All posts by Jeff Parker

May 17th, 2010

Parker on Pitt

Part II in The Rumpus’s ill-conceived “battle of the book reviews.” …more

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December 7th, 2009

The Interrogative Mood

“Does integrity lie in failure?” asks the narrator of Padgett Powell’s new novel. He hopes that it does. …more

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April 17th, 2009

The Withdrawal Method

In his introduction to the Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, Ben Marcus writes that the best contemporary fiction synthesizes the heartfelt and the innovative. …more

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Jeff Parker is the author of the novel Ovenman, published in 2007 by Tin House Books. His collection of short stories, The Taste of Penny, has just been published by Dzanc Books.

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