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Is Obama Dissing Indie Bookstores?: Monday’s Margins
Posted in Book Rate Also tagged Barack Obama, McSweeney's, Monday's Margins, Ron Rash, Serena
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A Dreamy Look: A Review of Diane Williams’s Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty
If flash fiction appeals to a new, attenuated attention span among some readers, Diane Williams’s stories reward expanded attention and encourage rereading.
Posted in Book Reviews Also tagged Diane Williams, Gary Lutz, McSweeney's, Short Stories, Story Collections
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G-rock, Arkansas: An Interview with Novelist John Brandon
Although John Brandon is an MFA graduate of the writing program at Washington University in St. Louis, while drafting the novel Arkansas, he “worked at a lumber mill, a windshield warehouse, a Coca-Cola distributor, and several small factories producing goods made of rubber and plastic.”
Posted in Author Interviews Also tagged Arkansas, John Brandon, McSweeney's, Novelists
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Paul Collins
“I don’t know if McSweeney’s could have happened 15 or 20 years ago. It has an almost defining reliance on e-mail.”
Posted in Author Interviews Also tagged Editors, McSweeney's, Paul Collins, Robert Birnbaum
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