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Christina Askounis: October 2007
Reading Christina Askounis is like watching an Olympic figure skater. What you notice first is the delicate, polished, graceful outward form: the energy, the movement, the invented world as bright and solid as a sheet of ice.
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Juliana Baggott: November 2006
It's sheer delight to watch the mind of Julianna Baggott at play. Her poetry and fiction are marked by a childlike, rapacious curiosity, vivid imagination, and unselfconscious wit—and her writing is also polished and full of style.
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Moira Crone: August 2006
In her stories about the tightly cloistered world of women in the small-town south of the fifties and sixties, Moira Crone illustrates what Flannery O'Connor called “the realism of distances”—the ability to see “near things with their extensions of meaning and thus [see] far things close up.”
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Tom Noyes: February 2006
Fiction writer Tom Noyes's people are charming cynics, clever men and women who wear their intelligence lightly; they're as manic and nervy as they are instantly likeable.
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Elizabeth Dewberry: November 2005
Novelist, essayist, and playwright Elizabeth Dewberry writes unflinchingly about the traumas of abuse, betrayal, and manipulation inside marriages and families—but her stories never devolve into self-pity or preachy, moralizing pabulum.
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Issue 71
Fiction by Larry Woiwode, interview with Joe Henry, art by Fabian Debora, essay by Barry Moser.
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