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Valerie Sayers: May 2005
No one writes about the misfortunes of the body quite as wryly as Valerie Sayers, who describes herself as a “cheerful hypochondriac.”
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Christine Lehner: March 2005
In her fiction, Christine Lehner attends to the human body. With great tenderness, she uncovers a gothic beauty in the body's failures, illnesses, and longings, a beauty inseparable from its frailty.
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Beth Bosworth: August 2004
Never far from a sense of life's tragedy and loss, Beth Bosworth observes the world with a keen and earnest intelligence that by its very alertness, its very engagement, contains its own hard-edged joy.
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Peggy Payne: June 2004
For our friend Dan Wakefield, author of How Do We Know When It's God?, finding novelist Peggy Payne's work was love at first sight.
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Virginia Stem Owens: June 2003
As a writer and thinker, Virginia Stem Owens is a combination of Texan toughness (a la Ann Richards and Molly Ivins), intellectual curiosity (think Annie Dillard and Stephen Hawking), and literary grace (part Studs Terkel, part Graham Greene).
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