The Least You Need to Know


". . . me, I'm there trying to do my job. It's a job someone has to do, right? And this woman is sitting there watching me scrape up her daughter's blood. Well, let me tell you, it gives me the willies, and after a while, I say to her — you know, just to make conversation, just to try to make this bearable — I say to her: 'You might want to consider
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—Lee Martin, from The Least You Need to Know

Ryan Van Meter's If You Knew Then What I Know Now is reviewed in Rain Taxi.

Caitlin Horrocks' This Is Not Your City is reviewed in The Kenyon Review and The Short Review.

Lydia Davis' The Cows is reviewed in Make Magazine.

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03-01-2012
Fort Red Border

Rope Walk Series University Center at University of Southern Indiana, 8600 University Boulevard Evansville, IN 47712 5:00pm

Nicole Louise Reed
nreid@usi.edu
http://www.usi.edu/ropewalk/readingseries.asp

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