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Meacham said he named book american lion because he felt lions make both the best allies and the worst enemies, which he felt captured the contradictions at jacksons core. Travels in central america lonely planetstephen benz has published essays in creative nonfiction, river teeth, triquarterly, and other journals. Using her story collection lets do, meacham will discuss how to turn ordinary experiences into gripping fiction. Lets do is a deeply unsettling yet always engrossing first collection of. If he were on your side, he would do all he could to protect you.
Before she wakes, everyone cries out to heran ugly, baffled soundand valerie can only listen. Meacham believes in the words of thomas jefferson, who said, men do not simply participate at election times, but every day. Her waking hours are just the opposite, silent as empty. Lets do was selected for the spring 2005 barnes and noble discover great new writers program. Author of lets do stories, unt press and morbid curiosities flash fiction, ndr.
Information for potential authors university of north. The characters in lets do are the kind of people we dont want to bedrunks, stalkers, lonely exwives and husbands, grieving parents, all decent people who do indecent thingsand rebecca meacham writes about them brilliantly, with empathy, intelligence and a scathing sense of humor. The book, which won the katherine anne porter prize in fiction when it came out in 2004, realistically explores high drama writ small. Lets do by rebecca meacham the optimist by joshua mehigan instrumentality by ravi shankar the sendaway girl by barbara sutton. The characters in lets do are the kind of people we dont want to be drunks, stalkers, lonely exwives and husbands, grieving parents, all decent people who do indecent things and rebecca meacham writes about them brilliantly, with empathy, intelligence and a scathing sense of humor. Rebecca is the director of the creative writing program and professor of english and humanities at university of wisconsingreen bay.
Director of the uwgb teaching press and cochair of english, rebecca is also an organizer of green bays annual untitledtown book and author festival, where she once shared creme brulee with margaret atwood and a puppet. My very end of the universe offers five outstanding examples of the novellainflash form itself, along with indispensable essays from the authors on. Rebecca meachams debut story collection, lets do, won the katherine anne porter prize in fiction from unt. Rebecca meacham has one of the freshest voices ive encountered in a long time. Somehow or another on the book trail, meacham told gerds, i heard, did you hear there was this big fire in 1871. Tending the flame of democracy is a sacred charge for every. Information for potential authors university of north texas.
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