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Atavists: Stories, Lydia Millet's newest collection of short fiction, published on April 22, 2025 and praised by Kirkus Reviews for its 'Wonderfully Human, beautifully flawed characters'.
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A slideshow of quotes from Lydia Millet's short story collection Atavists.
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About the Author

Lydia Millet has written more than a dozen novels and story collections. Her novel A Children's Bible was a New York Times "Best 10 Books of 2020" selection and shortlisted for the National Book Award. In 2019 her story collection Fight No More received an Award of Merit from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and her collection Love in Infant Monkeys was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2010. She also writes essays, opinion pieces, book reviews, and other ephemera and has worked as an editor and staff writer at the Center for Biological Diversity since 1999. She lives in the desert outside Tucson with her family.

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