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Sanderia Faye: The TNB Self-Interview
Have you always written? I wrote little stories when I was very young and was encouraged by my high school English teacher to study creative writing in college. My family wasn’t about to have me spend...
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Excerpt of Big City, by Scot Sothern
Charlie Debunk drops two lead balls, plunk-plunk, into the flared mouth of his flintlock Blunderbuss. The balls tumble down the rusty barrel like fishline sinkers. He sets the antique weapon across his...
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Scot Sothern: The TNB Self-Interview
You received a lot of rejections before you finally started publishing and exhibiting your work. Do you have a favorite? Yeah, an agent in NYC wrote to say I should take my typewriter and put it on the...
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Excerpt of The Lost Daughter Collective, by Lindsey Drager
The lost daughter collective gathers on the top floor of an abandoned umbrella factory in the downtown of a mid-sized city. The group is composed of men who meet weekly to harness their mourning, a...
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Lindsey Drager: The TNB Self-Interview
Tell us what The Lost Daughter Collective is about, concerned with, proposing. The Lost Daughter Collective presents the story of a Wrist Scholar who tells his shadow-puppet obsessed daughter the...
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Excerpt of Show Her a Flower, A Bird, A Shadow, by Peg Alford Pursell
Petal, Feather, Particle Show her a flower, a bird, a shadow, and she will show you what is simultaneously forming and falling apart. What is both witness and sign along the way on this rough earth, a...
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Peg Alford Pursell: The TNB Self-Interview
Do you think it’s necessary to start off with a self-conscious question acknowledging that you are talking to yourself publicly? No. Good, now that we have that out of the way, let’s get straight to...
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Excerpt of To the Stars through Difficulties, by Romalyn Tilghman
TORNADO DEMOLISHES KANSAS TOWN NEW HOPE, Ks. (AP)—The entire community of Prairie Hill, Kansas (population 2754) was demolished Saturday evening by a tornado the National Weather Bureau rated EF-5, the...
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Romalyn Tilghman: The TNB Self-Interview
You really carried around notes for this novel for several decades? Yep. Those notes have lived in the garages of nine homes in five states during that time. I was 24 years old when I was hired to work...
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Excerpt of The Essex Serpent, by Sarah Perry
*Official May selection of the TNB Book Club. NEW YEAR’S EVE A young man walks down by the banks of the Blackwater under the full cold moon. He’s been drinking the old year down to the dregs, until...
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Excerpt of Spent Saints, by Brian Smith
Eye for Sin I climbed into the passenger seat and Tinkles lifted the pint of Southern Comfort from between his legs and offered me a shot. Took a good chug, handed it back and twisted an air...
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Brian Smith: The TNB Self-Interview
I imagine you are very used to seeing your words in print after nearly two decades as a journalist and columnist. In fact, I saw you contributed music essays to two books published earlier this year....
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Excerpt of Pax Americana, by Kurt Baumeister
Commercial Wisdom Ravelton Parlay was a wealthy man and a rational, even calculating one. But that didn’t mean he was beyond belief either in theory or in practice. The guy had faith in spades. Not...
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Kurt Baumeister: The TNB Self-Interview
Kurt Baumeister (KGB) vs. Kurt Baumeister’s Doppelganger (2.0) Kurt Baumeister’s debut novel, a satirical spy thriller entitled Pax Americana (Stalking Horse Press), was released into the wild on...
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Excerpt of The Gypsy Moth Summer, by Julia Fierro
He jogged through the woods, Champ lunging ahead and leaping on and off the trail leading to the Castle. “Quiet, dummy. You’ll give us away.” He hadn’t wanted to bring the shepherd, but he’d been...
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Excerpt of Florence in Ecstasy, by Jessie Chaffee
“Signorina.” Signora Rosa. Such a delicate name. She must be someone’s grandmother, stout and soft with a halo of white hair; this had tricked me into thinking that she would be soft with me. But she...
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Jessie Chaffee: The TNB Self-Interview
Florence in Ecstasy is your first novel—when you began it, did you know it was going to be a novel? I tricked myself into starting Florence in Ecstasy–or got tricked into it. While in the MFA program...
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Excerpt of Dark Lady: A Novel of Emilia Bassano Lanyer, by Charlene Ball
October 1576 “No! I won’t go!” Emilia shouted, kicking at the rushes on the floor. “Stop that and come here, Emilia!” Her mother held out her arms. Emilia stomped around the room, shouting, “No, no!”...
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Charlene Ball: The TNB Self-Interview
Did you write your novel about Emilia Bassano Lanyer because you disagreed with a professor? Well, I heard a talk about Emilia by A.L. Rowse, a British historian who gave a lecture at UGA when I was in...
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TNB Original Fiction: “Bonita” by Linnie Greene
He started his morning shift with six different Sara(h)s, an auspicious sign for a Wednesday. They booked the shuttle on the app and he watched, incredulously, as they piled in one at a time, a grand...
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