LYNNE BARRETT'S
MAGPIES
"I think my worldview (if I have to say something sweeping about this) is a kind of merry sadness.
Or rueful joy."
~Lynne Barrett
Lynne Barrett is the award-winning author of the story collections The Secret Names of Women, The Land of Go, and, most recently, Magpies, which has just been published by Carnegie Mellon University Press Sept. 1, 2011.
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Poetry by Geoffrey Philp, Jared Bajkowski, Sheila Black, Constance E. Boyle, Anhvu Buchanan, Alan Elyshevitz, Therese Halscheid, Denise M. Rogers, and Karen Neuberg. Nonfiction by Lori Jakiela, Tabitha Blankenbiller, and Lisbeth Davidow. Fiction by Preston Allen, James Dunlap, Barry Herzog, Tim Hunt, Olive Gale Mullet, Peter D. Goodwin, and Nick Sweet. Art by Steve Perrault. Interviews with Lynne Barrett and Louis K. Lowy.
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SPECIAL INTERVIEWS
Lynne Barrett & Louis Lowy
Louis K. Lowy:
Die Laughing
"My
funniest moments came when I let my characters banter between
themselves. I could feel when they were on a roll and I let them go with
it."
~Louis Lowy
~Louis Lowy
A recipient of the Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, Louis K. Lowy is the author of Die Laughing, a 1950's sci-fi adventure set in the 1950s of flying saucers, communist paranoia and live television.
Lynne Barrett:
Magpies
"I think my worldview (if I have to say something sweeping about this) is a kind of merry sadness.
Or rueful joy."
~Lynne Barrett
Lynne Barrett is the award-winning author of the story collections The Secret Names of Women, The Land of Go, and, most recently, Magpies, which has just been published by Carnegie Mellon University Press Sept. 1, 2011.
FEATURED AUTHORS
SEPTEMBER 2011
Lori Jakiela, Geoffrey Philp & Preston Allen
Nonfiction
"I wonder if the story, the one my parents told me and the one I helped invent, has been wrong from the start."
~Lori Jakiela, All of Them Would Hurt Someone I Think
Poetry
"[F]or he knows,
he knows, somewhere
between the Tigris and Euphrates,
a wave of steel races toward Babylon."
~Geoffrey Philp, A Poem for the Innocents
Fiction
"But this is not going to be a good night because a light is on, and I never leave the lights on."
~Preston Allen, The Keys to My Apartment
FEATURED ARTIST
Steve Perrault, a Virginia fine artist and former psychotherapist,
creates acrylic paintings that transform the architecture of spaces
into emotional and spiritual messages.
EDITOR'S PICK
Lynne Barrett's Magpies
On Saturday, October 1st, 2011, from 7 pm to 9:30 pm, join us at Books & Books, in Coral Gables, FL, for the reading, reception, and celebration of the publication of Magpies, Lynne Barrett's third book of short stories.
Read the interview!
"Lynne Barrett belongs in the top tier of short-story writers in America today. Her unforgettable characters, poker-face wit, and sly plots make for an intensely enjoyable experience."
—Kelly Cherry, author of The Woman Who
"It is entirely impossible to predict what you’re going to get when you start a Lynne Barrett story: a taut tale of adultery and murder, a wry evocation of romance among the dot.com bubble, a gossip columnist who spits toads. What you do know is that you’ll keep reading—for the vibrant prose, the keen insights, and the remarkable depth of feeling. Magpies is a stone cold triumph".
—Steve Almond, author of Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life
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