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Archive for 2013

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Book of the Week: Tumbledown, by Robert Boswell

by The Editors

This week’s feature is Robert Boswell’s new novel, Tumbledown, which was published last week by Graywolf. Boswell is the author of six previous novels, three story collections, and two books of nonfiction. He is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Iowa School of Letters Award for Fiction, a Lila Wallace/Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, the PEN West Award for Fiction, the John Gassner Prize for Playwriting, and the Evil Companions Award. He’s also published more than 70 stories and essays, which have appeared in such places as the New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, […]


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Book-of-the-Week Winners: A Nearly Perfect Copy

by The Editors

Last week’s feature was Allison Amend’s new novel, A Nearly Perfect Copy, and we’re pleased to announce the winners: Shirley Boulay (@sboulaywrites) Rebecca Stead (@rebstead) Linda Stevenson (@LindaMStevenson) Congrats! To claim your free copy, please email us at the following address: winners [at] fictionwritersreview.com If you’d like to be eligible for future giveaways, please visit our Twitter Page and “follow” us! Thanks to all of you who are fans. We appreciate your support. Let us know your favorite new books out there!


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Coming Through in a Storm: An Interview with Peter Anderson

It wasn’t until Peter Anderson began commuting by train from Joliet for his job in the heart of Chicago’s downtown financial district that he unearthed perhaps the most valuable aspect for any fiction writer: time. Nick Ostdick speaks with Anderson about his debut novel, Wheatyard, and how he turned his scribblings during his daily commute into the beginnings of a literary career.


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Book of the Week: A Nearly Perfect Copy, by Allison Amend

by The Editors

This week’s feature is Allison Amend’s new novel, A Nearly Perfect Copy, which was recently published by Nan A. Talese / Doubleday. Amend, a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, is the author of the Independent Publisher Book Award-winning short story collection Things That Pass for Love and the novel Stations West, which was a finalist for the 2011 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the Oklahoma Book Award. Her new novel, A Nearly Perfect Copy, was published in April. She lives in New York City, where she teaches creative writing at Lehman College and at the Red Earth […]


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Book-of-the-Week Winners: The Movement of Stars

by The Editors

Last week’s feature was Amy Brill’s debut novel, The Movement of Stars, and we’re pleased to announce the winners: Susan Paige (@SusanPWrites) Susan Campbell (@weatherscreek) Tania James (@taniajam) Congrats! To claim your free copy, please email us at the following address: winners [at] fictionwritersreview.com If you’d like to be eligible for future giveaways, please visit our Twitter Page and “follow” us! Thanks to all of you who are fans. We appreciate your support. Let us know your favorite new books out there!


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It’s the Act of Storytelling that Redeems: An Interview with Bryan Furuness

by Philip Graham

“Here’s a theory: To be a kid with a live mind is to be deluded and self-involved, but also curious and evolving at hyperspeed. To be insightful in surprising ways, totally off base in other ways, but never afraid to make sweeping pronouncements, like a little de Tocqueville in the Land of Adults.” Philip Graham talks with Bryan Furuness about his novel The Lost Episodes of Revie Bryson.


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Villains and Heroes: An Interview with Samuel Sattin

by Sean Beaudoin

Samuel Sattin’s debut novel League of Somebodies follows Lenard Sikophsky, whose father has been feeding him plutonium since infancy in order to make him into a real-life superhero. Author Sean Beaudoin sits down with Sattin to talk with him about his book, the progressivism of comic books, early comic influences, origin stories, and more.




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