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"Over the course of its 383 pages, Teenager understands happiness as motion away from hopelessness, then as simple motion, and then, finally, as a kind of stasis daring hopelessness to catch up." @evansquilliams reviews Teenager, a novel by @Bud_Smith https://t.co/XCfQnfZ4OR

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"He has an especially well-developed ability to make his reader squirm while maintaining a calm in the prose itself." @evansquilliams reviews High School Romance, the new story collection by @MarstonGHefner https://t.co/xfwadFp59M

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"There is an otherworldly quality to many of these tales, a blurring of edges that gives the impression that the stories’ events take place somewhere between waking and sleeping." @kristincleaves reviews 'Francis Top's Grand Design' by Craig Rdogers https://t.co/QVn43Hj3IR

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"An insecure culture will do whatever they can to keep the status quo. Even horrific acts are conceivable when their existing state of affairs are in jeopardy." JP Vallières talks with @rlgransden about his novel, The Ketchup Factory, out now https://t.co/kCeizFwckZ

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"Susan who choked to death loved the husband, loved his neighborliness. She loved him from her driveway and windows, front and back yards, day and night dreams." @JenniferMurvin gives away the ending https://t.co/4eHK8vR2qk

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"Remember, writing is about self-expression and emotional communication, so just focus on yourself and don’t worry about what anyone else is doing." @rlgransden chats up @GergleySteve about his new story collection A Quick Primer on Wallowing in Despair https://t.co/aTRn1DN5YA

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“In order to write, I needed the writing process to disappear. But without the writing process, obviously I wouldn’t be a writer.” @parker_w_y gets the timing right! His debut collection “Cheap Therapist Says You’re Insane” is out today @FutureTenseBook! https://t.co/OyRsEl2jRs

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we humbly recommend: Forever Valley by Marie Redonnet. Translated from French by Jordan Stump. 1986. 113 pages. https://t.co/6jgmBhT9Mv

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“If we found him we dragged him back up the hill into the house. Our faces would burn if we did not do this. Sometimes, even if we dragged him back to where he belonged, we would still get punished.” Stunning reading from The Red Barn by Nat Baldwin! 🐇🔥 https://t.co/rr4nqrOJC2

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"Humans are the ones who insist that artificial boundaries are just as immutable as those laws of physics, and tailor their belief systems accordingly." Hit the floor with @rlgransden interviewing @KatheKoja on her new novel, Dark Factory https://t.co/otvcXDpbpZ

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