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Emerging Writers Network (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Today's suggestions come from Pamela Ryder: In the Year of Long Division , by Dawn Raffel This amazing collection of stories should not be missed. With language as clear and crisp as the dawning of a clear new day, the characters reveal themselves and the workings of their most mysterious hearts. Nightwork , by Christine Schutt Death , loss, love are rendered to perfection in this collection...
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Matt Bell (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
... Yes, the metals in my mouth, she said, are singing. --"You Drive," from Nightwork by Christine Schutt
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<HTMLGIANT> (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
What do I know about C.E. Morgan? Not much. Basically, three things. (1) She wrote a novel called All The Living. (2a) Christine Schutt chose her as one of the “5 under 35” thing that the National Book Awards does. To me a Schutt recommendation is as good as gold, and knowing that one of [...]
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<HTMLGIANT> (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Terese Svoboda is one of the best writers of her generation. HTMLGIANT readers especially will notice at once the tell-tale signs of the pee-free classroom commanded by one Gordon Lish, but her work operates on a global level as impressively as it does syntactically. It has the concision and dark, domestic play of Christine Schutt [...]
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Bluestalking Reader (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
... for Telex from Cuba C. E. Morgan , All the Living (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009) Selected by Christine Schutt , 2004 Fiction Finalist for Florida Lydia Peelle , Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing ( HarperCollins , 2009) Selected by Salvatore Scibona , 2008 Fiction Finalist for The End Karen Russell , St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (Vintage, 2006) Selected by Dan...