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She has won 3 Best American short story awards, an O. Henry Prize and the Raymond Carver Short Story Award, as well as the Economist Prize and an Isherwood Fellowship. She is also the first recipient of Graywolf Press' Creative Nonfiction Award for "Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles: An Accidental Memoir" published this February 2006. On February 24, 2006 , the "Los Angeles Times" published an interview with Braverman in which she made outrageous claims of literary importance. This interview resulted in a flurry of comments in the blogophere, with some bloggers mocking her, and others noting she was clearly in the grips of a manic delusion. The interview continued to dwell on Braverman's mental illness, past history of drug use and further proves the point that for Braverman to get any notoriety from the Los Angeles Times, it must be negative. Just look at her past LA Times Reviews, what others have called works of "literary genius" the Times has called "shockingly bad and pornographic." There are better, recent interviews than the LA Times piece, Bookslut.com and the San Francisco Chronicle for example. She currently lives in San Francisco . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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