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Experimenting on Faith: Ryan McIlvain's "Elders"
Inlaid with darkness and violence, Elders is the story of disaffected young men’s machinations towards adulthood through the apparatus of the Church....
Lisa Locascio's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Sou'wester, American Short Fiction, Faultline, Wigleaf, and other journals, as well as in the anthology California Prose Directory: New Writing from the Golden State. An Endowed Fellow at the University of Southern California, she lives in Los Angeles, where she is at work on a novel and a monograph about contemporary American literature by women.