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'''Amanda Filipacchi''' ({{IPAc-en|icon|f|ɪ|l|ɪ|ˈ|p|ɑː|k|ɪ}}; born October 10, 1967) is an American writer, born in ] and educated in both France and the U.S. She is the author of three novels, '']'' (1993), '']'' (1999), and '']'' (2005). Her work has been widely translated, and she has been praised for her comic talent. '''Amanda Filipacchi''' ({{IPAc-en|f|ɪ|l|ɪ|ˈ|p|ɑː|k|ɪ}}; born October 10, 1967) is an American novelist. She was born in Paris and educated in both in France and in the U.S. She is the author of four novels, '']'' (1993), '']'' (1999), '']'' (2005), and '']'' (2015). Her fiction has been translated into 13 languages.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3Aamanda+filipacchi&fq=&dblist=638&fc=ln:_25&qt=show_more_ln%3A |publisher=WorldCat |title=Amanda Filipacchi |access-date=May 27, 2013}}</ref>


==Early life== ==Early life and education==
Filipacchi was born in Paris, and was educated in France and the U.S. She is the daughter of former model ] and ], chairman of ].<ref name="hoban">{{cite news|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=vScAAAAAMBAJ&q=amanda+filipacchi#v=snippet&q=amanda%20filipacchi&f=false|title=Brief Lives: Skin Deep|last=Hoban|first=Phoebe|date=14 January 1993|work=]|page=30|accessdate=27 April 2013}}</ref> She has been writing since the age of thirteen and completed three unpublished novels in her teenage years.<ref name="hoban" /> She has been living in New York since she was 17.<ref>{{cite web|title="Bio" page|url=http://www.amandafilipacchi.com/|work=amandafilipacchi.com|accessdate=29 April 2013}}</ref> She attended ], where she graduated with a BA in Creative Writing. In 1990, Filipacchi enrolled in ]’s MFA fiction writing program, where she wrote a master's thesis which she later turned into her first published novel, '']''.<ref name="ca"/> She took a class with '']''{{'}}s fiction and poetry editor, Alice Quinn, on whose recommendation she signed with literary agent ].{{cn|date=April 2013}} Filipacchi was born in Paris, and was educated in France (where she attended the ] in St. Cloud<ref name=Ardisson>Ardisson, Thierry. , ''DailyMotion'', INA.fr, putative broadcast date October 17, 2010. Retrieved June 6, 2013. See also her earlier "" and her deft replies to Ardisson's verbal challenges.</ref>) and in the U.S. She is the daughter of former model ] and ], chairman emeritus of ].<ref name="hoban">{{cite news |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vScAAAAAMBAJ&q=amanda+filipacchi |title=Brief Lives: Skin Deep |last=Hoban |first=Phoebe |date=January 14, 1993 |work=] |page=30 |access-date=April 27, 2013}}</ref> She has been writing since the age of thirteen and completed three unpublished novels in her teenage years.<ref name="hoban" /> She has been living in New York since she was 17.<ref>{{cite web |title="Bio" page |url=http://www.amandafilipacchi.com/ |work=amandafilipacchi.com |access-date=April 29, 2013}}</ref> She attended ], from which she graduated with a BA in Creative Writing. At age 20, she tried her hand at non-fiction writing at '']'' magazine.<ref name=Ardisson/> In 1990, Filipacchi enrolled in ]'s MFA fiction writing program, where she wrote a master's thesis which she later turned into her first published novel, '']''.<ref name="ca"/>


==Career== ==Career==
In 1992, when Filipacchi was twenty-four years old and before her graduation, Jackson sold '']'' to Nan Graham at ]. The novel was translated widely<ref>Including German, French, Slovak, Danish, Dutch, Turkish, German, French, Italian, Hebrew, Swedish, and Russian. {{cite web|title=Records in Index Translationum database|url=http://www.unesco.org/xtrans/bsresult.aspx?a=Filipacchi&stxt=&sl=&l=&c=&pla=&pub=&tr=&e=&udc=&d=&from=&to=&tie=a|work=Index Translationum|publisher=UNESCO|accessdate=28 April 2013}}</ref> and was anthologized in ''The Best American Humor 1994'' (published by ] 1994).<ref>{{cite book|page=10|title=Best American Humor 1994|last=Waldoks|first=Moshe|year=1994|publisher=Touchstone|isbn=0-671-89940-6}}</ref> In 1992, when Filipacchi was 24, a time shortly before her graduation, her agent, Melanie Jackson,<ref name="ca"/> sold ''Nude Men'' to Nan Graham at ]. The novel was later translated into ten languages<ref>Including German, French, Slovak, Danish, Dutch, Turkish, Italian, Hebrew, Swedish, and Russian. {{cite web |title=Records in Index Translationum database |url=http://www.unesco.org/xtrans/bsresult.aspx?a=Filipacchi&stxt=&sl=&l=&c=&pla=&pub=&tr=&e=&udc=&d=&from=&to=&tie=a |work=Index Translationum |publisher=UNESCO |access-date=April 28, 2013}}</ref> and was anthologized in ''The Best American Humor 1994'' (published by ]).<ref>{{cite book |page= |title=Best American Humor 1994 |last=Waldoks |first=Moshe |year=1994 |publisher=Touchstone |isbn=0-671-89940-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/bestamericanhumo00mosh/page/10}}</ref>


Filipacchi’s second and third novels, '']'' (1999) and '']'' (2005, a novel about obsessive love<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.parismatch.com/Culture-Match/Livres/Actu/Deux-variations-sur-le-meme-t-aime.-70156/|title=Amanda Filipacchi: Deux Variations sur la Meme T'Aime|last=Dupont|first=Pepita|date=4 July 2006|work=]|language=French|accessdate=27 April 2013}}</ref> and stalking<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2005/06/19/new__recommended/|title=New & Recommended|date=19 June 2005|work=]|accessdate=27 April 2013}}</ref>), were also translated into multiple languages.<ref>''Love Creeps'' has been translated into French, Polish, and Dutch. ''Vapor'' was published in French, Italian, and Polish. {{cite web|title=Records in Index Translationum database|url=http://www.unesco.org/xtrans/bsresult.aspx?a=Filipacchi&stxt=&sl=&l=&c=&pla=&pub=&tr=&e=&udc=&d=&from=&to=&tie=a|work=Index Translationum|publisher=UNESCO|accessdate=28 April 2013}}</ref> Filipacchi's second and third novels, ''Vapor'' (1999) and ''Love Creeps'' (2005, a novel about obsessive love<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.parismatch.com/Culture-Match/Livres/Actu/Deux-variations-sur-le-meme-t-aime.-70156/ |title=Amanda Filipacchi: Deux Variations sur la Meme T'Aime |last=Dupont |first=Pepita |date=July 4, 2006 |work=] |language=fr |access-date=April 27, 2013}}</ref> and ] respectively<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2005/06/19/new__recommended/ |title=New & Recommended |date=June 19, 2005 |work=] |access-date=April 27, 2013}}</ref>), were also translated into multiple languages.<ref>''Love Creeps'' has been translated into French, Polish, Dutch, and Korean. ''Vapor'' was published in French, Italian, and Polish. {{cite web |title=Records in Index Translationum database |url=http://www.unesco.org/xtrans/bsresult.aspx?a=Filipacchi&stxt=&sl=&l=&c=&pla=&pub=&tr=&e=&udc=&d=&from=&to=&tie=a |work=Index Translationum |publisher=UNESCO |access-date=April 28, 2013}} {{cite book |title=Love Creeps |publisher=WorldCat |oclc=57429819}}</ref> In 2005, Filipacchi was invited to participate in the 2005 Saint-Amour literary festival, a 10-city tour through Belgium.<ref>{{cite news |title=Amanda Filipacchi. Ecrivain française |url=http://www.evene.fr/celebre/biographie/amanda-filipacchi-23223.php |work=Evene |access-date=May 27, 2013}}</ref>
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⚫ Reviewers have called Filipacchi "a prodigious postfeminist talent",<ref>{{cite news |title=Vapor |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7867-0617-4 |access-date=April 29, 2013 |newspaper=Publishers Weekly |date=March 29, 1999 |format=unsigned review |quote=Her novel showcases a prodigious postfeminist talent.}}</ref> and a "lovely comic surrealist".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/books/plum-s-tarts.html?pagewanted=2 |title=Plum's Tarts |last=Sicha |first=Choire |date=April 18, 2004 |work=] |access-date=April 30, 2013}}</ref> '']'' described her writing style as "reminiscent in certain ways of Muriel Spark ... brisk, witty, knowing, mischievous."<ref>{{Cite news |title=Exploring the slippery nature of desire |work=Boston Globe |access-date=April 28, 2013 |date=June 12, 2005 |url=http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2005/06/12/exploring_the_slippery_nature_of_desire/?page=full}}</ref> ''Love Creeps'' (referred to in a review by Alexis Soloski in '']'' as having "oddball situations and merrily acidic dialogue"<ref>{{cite news |last=Soloski |first=Alexis |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-05-31/books/page-burners/ |title=Page-Burners |date=May 31, 2005 |work=] |access-date=April 30, 2013}}</ref>) was one of ''The Village Voice'''s top 25 books of the year,<ref>{{Cite news |title=Top Shelf 2005 |work=The Village Voice |access-date=April 28, 2013 |date=December 6, 2005 |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-12-06/books/top-shelf-2005/full/}}</ref> and was included in the syllabus of a course on the comic novel in ]'s graduate creative writing program.<ref>{{cite news |last=Park |first=Ed |title=Comic Novels |url=http://www.bookforum.com/booklist/3892 |work=Bookforum |date=May 20, 2009 |access-date=May 27, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=What Ed Park's Students Are Reading |date=March 24, 2009 |url=http://bookculture.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/what-ed-parks-students-are-reading/ |publisher=Book Culture |access-date=May 27, 2013}}</ref>


In August 2013, Filipacchi sold her novel, ''The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty'', to ]. According to the publisher, the novel deals with two women going to elaborate lengths to find love.<ref name=RachelDeahl >{{cite web |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/book-deals/article/58843-book-deals-august-26-2013.html |title=Book Deals: Week of August 26, 2013 |last=Deahl |first=Rachel |date=August 26, 2013 |work=] |access-date=August 26, 2013}}</ref> ] and '']'' included it in lists of the most anticipated books of 2015.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Turits |first1=Meredith |title=12 of the Most Anticipated Books of 2015, aka the Titles We Can't Get Our Hands On Soon Enough |url=http://www.bustle.com/articles/48155-12-of-the-most-anticipated-books-of-2015-aka-the-titles-we-cant-get-our-hands |website=Bustle.com |date=December 15, 2014 |access-date=December 16, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Crum |first1=Maddie |title=2015 Books We Can't Wait To Read |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/10/2015-books_n_6272070.html |website=] |date=December 10, 2014 |access-date=December 16, 2014}}</ref>
⚫ Reviewers have called Filipacchi "a prodigious postfeminist talent",<ref>{{cite news|title=Vapor|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7867-0617-4|accessdate=29 April 2013|newspaper=Publishers Weekly|date=March 29, 1999|format=unsigned review|quote=Her novel showcases a prodigious postfeminist talent.}}</ref> and a "lovely comic surrealist".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/18/books/plum-s-tarts.html?pagewanted=2|title=Plum's Tarts|last=Sicha|first=Choire|date=18 April 2004|work=]|accessdate=30 April 2013}}</ref> '']'' described her writing style as "reminiscent in certain ways of Muriel Spark ... brisk, witty, knowing, mischievous."<ref>{{Cite news | title = Exploring the slippery nature of desire | work = Boston Globe | accessdate = 2013-04-28 | date = 2005-06-12 | url = http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2005/06/12/exploring_the_slippery_nature_of_desire/?page=full }}</ref> '']'' (referred to in a review by Alexis Soloski in '']'' as having "oddball situations and merrily acidic dialogue"<ref>{{cite news|last=Soloski|first=Alexis|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-05-31/books/page-burners/|title=Page-Burners|date=31 May 2005|work=]|accessdate=30 April 2013}}</ref>) was one of ''The Village Voice'''s top 25 books of the year.<ref>{{Cite news | title = Top Shelf 2005 | work = The Village Voice | accessdate = April 28, 2013 | date = December 6, 2005 | url = http://www.villagevoice.com/2005-12-06/books/top-shelf-2005/full/ }}</ref>


===Misplaced Pages op-ed=== === Misplaced Pages op-ed ===
{{Further2|]|]}} {{further|Misplaced Pages controversies#2013|Criticism of Misplaced Pages#Gender bias}}
In an April 2013 ] for the '']'', Filipacchi made allegations of sexism regarding ]'s classification of American novelists after she noticed multiple editors moving female writers out of the general category of "American novelists" and into a subcategory for "American women novelists". She stated this was a "small, easily fixable thing ... that make it harder and slower for women to gain equality in the literary world."<ref>{{Cite news | issn = 0362-4331 | last = Filipacchi | first = Amanda | title = Misplaced Pages’s Sexism Toward Female Novelists | work = The New York Times | accessdate = 2013-04-28 | date = 2013-04-24 | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/wikipedias-sexism-toward-female-novelists.html }}</ref> The op-ed spurred outcry from feminists and other commentators, who echoed her concerns about sexism and the alleged minimization of female novelists on the site.<ref>{{cite news|last=Rawlinson|first=Kevin|title=Misplaced Pages in sexism row after labelling Harper Lee and others 'women novelists' while men are 'American novelists'|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/wikipedia-in-sexism-row-after-labelling-harper-lee-and-others-women-novelists-while-men-are-american-novelists-8590632.html|accessdate=28 April 2013|newspaper=]|date=26 April 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Zandt|first=Deanna|title=Yes, Misplaced Pages Is Sexist -- That's Why It Needs You|url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/deannazandt/2013/04/26/yes-wikipedia-is-sexist-thats-why-it-needs-you/|accessdate=28 April 2013|newspaper=]|date=26 April 2013}}</ref> Filipacchi subsequently accused editors in a follow-up ''New York Times'' piece of targeting the Misplaced Pages page about her in retaliation for her criticism.<ref>{{cite news|last=Filipacchi|first=Amanda|title=Misplaced Pages’s Sexism|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/wikipedias-sexism.html?_r=0|accessdate=28 April 2013|newspaper=]|date=27 April 2013}}</ref> Andrew Leonard of '']'' described this as "revenge editing" and supported the allegation by quoting combative remarks about Filipacchi made by the primary user involved.<ref>{{cite web|last=Leonard|first=Andrew|title=Misplaced Pages’s shame|url=http://www.salon.com/2013/04/29/wikipedias_shame|accessdate=30 April 2013|website=]|date=30 April 2013}}</ref> Filipacchi later published an additional article in '']'', rebutting media stories that characterized the recategorization of female novelists as the work of a single editor; she noted that at least seven had been responsible for the changes.<ref name="Atlantic">{{cite news|url=http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/04/sexism-on-wikipedia-is-not-the-work-of-a-single-misguided-editor/275405/|title=Sexism on Misplaced Pages Is Not the Work of 'a Single Misguided Editor'|last=Filipacchi|first=Amanda|date=30 April 2013|work=]|accessdate=3 May 2013}}</ref> In an April 2013 ] for '']'', Filipacchi criticized Misplaced Pages for moving female writers into subcategories like "American women novelists" and out of general categories such as "American novelists", calling it a "small, easily fixable thing" that hindered women's equality. She suggested that people may use Misplaced Pages categories "to get ideas for whom to hire, or honor, or read" and unquestioningly use the "American novelists" list.<ref name=NYTimes1>{{Cite news |issn=0362-4331 |last=Filipacchi |first=Amanda |title=Misplaced Pages's Sexism Toward Female Novelists |work=The New York Times |access-date=April 28, 2013 |date=April 24, 2013 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/wikipedias-sexism-toward-female-novelists.html}}</ref> Other writers and commentators echoed her concerns about the perceived minimization of female novelists.<ref>{{cite news |last=Rawlinson |first=Kevin |title=Misplaced Pages in sexism row after labelling Harper Lee and others 'women novelists' while men are 'American novelists' |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/wikipedia-in-sexism-row-after-labelling-harper-lee-and-others-women-novelists-while-men-are-american-novelists-8590632.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130430065935/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/wikipedia-in-sexism-row-after-labelling-harper-lee-and-others-women-novelists-while-men-are-american-novelists-8590632.html |archive-date=April 30, 2013 |url-access=limited |url-status=live |access-date=April 28, 2013 |newspaper=] |date=April 26, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Zandt |first=Deanna |title=Yes, Misplaced Pages Is Sexist – That's Why It Needs You |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/deannazandt/2013/04/26/yes-wikipedia-is-sexist-thats-why-it-needs-you/ |access-date=April 28, 2013 |newspaper=] |date=April 26, 2013}}</ref> In a follow-up piece, Filipacchi stated that editors had targeted her Misplaced Pages biography page in retaliation for her criticism,<ref>{{cite news |last=Filipacchi |first=Amanda |title=Misplaced Pages's Sexism |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/wikipedias-sexism.html|access-date=April 28, 2013 |newspaper=] |date=April 27, 2013}}</ref> which ] covered in more detail in ''].'' Leonard quoted several combative remarks made by the primary proponent of "revenge editing" who was later revealed to be writer ].<ref>{{cite web |last=Leonard |first=Andrew |title=Misplaced Pages's shame |url=http://www.salon.com/2013/04/29/wikipedias_shame |access-date=April 30, 2013 |work=] |date=April 30, 2013}}</ref><ref name=Leonard_revenge>{{cite web |url=http://www.salon.com/2013/05/17/revenge_ego_and_the_corruption_of_wikipedia/ |title=Revenge, ego and the corruption of Misplaced Pages |last=Leonard |first=Andrew |date=May 17, 2013 |work=] |access-date=May 20, 2013}}</ref> Filipacchi later wrote in '']'' that the separate categorization of female novelists was not the work of a single editor, listing seven involved users.<ref name="Atlantic">{{cite news |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/04/sexism-on-wikipedia-is-not-the-work-of-a-single-misguided-editor/275405/ |title=Sexism on Misplaced Pages Is Not the Work of 'a Single Misguided Editor' |last=Filipacchi |first=Amanda |date=April 30, 2013 |work=] |access-date=May 3, 2013}}</ref> Three months later, wrote a personal essay for ''],'' which more humorously described the aftermath of the controversy, discussing how she became engrossed in discussions on Misplaced Pages and criticism site ].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/07/10/my-strange-addiction-wikipedia/ |title=My Strange Addiction: Misplaced Pages |last=Filipacchi |first=Amanda |date=July 10, 2013 |work=] |access-date=July 20, 2013}}</ref>


== Works == == Works ==

⚫ * {{cite book|author=Amanda Filipacchi|title=]|year=1993|publisher=Viking/Penguin|isbn=978-0140178920}}
===Books===
⚫ * {{cite book|author=Amanda Filipacchi|title=]|year=1999|publisher=Carroll & Graf|isbn=978-0786706174}}
* {{cite book|author=Amanda Filipacchi|title=]|date=2006|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=978-0312340322}} * {{cite book |author=Amanda Filipacchi |title=Nude Men |title-link=Nude Men |year=1993 |publisher=Viking/Penguin |isbn=9780140178920}}
⚫ * {{cite book |author=Amanda Filipacchi |title=Vapor |title-link=Vapor (novel) |year=1999 |publisher=Carroll & Graf |isbn=9780786706174}}
⚫ * {{cite book |author=Amanda Filipacchi |title=Love Creeps |title-link=Love Creeps |year=2006 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=9780312340322}}
* {{cite book |author=Amanda Filipacchi |title=The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty |title-link=The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty |year=2015 |publisher=W. W. Norton |isbn=9780393243871}}

===Other publications===
* {{cite news |issn=0362-4331 |last=Filipacchi |first=Amanda |title=Misplaced Pages's Sexism Toward Female Novelists (op-ed) |work=The New York Times |access-date=April 28, 2013 |date=April 24, 2013 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/wikipedias-sexism-toward-female-novelists.html}}
* {{cite magazine |last1=Filipacchi |first1=Amanda |title=The Looks You're Born With and the Looks You're Given |url=http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/looks-youre-born-looks-youre-given |access-date=December 16, 2014 |magazine=] |date=December 12, 2014}}
* {{cite news |last1=Filipacchi |first1=Amanda |title=How To Pose Like a Man |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/opinion/sunday/how-to-pose-like-a-man.html |work=] |date=June 6, 2015}}


==References== ==References==
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==External links== ==External links==
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* *{{Official website|http://www.amandafilipacchi.com}}
*{{IMDb name|2046458|Amanda Filipacchi}} *{{IMDb name|2046458|Amanda Filipacchi}}
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Novelist

Amanda Filipacchi
Amanda Filipacchi in 2006Amanda Filipacchi in 2006
Born (1967-10-10) October 10, 1967 (age 57)
Paris, France
OccupationNovelist
NationalityAmerican, French
EducationHamilton College (BA)
Columbia University
Period1993–present
GenreLiterary fiction
Literary movementPostmodern
ParentsDaniel Filipacchi, Sondra Peterson
Website
www.amandafilipacchi.com

Amanda Filipacchi (/fɪlɪˈpɑːkɪ/; born October 10, 1967) is an American novelist. She was born in Paris and educated in both in France and in the U.S. She is the author of four novels, Nude Men (1993), Vapor (1999), Love Creeps (2005), and The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty (2015). Her fiction has been translated into 13 languages.

Early life and education

Filipacchi was born in Paris, and was educated in France (where she attended the American School of Paris in St. Cloud) and in the U.S. She is the daughter of former model Sondra Peterson and Daniel Filipacchi, chairman emeritus of Hachette Filipacchi Médias. She has been writing since the age of thirteen and completed three unpublished novels in her teenage years. She has been living in New York since she was 17. She attended Hamilton College, from which she graduated with a BA in Creative Writing. At age 20, she tried her hand at non-fiction writing at Rolling Stone magazine. In 1990, Filipacchi enrolled in Columbia University's MFA fiction writing program, where she wrote a master's thesis which she later turned into her first published novel, Nude Men.

Career

In 1992, when Filipacchi was 24, a time shortly before her graduation, her agent, Melanie Jackson, sold Nude Men to Nan Graham at Viking Press. The novel was later translated into ten languages and was anthologized in The Best American Humor 1994 (published by Simon & Schuster).

Filipacchi's second and third novels, Vapor (1999) and Love Creeps (2005, a novel about obsessive love and stalking respectively), were also translated into multiple languages. In 2005, Filipacchi was invited to participate in the 2005 Saint-Amour literary festival, a 10-city tour through Belgium.

External audio
audio icon Interview with Amanda Filipacchi on Love Creeps, The Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC

Reviewers have called Filipacchi "a prodigious postfeminist talent", and a "lovely comic surrealist". The Boston Globe described her writing style as "reminiscent in certain ways of Muriel Spark ... brisk, witty, knowing, mischievous." Love Creeps (referred to in a review by Alexis Soloski in The Village Voice as having "oddball situations and merrily acidic dialogue") was one of The Village Voice's top 25 books of the year, and was included in the syllabus of a course on the comic novel in Columbia University's graduate creative writing program.

In August 2013, Filipacchi sold her novel, The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty, to Norton. According to the publisher, the novel deals with two women going to elaborate lengths to find love. Bustle and HuffPost included it in lists of the most anticipated books of 2015.

Misplaced Pages op-ed

Further information: Misplaced Pages controversies § 2013, and Criticism of Misplaced Pages § Gender bias

In an April 2013 op-ed for The New York Times, Filipacchi criticized Misplaced Pages for moving female writers into subcategories like "American women novelists" and out of general categories such as "American novelists", calling it a "small, easily fixable thing" that hindered women's equality. She suggested that people may use Misplaced Pages categories "to get ideas for whom to hire, or honor, or read" and unquestioningly use the "American novelists" list. Other writers and commentators echoed her concerns about the perceived minimization of female novelists. In a follow-up piece, Filipacchi stated that editors had targeted her Misplaced Pages biography page in retaliation for her criticism, which Andrew Leonard covered in more detail in Salon. Leonard quoted several combative remarks made by the primary proponent of "revenge editing" who was later revealed to be writer Robert Clark Young. Filipacchi later wrote in The Atlantic that the separate categorization of female novelists was not the work of a single editor, listing seven involved users. Three months later, wrote a personal essay for The Wall Street Journal, which more humorously described the aftermath of the controversy, discussing how she became engrossed in discussions on Misplaced Pages and criticism site Wikipediocracy.

Works

Books

Other publications

References

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  2. "Amanda Filipacchi". WorldCat. Retrieved May 27, 2013.
  3. ^ Ardisson, Thierry. interview Amanda Filipacchi, DailyMotion, INA.fr, putative broadcast date October 17, 2010. Retrieved June 6, 2013. See also her earlier "anti-portrait chinois" and her deft replies to Ardisson's verbal challenges.
  4. ^ Hoban, Phoebe (January 14, 1993). "Brief Lives: Skin Deep". New York. p. 30. Retrieved April 27, 2013.
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  9. "New & Recommended". Boston Globe. June 19, 2005. Retrieved April 27, 2013.
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  12. "Vapor" (unsigned review). Publishers Weekly. March 29, 1999. Retrieved April 29, 2013. Her novel showcases a prodigious postfeminist talent.
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  22. Filipacchi, Amanda (April 24, 2013). "Misplaced Pages's Sexism Toward Female Novelists". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
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  24. Zandt, Deanna (April 26, 2013). "Yes, Misplaced Pages Is Sexist – That's Why It Needs You". Forbes. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
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  26. Leonard, Andrew (April 30, 2013). "Misplaced Pages's shame". Salon. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
  27. Leonard, Andrew (May 17, 2013). "Revenge, ego and the corruption of Misplaced Pages". Salon. Retrieved May 20, 2013.
  28. Filipacchi, Amanda (April 30, 2013). "Sexism on Misplaced Pages Is Not the Work of 'a Single Misguided Editor'". The Atlantic. Retrieved May 3, 2013.
  29. Filipacchi, Amanda (July 10, 2013). "My Strange Addiction: Misplaced Pages". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved July 20, 2013.

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