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Samuel Thomas Martin: March 2013
Samuel Thomas Martin is possessed of the ability to spin a good yarn—and also to plumb the depths. In his novels and short fiction he marries canny and satisfying storytelling with....
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Jessie Van Eerden: December 2012
Jessie Van Eerden writes with force and sensitivity about what Dennis Covington calls “the only ethnic group in America not allowed to have a history”—the residents of her native Appalachia....
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Larry Woiwode: October 2012
“Woiwode is an American original. He writes with a sense of both the quicksilver movement of language on the run and the reflective inner drag and furrowing of thought. The scarred beauty of his sentences and his eye and ear for metaphor...."
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Elizabeth Tarver: June 2012
Elizabeth Tarver’s subject is all that is noble and ridiculous about the modern south...the absurdity of pride, the pressure of convention, and the small-mindedness of insular places....
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Rubén Degollado: April 2012
Throughout his fiction, Rubén Degollado devotes himself to one American family, the Izquierdos of the Rio Grande Valley on the Texas-Mexico border. In the valley, and in this family, a microcosmic clash of ancient and modern world views takes place....
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