Where the Dark Ended

There was a time when I was really, truly alive, while it seemed only dead people walked by on the sidewalk. It snowed that night, fluttering outside like big fallout, and I followed these two stoned girls into the diner. I say girls since they, we, Leon and I, were not much more than twenty, twenty-four, and had just decided to hitchhike that night down to Cozumel, Mexico, or to anywhere. This was in New York.
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—William Tester, from Head

Lia Purpura is interviewed in Orion.

The Lambda Literary Foundation has awarded Brian Leung its Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize.

T Fleischmann's Syzygy, Beauty is reviewed in the Star Tribune.

07-22-2012
Rough Likeness

The Creative Writing Programs MS-A1730 Hamline University 1536 Hewitt Avenue Saint Paul, MN 55104
2012/07/22 to 2012/07/28 Hamline University MFA Program Residency


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