Laird Hunt's masterful story collection capturing one summer's day in an Indiana farming community, 1982.
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Laird Hunt’s “revelatory (NYT)” story collection capturing one summer’s day in the Indiana community where the beloved National Book Award Finalist ZORRIE bloomed.
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10.03.2026 14:55
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How Much Does Capitalism Cost? Ask These Prospectors.
My review of Ian McGuire's new one is in the NYTimes today: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/b...
24.02.2026 15:59
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I remember you well, Perry! In fact I'm getting set to do another serial, which by coincidence is probably going to be a sequel to In the House (where the boy goes to look for his mother), and just showed Ellipsis to the person putting it together. You don't have a spare #6 lying around do you?
24.02.2026 03:58
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Board residue from today’s class on @stephengrahamjones.bsky.social THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS…
12.11.2025 23:32
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Yep me too! A 1979. I traded up for a 185s a few years later but the 110 was where my heart was…
11.11.2025 23:48
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You too, eh?
11.11.2025 14:11
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I actually write in whatever single spaced default font Word defaults to and then only when it gets close to ready do I switch to courier new. Probably it’s as simple as it being a bigger font. My work almost always errs on the side of category brevity so…
29.07.2025 21:46
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Have a fantastic trip, Matt! Can't wait to see what comes out of the research...
15.06.2025 12:29
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lol!
25.02.2025 16:15
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Cracking up that after switching from giving my first name (routinely transformed into Lars, Lard (hollered at the doctor's a few days ago), Bear, Larry and, even, Javier) when I order coffee, to my last, it too has been alchemized, these last weeks, into Hun, Ha, Hum, Hart and, now, Hoat.
04.01.2025 21:42
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Such a wonderful review, Kate. Thank you for it. And for what you say here. Indeed I'd love to pick your brain in this context some time...
02.01.2025 18:03
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My cat, Artemis, haunting a page of my witch-book sequel…
01.01.2025 23:24
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#cats #christmas #hello
25.12.2024 21:31
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Artemis #cats
23.12.2024 15:31
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14.12.2024 16:54
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Good advice. #nyc
06.12.2024 20:40
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#NYC
28.11.2024 20:13
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Loved Weatherford’s Pedro Paramo so pretty excited to see what he’s done with the stories… scored at Third Place in Seattle…
22.11.2024 23:26
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Sightings…
21.11.2024 03:18
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Lying here, thinking about the news, with the theme song to the Muppet Show playing on sinister repeat in my head…
20.11.2024 01:42
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