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Jeremiah Chamberlin

Editor-in-Chief/Publisher

Jeremiah Chamberlin teaches at the University of Michigan. He is also a Contributing Editor for Poets & Writers Magazine. His fiction, criticism, literary interviews, and essays have appeared in such places as Absinthe, Flyway, Glimmer Train, Granta, The New York Times Book Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Vagabond, and The Virginia Quarterly Review.


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Book of the Week: The Terror of Living, by Urban Waite

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

Each week we give away several free copies of a featured novel or story collection as part of our Book-of-the-Week program. Last week we featured Erika Dreifus’s story collection Quiet Americans, and we’re pleased to announce the winners: Steve Woodward, Marianna Taylor, and NancyKay Shapiro. Congratulations! Each will receive a signed copy of this new collection. This week we’re featuring Urban Waite’s The Terror of Living. Waite grew up in Seattle and studied writing at Western Washington University and Emerson College. His short fiction has appeared in such places as The Best of the West Anthology, The Southern Review, Gulf […]


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Book of the Week: Sarah/Sara, by Jacob Paul

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

Each week we give away several free copies of a featured novel or story collection as part of our Book-of-the-Week program. Last week we featured Ben Spivey’s Flowing in the Gossamer Fold, and we’re pleased to announce the winners: Sarah Comer, Maggie Bertucci Hamper, and Kendra Langford Shaw. Congratulations! Each will receive a signed copy of this new novel. This week we’re featuring Jacob Paul’s Sarah/Sara. The author, who is an Associate Professor at Utah State, where he recently received his PhD, was formerly in the finance industry. On the morning of September 11th of 2001, he was in Tower […]


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Book of the Week: Flowing in the Gossamer Fold, by Ben Spivey

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

Each week we give away several free copies of a featured novel or story collection as part of our Book-of-the-Week program. Last week we featured Charles Baxter’s Gryphon: New and Selected Stories, and we’re pleased to announce the winners: Jen Michaels, Rob Schmitt, and Matt Bell. Congratulations! Each will receive a signed, first-edition of this new novel. This week we’re featuring Ben Spivey’s novel Flowing in the Gossamer Fold. Spivey is the co-founder with David Peak of Blue Square Press. In fact, this book is the Press’s first publication. In his October review of the book for The Collagist, J.A. […]


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The World's Most Literary Rent Party Ever

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

On Sunday, February 6th, join literary greats such as Mary Gaitskill, George Saunders, Rick Moody, Amy Hempel, Gary Shteyngart, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Hannah Tinti at PS 122 in New York’s East Village as they throw “The World’s Most Literary Rent Party Ever,” to raise money for Diana Colbert, wife of novelist Charles Bock (author of Beautiful Children). In 2009 Colbert was diagnosed with leukemia and had a bone marrow transplant. But in October of this year, the leukemia returned. So friends of the Bocks–writers Fiona Maazel, Mary-Beth Hughes, and Leigh Newman–decided to help by throwing this literary fund-raiser. As […]


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Book of the Week: In a Strange Room, by Damon Galgut

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

Each week we give away several free copies of a featured novel or story collection as part of our Book-of-the-Week program. Last week we featured Elegies for the Brokenhearted, by Christie Hodgen, and we’re pleased to announce the winners: Brooks Rexroat, Kierstyn Lamour, and Kate Hill Cantrill. Congratulations! Each will receive a copy of this new novel. This week we’re featuring Damon Galgut’s novel In a Strange Room. Though this title came out in the U.K. from Atlantic Books last year, it’s only recently been released in the States, published here by EuropaEditions. In September the book was shortlisted for […]


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Book of the Week: Elegies for the Brokenhearted, by Christie Hodgen

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

Each week we give away several free copies of a featured novel or story collection as part of our Book-of-the-Week program. Last week we featured Graham Moore’s The Sherlockian, and we’re pleased to announce the winners: John Horniblow, Maggie Hess, and David Littlejohn. Congratulations! Each will receive a copy of this new novel. This week we’re featuring Elegies for the Brokenhearted, by Christie Hodgen. Published this year by W.W. Norton, Elegies is Hodgen’s third book. She is also the author of the novel Hello, I Must be Going, and the story collection A Jeweler’s Eye for Flaw, which won the […]


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Book of the Week Giveaway: The Sherlockian, by Graham Moore

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

Each week we give away several free copies of a featured novel or story collection as part of our Book-of-the-Week program. Last week we featured the Winter 2011 Issue of Glimmer Train Stories, and we’re pleased to announce the winners: Rose White, Kristin Pedroja, and Lowell Mick White. Congratulations! Each will receive a copy of this new issue, signed by the editors. This week we’re featuring Graham Moore’s The Sherlockian. Out this month from Twelve, the novel is based, in part, on a true story: In 2004, it was announced that the missing journal of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had […]


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Book of the Week Giveaway: How They Were Found, by Matt Bell (Redux)

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

Each week we give away several free copies of a featured novel or story collection as part of our Book-of-the-Week program. Last week we featured Matt Bell’s How They Were Found, and we’re pleased to announce the winners: Suzanne Buckman-Beach, Melissa Scholes Young, and Thomas Gagnon. Congratulations! Each will receive a copy of the book, signed by the author. This week we’re also featuring Matt Bell’s How They Were Found. No, it’s not Groundhog Day. As you may have noticed, FWR is getting a bit of a face-lift. Or, rather, we’re in the process of completing a range of digital […]


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Book of the Week Giveaway: Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives, by Brad Watson

by Jeremiah Chamberlin

Each week we give away several free copies of a featured novel or story collection as part of our Book-of-the-Week program. Last week we featured Picking Bones From Ash, by Marie Mutsuki Mockett, and we’re pleased to announce the winners: Lucy Biederman, Thea Burgess, and Brian Boyle. Congratulations! Each will receive a copy of the book, signed by the author. This week we’re featuring Brad Watson’s Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives. Stories in this collection have appeared in such places as The New Yorker, Granta, The Idaho Review, The Greensboro Review, Ecotone, and The Oxford American. In the […]




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