lured the charmingly modest Jack Patrick into her web.
Jul 2, 2013 · In Alissa Nutting’s novel Tampa, Celeste Price, a smoldering 26-year-old middle-school teacher in Florida, unrepentantly recounts her elaborate and sociopathically...
Jul 3, 2018 · “Alissa Nutting’s Made for Love has to be this summer’s most heartwarming novel.” — LitHub “[A] wacky, hysterical and crazy-compelling story. Virtually every sentence of this book is laugh-out-loud hilarious... With [Nutting’s] wit plus the intrigue of the plot, it really is impossible to put down.” — New York Daily News
