Year: 2011

When We Fell In Love – Larry Watson

JE: High atop my reading list is Larry Watson’s American Boy, just released from the superlative Milkweed Editions. American Boy came highly recommended from my pal Benjamin Percy, who had this to say: “There are a handful of writers I push on everyone I meet, and Larry Watson is one of them.…

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Oubliette by David Long

David Long’s story “Oubliette” appears in the current issue of the New Yorker. His prose style is so lucid, so devoid of vernacular cant and style that screams style that’s it’s a pleasure to read.…

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What JE’s Reading

JE: Now that I’ve got a draft of my latest novel behind me, and I’ve promised my agent and editor (a little begrudgingly) to take a rest on blurbing for a season, I’ve finally had a chance to start catching up on my TBR list—that is, my other TBR list, the one composed of books I’m under absolutely no obligation to read as a blurber, blogger, reviewer, or friend.…

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When We Fell In Love – Eric Olsen

Eric Olsen is the co-author with Glenn Schaeffer of We Wanted to Be Writers: Life, Love, and Literature at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (Skyhorse Pub, 2011), wherein the two alumni of the program offer a rollicking and insightful blend of interviews, commentary, advice, gossip, anecdotes, analyses, history, and asides with more than 20 graduates and teachers at the now legendary Iowa Writers’ Workshop between 1974 and 1978.  …

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Widow: Stories by Michelle Latiolais

Widow: Stories by Michelle Latiolais is a compact collection, intimate and charged. The female protagonists in these eighteen stories are unnamed and vary in ages, and the theme of widowhood is entwined with stories that share a sense of loneliness and loss.…

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