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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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David McGlynn: October 2008
In both his fiction and nonfiction, David McGlynn’s great theme is youth: its pains, confusions, and glories, its energy and idealism, its awakening to the possibilities of sex and work, tragedy and betrayal, and its potential for extraordinary goodness.
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Elaine Neil Orr: July 2008
Elaine Neil Orr tells the truth about the way modern westerners think. Perhaps because she was raised in Nigeria, she has some critical distance from the American mind.
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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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