Young Man Comes of Age in America

you would have thought it impossible to take a splinterthree-quarters of an inch long in the creaseof your thumb padand not know itexcept for days afterwardthere was a dull achein another part of his handand then for weeks an itchhe was afraid to look at it afraid not tohe pulled off the roadin the middle of the nightbetween Columbus and Cincinnatihundreds of miles away the mapsslid from their shelf to the floorand under
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—James Baker Hall, from The Mother on the Other Side of the World

Mark Jarman is interviewed by the Savannah Morning News.

Lia Purpura's Rough Likeness is reviewed in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

The 2012 Kathryn A. Morton and Mary McCarthy contests are now open for submission! Click here to submit your manuscript electronically.

03-09-2012
Rough Likeness

2nd floor Rotunda 121 The Valley Library Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97331–4501
7:30 pm Reading from Rough Likeness


JoLynn O Hearn
jolynn.ohearn@oregonstate.edu
(541) 737-8226
http://calendar.oregonstate.edu/event/56349/

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