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JR: I first discovered Eric Puchner when his debut collection hit the big time, Music Through The Floor. It reminded me of a young Tobias Wolff, especially poignant and heartfelt, but cold with realism, maybe like Carver and Ford. I know that’s heavy praise, and his new novel, Model Home is about to hit the stores, so check out this essay, as a kind of preview…
The Stories of…
It’s hard for me to name a single book that made me want to be a writer, since every good book I finish makes me want to sit down and write, but I do remember the first one I fell in love
Continue reading When We Fell In Love – Eric Puchner
I first discovered Elwood Reid with his collection of short stories, What Salmon Know. It’s a tight collection of realist fiction from the margins of America. Elwood continues to write books, and recently delivered the fantastic DB, which gives a fictional account of DB Cooper and what a great mystery he really became by jumping out of that plane. The story follows Cooper after the jump and imagines his life had he lived, well, I mean we all know he lived, right? Elwood was one of my first choices when we got this series going, and I’m thrilled he’s involved.
JR: At this point you’re all hearing about The Imperfectionists, or you should be. You can read my review here. As soon as I heard about Tom Rachman and his brilliant debut I contacted him and he jumped at the chance to contribute to our When We Fell in Love series. I’m thrilled to have Mr. Rachman here on the blog, and hope everyone picks up his novel, it will blow you away.
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