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Book-of-the-Week Winners: <em>The Carrion Birds</em>

Book-of-the-Week Winners: The Carrion Birds

Last week’s feature was Urban Waite’s new novel The Carrion Birds, and we’re pleased to announce the winners:

Graeme Wilson (@WilsonVideo)
R. A. Gallagher (@R_A_Gallagher)
Tanuja Jagernauth (@tanuja_devi)

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Book of the Week: <em>The Carrion Birds</em>, by Urban Waite

Book of the Week: The Carrion Birds, by Urban Waite

This week’s feature is Urban Waite’s new novel, The Carrion Birds, which was published last week by William Morrow. Urban Waite is the author of The Terror of Living, named one of Esquire’s Ten Best Books of 2011. His short fiction has appeared in the Best of the West 2009 anthology, the Southern Review, and [...]

Border Crossing: An Interview with Urban Waite

Border Crossing: An Interview with Urban Waite

In his 2011 FWR interview, Urban Waite told Cam Terwilliger he was “obsessed with the idea of the past dictating the present.” Terwilliger sits down again with Waite to discuss his new book, The Carrion Birds, just out from William Morrow, and is pleased to see those same obsessions at work in the new novel.

<em>I Am an Executioner: Love Stories</em>, by Rajesh Parameswaran

I Am an Executioner: Love Stories, by Rajesh Parameswaran

It’s high time for some heartbreak: Urban Waite describes how love’s power to heal or destroy animates Rajesh Parameswaran’s debut story collection.

<em>Fires of Our Choosing</em>, by Eugene Cross

Fires of Our Choosing, by Eugene Cross

Winner of the 2009 Dzanc Prize, Eugene Cross puts his winnings to good use with his incendiary debut collection Fires of Our Choosing. With a knack for crystalline, precise moments, Cross pins down characters along the Lake Erie shoreline like a knife thrower at the top of his game.

The Art of the Chase: An Interview with Urban Waite

The Art of the Chase: An Interview with Urban Waite

Debut novelist Urban Waite enjoys a character-driven thriller, which is exactly what he delivers with The Terror of Living. In conversation with Cam Terwilliger, Waite reveals how the selfish characters of Graham Greene shaped his idea of the perfect book, how an editor who understands the writer’s vision can only help a book, and how flexibility can be the novelist’s best friend.