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Melissa Pritchard: March 2010
Melissa Pritchard’s stories often cross an invisible line—between normality, as we usually define it, and, well, the not-normal. The line might be on the border between the erotic and the holy, between wisdom and folly, perhaps even between reality and fiction.
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Melanie Rae Thon: January 2010
Melanie Rae Thon has an imagination that turns no one away. With great tenderness, she draws out the stories of outcasts and strangers....
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Kelcey Parker: November 2009
It is sometimes offered as a tenet of fiction that you can get away with absurdity if you do it emphatically enough, and early enough in the story. If you can seduce us into suspending our disbelief at the beginning, we’re yours for the whole ride. Kelcey Parker executes this strategy admirably in her short stories.
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Pinckney Benedict: May 2009
Drawing on his West Virginia upbringing, Pinckney Benedict writes fiction grounded in the Appalachians, a world of clear-eyed, dappled beauty and also of terror, violence, eeriness, and magic.
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Janet Peery: February 2009
In her fiction, Janet Peery presides over an elegant banquet. A writer’s writer who explores themes of flight, renewal, and remaking in the American West, she writes prose that is satisfying, varied, and delicious.
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Issue 64
Art by Gerhard Richter, Jeremy Begbie on Orthodoxy, Interview with Les Murray, Fiction by Scott Russell Sanders.
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