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Tag: Erin Flanagan

IMAGINARY MUSEUMS by Nicolette Polek, a very real story collection from Soft Skull Press, reviewed by Erin Flanagan

This slim collection of compact stories left me dumbfounded that we’re given the agency to run our own lives when … More

Erin Flanagan, Imaginary Museums, Nicolette Polek, Soft Skull Press

AVERY COLT IS A SNAKE, A THIEF, A LIAR, a debut novel by Ron A. Austin, reviewed by Erin Flanagan

Avery Colt is a kid who could use a break. In addition to the everyday struggles of adolescence, he’s caught … More

a Liar, a Thief, Avery Colt Is a Snake, Erin Flanagan, Ron A. Austin, Southeast Missouri State University Press

Erin Flanagan Reviews Jamel Brinkley’s Debut Story Collection, A LUCKY MAN

Absent fathers abound in this debut collection of stories, leaving behind their complicated legacies of race and love. As Eric … More

A Lucky Man, Erin Flanagan, Graywolf Press, Jamel Brinkley

“Momentum of Connections”: Erin Flanagan Interviews Augustus Rose, Author of THE READYMADE THIEF

Augustus Rose’s first novel, The Readymade Thief, is a fervent mix of art, deceit, puzzles, subterfuge, coincidence, and meaning, all … More

Augustus Rose, Erin Flanagan, The Readymade Thief, Viking

Genuine and True: An Interview with Melissa Fraterrigo, Author of GLORY DAYS

Melissa Fraterrigo’s first novel in stories, Glory Days, captures the desperation and beauty of living in the hardscrabble Midwest. Populated … More

Erin Flanagan, Glory Days, Melissa Fraterrigo, University of Nebraska Press

Sara Majka’s CITIES I’VE NEVER LIVED IN

From the very start of Cities I’ve Never Lived In, Majka plunks the reader into a world where opposites coexist: … More

Cities I've Never Lived In, Erin Flanagan, Graywolf Press, Sara Majka

Amy Gustine’s YOU SHOULD PITY US INSTEAD

Amy Gustine’s first collection of stories demonstrates a remarkable range, not only in situation and character, but also in the … More

Amy Gustine, Erin Flanagan, Sarabande Books, You Should Pity Us Instead

THE LOSS OF ALL LOST THINGS, by Amina Gautier

Winner of the Elixir Press 2014 Fiction Award, Gautier’s collection The Loss of all Lost Things centers, not surprisingly, around … More

Amina Gautier, Elixir Press, Erin Flanagan, THE LOSS OF ALL LOST THINGS

Stealing Breath: An Interview with Bryn Chancellor

Bryn Chancellor’s collection When Are You Coming Home? won the 2014 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. Her stories have appeared in … More

Bryn Chancellor, Erin Flanagan, Prairie Schooner, Prairie Schooner Book Prize, University of Nebraska Press, When Are You Coming Home?

BLACKOUT, by Sarah Hepola

Blackout follows Sarah Hepola’s life as a drinker, starting with sips in grade school and progressing through her first drunk … More

Blackout, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget, Erin Flanagan, Grand Central Publishing, New York, Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget, Sarah Hepola

THERE’S SOMETHING I WANT YOU TO DO, by Charles Baxter

The epigraph from Primo Levi’s The Reawakening sets the stage for Baxter’s latest collection: “Everybody’s moral universe, suitably interpreted, comes … More

Benny Takemitsu, Charles Baxter, Erin Flanagan, moral universe, Pantheon, Primo Levi, There's Something I Want You to Do, traditional stories

Get in Trouble, by Kelly Link

Kelly Link’s fiction follows the same kind of logic that lets you coast through a dream where your partner is … More

Bruce Sterling, Erin Flanagan, Get in Trouble, Kelly Link, Random House, Sherry Vint

Almost Famous Women, by Megan Mayhew Bergman

In her second story collection, Almost Famous Women, Megan Mayhew Bergman delves into the lives of real women who skirted … More

Almost Famous Women, Erin Flanagan, Megan Mayhew Bergman, Scribner

Faulty Predictions, by Karin Lin-Greenberg

Karin Lin-Greenberg’s collection, Faulty Predictions, winner of the prestigious Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, wonderfully captures the moments when … More

Erin Flanagan, Faulty Predictions, Karin Lin-Greenberg, University of Georgia Press

The Year of Perfect Happiness, by Becky Adnot-Haynes

In this collection, winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction, Adnot-Haynes mines the iffy world of early … More

Becky Adnot-Haynes, Erin Flanagan, The Year of Perfect Happiness, University of North Texas Press

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