Valerie Hurley
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       Novelists rarely know what they're up to, but I would describe my novels as an attempt to explore America's mores at this strange and bewildering moment in our history. Of course in my work, I ask more questions than I answer, but fortunately Rilke said, "Be patient with the questions in your heart and learn to love the questions themselves."

                                     I published my first novel (
St. Ursula's Girls Against the Atomic Bomb) in 2003, and recently completed a new novel, Dominant Iguana Seeks Submissive Zebra. My work in progress is a novel, Walking Across the Atlantic


These videos--
excerpts from my new novel—were created and 
filmed by the talented Gianna Kiehl, Ken French and Robin Fawcett.  I am grateful to them and to Teresa Davis for sharing her wonderful paintings with me.

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© 2015 Valerie Hurley
Paintings by Teresa Davis, except for "New York from Brooklyn" by Colin Campbell Cooper