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From:New England Review (Vol. 42, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWhen my debut book, a story collection, was nearing its publication date, my publicist--a woman I'd met once--sent me a list of questions. My answers to these questions would be included in the press kit submitted to...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 42, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThere is another me who wrote plays I have neither seen nor read. Once I received a rejection meant for him; the works in question, if I recall, were Frantic! and City Banker. Of course nobody likes to be confused with...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 42, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIt is 1966 and I am sitting on a stool at the Burger King on Merritt Island, Florida, eating French fries. My view is Highway 520 and the cars speeding up to the rare stoplight just beyond where I sit. My father, my...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 42, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSummer is here with its roaring lawnmowers and humming cicadas; its fishing and swimming and car windows open wide; its ice cream and cantaloupe and air conditioners. All of that is here in these pages too, if you look,...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 42, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedKINGSTON PIKE, TENNESSEE By June, I'd started putting the pieces in motion. I went to Tennessee to renew my license and borrow my mother's Camry. I fished my old butterfly net--a retractable aluminum pole with a...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 42, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTRANSLATOR'S NOTE: This excerpt comes from Book II, chapter 6, of my forthcoming translation of Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov (1881). The meeting is the first gathering of the entire...