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The books I gave on Christmas Eve

December 28, 2012 ~ The Longest Chapter ~ 3 Comments

Dinner at my house on December 24, 2012, included giving a book to each of my six guests. Here you'll find the titles of the books -- three novels, one short-story collection, one historical crime story, one allegory -- and how the selections were made.

Confessions from American suburbia

September 12, 2012September 12, 2012 ~ The Longest Chapter ~ Leave a comment

The University of Georgia Press announced this week the winners of the 2012 Flannery O'Connor Short Fiction Awards, but I've been hooked by a previous winner -- Andrew Porter's "The Theory of Light & Matter." Here's why, plus an "all hail the short story" burst of thought.

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