Jayne Moore Waldrop’s “Drowned Town” makes no qualms about how much value people put into a sense of place.
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Michel Sabbagh is a Creative Writing MFA student in Fiction at Queens University of Charlotte. A member of the Quebec Writers’ Federation and Association of Writers & Writing Programs, he serves as an editorial assistant for Qu Literary Magazine. He is based in Montreal and was born and raised in the United Arab Emirates. Sabbagh formerly worked as a quality assurance tester in the video game industry and is currently working as a writer on the video game project Cathnoquey: The Fractured Isles. He also published game design articles featured on websites like Gamasutra, Kotaku, and Kill Screen. Sabbagh's personal writing may be read on his blog Shoal of Words: https://michelsabbagh.wordpress.com/.
“Palm Beach” Is More Than an Exploration of Wealth Inequality
A review of Mary Adkins’ novel, “Palm Beach.”
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“The Blue Line Down” Is a Tale of New Beginnings
Maris Lawyer’s debut novel, “The Blue Line Down,” is set in 1920s Appalachia, featuring coal miners, union busters, and bootleggers.
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Wrestling with Reality in “The Big Door Prize”
M. O. Walsh’s recent novel, “The Big Door Prize,” is set in Deerfield, Louisiana, featuring a new machine that promises to reveal life’s purpose for the townspeople.
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Loren C. Steffy’s Debut Novel Highlights the Tug-of-War Between Tradition and Progress
With his debut novel “The Big Empty,” Steffy carves out a niche in the fiction genre and fills it with his insight — enlightening and grim — on the American way of making a living, including the kind involving “coming home caked in sweat and dirt and animal [dung] every night.”
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“How Lucky”: A Novel About Finding Purpose in the World
A review of Will Leitch’s recent coming-of-age mystery novel, “How Lucky,” set in Athens, Georgia.
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KT Sparks on Cowboy Poetry and “Four Dead Horses”
An interview with KT Sparks on her recent novel “Four Dead Horses.”
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Stubborn Rigidity and Self-Reformation in “A Wall of Bright Dead Feathers”
Babette Fraser Hale’s short story collection, “A Wall of Bright Dead Feathers,” is set in the countryside of central Texas.
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A Tale of Two Realities in “Working It Off in Labor County”
Larry D. Thacker’s short story collection “Working It Off in Labor County” is tender in its depiction of rural American ennui and mordant in its portrayal of colorful go-getters in a patch of coal country.
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A Golden Ticket to Prosperity in “The Fortunate Ones”
Ed Tarkington’s new novel “The Fortunate Ones” points out the chinks in the gilded armor adorning – and weighing down – followers of the cult of wealth.
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