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Kathy Dobie is an investigative journalist notable for her coverage of sexual assault. She has written for Harper's Magazine , GQ , The New York Times and Salon , among others. [1] [2] Her first book, The Only Girl in the Car, was published in 2004.
Jan 9, 2012 · Kathy Dobie retraces the eight-day, fifteen-state, AK-47-inclusive journey of Ryan, Dylan, and Lee-Grace Dougherty—and discovers that the siblings' saga is even weirder than you thought. By ...
Kathy Dobie tells the tale of a career criminal who missed prison so badly, he pulled a brazen reverse Shawshank—and damn near got away with it AWOL in America: When Desertion is the Only Option AWOL, French Leave, the Grand Bounce, jumping ship, going over the hill—in every country, in every age, whenever and wherever there has been a ...
Mar 2, 2004 · Kathy Dobie treads fearlessly in that undiscovered country."--Haven Kimmel author of A Girl Named Zippy “Kathy Dobie writes a prose so fine that she leaves the reader breathless with pleasure.”--Richard Rodriguez “ The Only Girl in the Car is a memoir at its best--haunting honesty combined with literary grace. An impossible task, but this ...
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Jan 5, 2016 · 182. By Kathy Dobie. Jan. 5, 2016. A dull, frigid winter morning. Overhead, the sky was locked in gray, only occasionally releasing an ashen, icy flake or two, more like iron shavings than snow ...
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by Kathy Dobie. First appeared in Harper’s Magazine, August 1996. Illustration by Sandra Dionisi. As a child, I courted simplicity and goodness. I’d fill a soup bowl with water, add leaves from the hedge, and eat it with a doll’s spoon, slowly, until I was calm. The world was gorgeous and terrible — lightning, God, my father in a suit ...
Kathy Dobie is a respected writer who published an account of her teen years in the 1960s in The Only Girl in the Car: A Memoir. Dobie also wrote about this period of her life in Harper's in 1996. Both her article and her memoir relate her longing for sexual relations from a young age and her loss of virginity at fourteen years old.
