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Brian McGreevy

Brian McGreevy is the author of the novel Hemlock Grove and co-creator of the forthcoming AMC series The Son.

Features & Reviews, Mini-Interviews

Brian McGreevy

Dec 15, 2016

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #62: Julian Tepper

Upon publication of his first novel, Balls, author Julian Tepper received pointed advice from one Philip Roth: quit. What the elder statesman, on the verge of his own retirement, was trying to say is that the writing life is “just…

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