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Fat Man and Little Boy - Black Balloon Publishing

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We champion the weird, the unwieldy, and the unclassifiable. Subscribe to our mailing list. Fat Man and Little Boy. S best independent books of 2014, and winner of the 2013 Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize. Meginnis’s talent is his ability to make the reader feel empathy for souls who killed so many. . . Many pages in this novel feel like engravings . . . Meginnis has written one of the best, most natural novels about the atomic bombs. Nick Ripatrazone,. Beguiling, strange, and strangely lovely,. It made me ...

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Reticent Corpses: Yoko Ogawa's "Revenge" — The Airship

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Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales. Surveying literature, art and culture from an altitude of 5,000 feet while traveling at 53 miles per hour. Book Sword: Edith Wharton, George Saunders, and Dave Eggers. From Walk of Shame to Break Up: Love Poems for Every Occasion. Reticent Corpses: Yoko Ogawa's "Revenge". Once you've turned the last page of Yoko Ogawa's newly translated story collection,. When you flip to the book's front matter, you notice that the original title. Kamoku na shigai, Midara na tomurai. Start at...

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What's It Like to Write a Novel in Prison? — The Airship

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Daniel Genis wrote an alternate history novel called. While incarcerated for 10 years for his own drug-related crimes. The polite robber is now a sober author. Surveying literature, art and culture from an altitude of 5,000 feet while traveling at 53 miles per hour. Forget the After-Party: 6 Books to Read While Hiding in a Corner at Prom. What's It Like to Write a Novel in Prison? Daniel Genis is a free man after having spent the better part of a decade behind bars for. What was your writing process like?

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Nobody Gets Famous in Chicago — The Airship

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60;longform.>. Nobody Gets Famous in Chicago. How the Back Room Shakespeare Project Gave Up on Theatre—and Revived It. Young people don't go to the theater. Broadway League data. Reveals that in 2011 the average age of a non-musical theater-goer was 53. More convincing than hard numbers, if you are younger than 30, ask your friends if they want to see a play. They will act like wild horses that think they are being tricked into a barn. "How long is it? They whinny skittishly. "How much will it cost?

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I Did It! I Paid for My BFA in Creative Writing by Dumpster Diving! — The Airship

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One man’s trash was this woman’s tuition. Surveying literature, art and culture from an altitude of 5,000 feet while traveling at 53 miles per hour. The Grand, Obscure and Strange Items That Authors Collect. The Gaying of Southwest Florida. I Paid for My BFA in Creative Writing by Dumpster Diving! The author dumpster diving. This piece is the first installment in our new series,. A collection of first-person essays celebrating outlandish means and wild achievements. Submit your own story to. Life was goo...

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Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize – Black Balloon Publishing

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We champion the weird, the unwieldy, and the unclassifiable. Subscribe to our mailing list. ANNOUNCING THE WINNER OF THE 2014 HORATIO NELSON FICTION PRIZE. We are thrilled to announce that Tegan Nia Swanson. Has won the 2014 prize for her novel-in-artifacts, Things We Found When the Water Went Down. For more information about Ms. Swanson and her winning manuscript, read the Poets and Writers. PREVIOUS HORATIO NELSON FICTION PRIZE WINNERS. Fat Man and Little Boy.

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About Black Balloon Publishing

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We champion the weird, the unwieldy, and the unclassifiable. Subscribe to our mailing list. Our books have been featured in The New Yorker. The New York Times. O, The Oprah Magazine. And on All Things Considered. One of 25 presses “proving that this is the golden age of indie publishing.”. Gives us a new language by which we hear stories that might otherwise go unheard. The Los Angeles Times. This jiving and I should say X-rated story stays with us.". Alan Cheuse, NPR's. A multi-sensory feast.". Here at ...