This volume of eleven stories, which won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, contains “Arcola Girls,” which first appeared in the New England Review, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards and also won a National Endowment for the Arts grant.
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In the 2004, I received the handoff of a project the great story writer and anthologist John McNally had begun. It was a book of essays by writers that centered on baseball. The idea of the book was not actually “sportswriting.” It was to collect a set of essays by writers that showed how baseball had played a part in their lives.
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This, my first volume of poetry, published by the wondrous Anhinga Press, appeared in the winter of 2005. Two of the poems within, “The Worrier’s Guild” and “Flying,” have been read by Garrison Keillor on Writer’s Almanac.
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An Angel Visits — Third Street, Louisville, Nov., 2010
This happened I believe in the Fall of 2010 in Louisville at the residency. There was at the time a restaurant called, I believe, the Third Street Cafe, and my guess is it was close to a mile south of the Spalding campus. At least once a residency I would abscond to this place because [...]
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Over the last six months, I’ve been writing a long short story called “Healing,” a project that came from my trip a year ago to the Indonesian island of Bali. The story, as usual, went a different direction than I expected. I resurrected Jerome Slater, an oil painter, who first appeared in an unpublished novel, [...]
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