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Fiction
Shame and Glory
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World’s End
Imperial Dreamer
More than Kerouac’s Muse
The Home Front
Talking with Shelley Read
Excerpt: ‘Go As a River’
My Old School
Frenemies, a Love Story
Mutual Aid
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The Deal Is Rotten
More Than Zero
The Myth of History
Alta Journal Fiction 2022
The Outsiders
Working Girls
Rosebud Awards: Best Fiction Book
Book Review: ‘South Central Noir’
Inside Out
Nothing Doings
Book Review: ‘The Passenger’ and ‘Stella Maris’
A Tender Man
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Circular Logic
Song and Dance
Less Is More
Family Matters
City Lights
Pynchon at the Beach
Life and Fate
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
The Home Front
The Apartment
‘Properties of Thirst,’ Part Five
Breaking Genre
‘Properties of Thirst,’ Part Four
Hotel California
‘Properties of Thirst,’ Part Three
‘Properties of Thirst,’ Part Two
The Fault in Their Stars
Past is Prologue
‘Properties of Thirst,’ Part One
Why It’s Time to Rethink ‘American Me’
Beyond Satire
The Stages of Grief
Life Stories
Long Strange Trip
The Structure of the Incidents
Uncanny Valley
Ways of Seeing
The History of Violence
Eye of the Beholder
Did Stegner Steal ‘Angle of Repose’?
The Things They Carried
Excerpt from Susan Straight's ‘Mecca’
Promised Land
Homegoing
Toil and Trouble
Friends for Life
Fire Season
He Said, He Said
The Mysteries
All in the Family
For Art’s Sake
The Road to Hell
Body and Soul