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Eliza Barry Callahan

Biography

Eliza Barry Callahan

Eliza Barry Callahan is a writer and artist from New York, New York. Shortly after receiving her BA from Columbia, where she studied visual art, art history and poetry, she returned to the university to receive an MFA in writing. Her writing has been published in Frieze, The Believer, The Brooklyn Rail and BOMB. She also writes, performs and releases music via Los Angeles-based label ANTI- Records.

Eliza Barry Callahan

Books by Eliza Barry Callahan

The Hearing Test
by Eliza Barry Callahan - Fiction, Women's Fiction

When the narrator of THE HEARING TEST, an artist in her late 20s, awakens one morning to a deep drone in her right ear, she is diagnosed with Sudden Deafness but is offered no explanation for its cause. As the specter of total deafness looms, she keeps a record of her year --- a score of estrangement and enchantment, of luck and loneliness, of the chance occurrences to which she becomes attuned --- while living alone in a New York City studio apartment with her dog. Through a series of fleeting and often humorous encounters --- with neighbors, an ex-lover, doctors, strangers, family members, faraway friends, and with the lives and works of artists, filmmakers, musicians and philosophers --- making meaning becomes a form of consolation and curiosity, a form of survival.