§§§ Hector de Saint-Aureole, the elusive—or shall we say simply unremembered?—author of When to Go into the Water, was born in 1900, the sole child of peasant farmers in the east of France. His mother and father were quiet persons who, like sunflowers, flourished in their daylong labors and drooped when indoors. Hector remembered how his mother recurrently hummed a tune that she could make sound happy or sad but to which she never sang the words. His father would
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—Lawrence Sutin, from When to Go into the Water

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.

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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

Something in My Eye
by Michael Jeffrey Lee

Michael Jeffrey Lee's stories are bizarre and smart and stilted, like dystopic fables told by a redneck Samuel Beckett. Outcasts hunker under brid ... [read more]

Rough Likeness
by Lia Purpura

Lia Purpura's essays are full of joy in the act of intense observation; they're also deliciously subversive and alert to the ways language gets l ... [read more]

Small Fires
by Julie Marie Wade

This is a daughter’s story. In Small Fires, Julie Marie Wade recreates the landscape of her childhood with a lacemaker’s care, then t ... [read more]

Mending
by Sallie Bingham

In Mending, Sallie Bingham follows the often brutal course of yearning and its disappointments with an emotional acuity both unflinching a ... [read more]

Hoodwinked
by David Hernandez

When hornets’ nests become dusky skulls half-buried in suburban grass, we try not to believe our eyes. Such inherent untrustworthiness—of recei ... [read more]

This Is Not Your City
by Caitlin Horrocks

Thirteen women confront dramas both every-day and outlandish in Caitlin Horrocks’ This Is Not Your City. In stories as darkly comic as t ... [read more]

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