Long Drive Home
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Will Allison, whose beautifully written debut novel, What You Have Left, was released in 2007, discusses his followup, Long Drive Home, published this month by Free Press.
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Theater video tags: 2011
Eleanor Henderson
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Ten Thousand Saints, the debut novel by Eleanor Henderson, whose article about Charles McLeod's first book appears in the current issue, will be published by Ecco in June.
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My American Unhappiness
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Leading up to the publication of his second novel, Dean Bakopoulos is releasing a series of videos titled "Inventory of American Unhappiness." Bakopoulos's novel, My American Unhappiness, forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in June, is the story of Zeke Pappas, the director of a humanities institute in Wisconsin, who is pursuing his life's work: a survey of American unhappiness.
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Ish Klein
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Poet Ish Klein reads "Smoke Outside" from her second collection, Moving Day, published this month by the independent press Canarium Books.
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Kevin Young
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In this 2011 video, poet Kevin Young reads from his collection Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels (Random House, 2011) at the Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, New York.
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If You Knew Then What I Know Now
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This short film by Tucker Capps, featuring music by Goldmund, is inspired by "First," an essay from Ryan Van Meter's debut collection, If You Knew Then What I Know Now, to be published next month by Sarabande Books.
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When the Killing's Done by T. C. Boyle
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This especially cinematic (and dramatic) book trailer for T. C. Boyle's thirteenth novel, When the Killing's Done, published last week by Viking, was directed by Jamieson Fry. Check out the first lines of this and eleven more new and noteworthy books in this issue's Page One.
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The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady
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This trailer for Elizabeth Stuckey-French's second novel, The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady, published next week by Doubleday, is directed and edited by Ben Mekler. Stuckey-French's short stories have appeared in The Normal School, the Atlantic, the Gettysburg Review, the Southern Review, and Five Points
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