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Joe Okonkwo and Jonathan Corcoran Read Their Lambda Nominated Books

Joe Okonkwo and Jonathan Corcoran read from their Lambda Literary nominated books and talked about craft, research, and place.

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My Appalachia: Coming Home in a Changing America

It’s April and I’m on the road jumping across the country promoting my debut book, a story collection about the residents of an economically-challenged small town in West Virginia. A large number o…

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I don’t think I’ve ever met a truly villainous person. I’ve met plenty of people who make terrible decisions, sometimes repeatedly. If literature exists to expand our understanding of humanity, we writers had better make room to air the stories of the bad guys. There’s a beautiful exchange that occurs when someone reads the lives of these characters. Perhaps there’s judgment, but there’s also the recognition of self in these characters, either the potential to commit heinous acts or the role we play personally or as a society in allowing these characters to hit their breaking points.

THE RUMPUS INTERVIEW with Jonathan Corcoran.

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REVIEW: The Rope Swing: Stories by Jonathan Corcoran

New #review from @expendablemudge on Jonathan Corcoran's #shortstories, The Rope Swing #amwriting

THE ROPE SWING: Stories

JONATHAN CORCORAN

Vandalia Press

$16.99 trade paper, available now

  Rating: 4* of 5

  The Publisher Says: A once-booming West Virginia rail town no longer has a working train. The residents left behind in this tiny hamlet look to the mountains that surround them on all sides: The outside world encroaches, and the buildings of the gilded past seem to crumble more every day.

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