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Michelle Bailat-Jones

Michelle Bailat-Jones is an American writer and translator living in Switzerland. Her translations, fiction and criticism have appeared in various print and online journals including Hayden’s Ferry Review, Necessary Fiction, Ascent, Fogged Clarity, Cerise Press, The Quarterly Conversation and The Kenyon Review. She writes a literary blog called Pieces and is the reviews editor at Necessary Fiction.

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Michelle Bailat-Jones

Aug 8, 2013

The Longings of Wayward Girls by Karen Brown

The Longings of Wayward Girls embodies several known genres: it is alternately a literary thriller, a coming-of-age novel, and a complex domestic drama.
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Michelle Bailat-Jones

May 30, 2013

“All My Friends,” by Marie NDiaye

The five stories that make up All My Friends, a small collection by Frenchwoman (and Prix Goncourt winner) Marie NDiaye, are stories of breakdown. This breakdown is not necessarily the kind of single-character unraveling we expect from good psychological fiction,…
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Michelle Bailat-Jones

Dec 17, 2012

“With the Animals,” by Noelle Revaz

Paul, the narrator and subject of Noëlle Revaz’s With the Animals, is a rustic Swiss farmer with strong opinions but a weak intellect; he is a man of formidable emotion but has a rather small heart, metaphorically speaking. The book…

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Michelle Bailat-Jones

The Longings of Wayward Girls by Karen Brown

“All My Friends,” by Marie NDiaye

“With the Animals,” by Noelle Revaz