A Distant Father by Antonio Skármeta is a spare but arresting novella. A master at work, Skármeta proves that it isn’t necessary to painstakingly draw every individual
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A Distant Father by Antonio Skármeta is a spare but arresting novella. A master at work, Skármeta proves that it isn’t necessary to painstakingly draw every individual
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Showing Him Lou Gaglia Sobbing, she drew his big stupid face on the old oak tree, then smashed into
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I first met Lauren Groff several years ago during her residency at Ragdale in Lake Forest, Illinois. She was still enjoying the praise for her debut novel, The Monsters of Templeton, had just released her short story collection,
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If it wasn’t clear before, I’ll spell it out now: MeeMaw had something that was winnowing her bones, said the doctors, and it came with a side helping of dementia.
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That which is inside you must be trusted. Soul’s compass. These seas are not familiar, the wake drifts in an odd direction and the tiller shivers beneath the unsteady hand.
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Twenty years ago, those of us who longed for physical violence had to either beat each other up in the front yards of our rural houses, as my best friend and I often did, or resort
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As he smashed the fire extinguisher through the Vend-O-Matic’s Plexiglass window, Matthew thought of a first sentence: “On Monday morning, Hank Peterson’s boss called him into his office to discuss his performance.”
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I was reading when she called me, collect, from Italy. She was drunk. I could hear voices in the background—the familiar muffled hum of pub sounds.
There’s a man here, she said, who’s hitting on me.
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Reviewed by Robert Long Foreman Ancient Oceans of Central
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