FICTION: NEW & NOTEWORTHY
By Max Winter, Nathan Deuel, Robert ReaDecember 11, 2013
Hill William by Scott McClanahan. Tyrant Books. 200 pages.
Raw by Mark Haskell Smith. Grove Press. 352 pages.
The Tilted World by Beth Ann Fennelly and Tom Franklin. William Morrow. 320 pages.
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Reality Strikes: Nathan Deuel on MARK HASKELL SMITH's Raw
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Down and Out in the Digital South: Robert Rea on SCOTT McCLANAHAN's Hill William
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Looking Past the History: Max Winter on BETH ANNE FENNELLY and TOM FRANKLIN's The Tilted World
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LARB Contributors
Max Winter has published reviews in The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out New York, Bookforum, and other publications. His second book of poems, Walking Among Them, was published by Subpress in 2013. He co-edits the press Solid Objects, is the Editor-in Chief of Press Play, and is a Poetry Editor of Fence.
Nathan Deuel has contributed to Harper’s, GQ, and The New York Times, among others. His debut collection of essays, Friday Was the Bomb, will be published by Dzanc in May 2014. He lives in Los Angeles.
Robert Rea lives in Oxford, Mississippi. He has written pieces on literature and music from the American South for the Southern Literary Journal, Southern Quarterly, and Mississippi Quarterly, among others. He currently teaches courses in American literature at the University of Mississippi.
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