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await your reply 2: nods

await your reply 2: nods

by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Aug 16, 2011 | accumulation, craft of writing, novels, stories, time | 3 comments

In the surprisingly interesting Reader’s Guide at the back of Dan Chaon’s Await Your Reply, Chaon writes: As a writer, I feel like I’m always in conversation with the books that I’ve read. Yiyun Li, the author of The Vagrants, feels the same...
await your reply 1: three threads

await your reply 1: three threads

by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Aug 15, 2011 | craft of writing, details, novels | 6 comments

From the first page of Dan Chaon’s novel: On the seat beside him, in between him and his father, Ryan’s severed hand is resting on a bed of ice in an eight-quart Styrofoam cooler. Enough said? Dan Chaon’s second novel and fourth book, Await Your...
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