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Ed Winstead

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Ed Winstead is pursuing an MFA in fiction at NYU and is currently at work on his first novel. He lives in Brooklyn.
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“Summer of Hate,” by Chris Kraus

  • Ed Winstead
  • January 14, 2013
It’s appropriate to read Chris Kraus’s Summer of Hate in the middle of the winter. The novel is perfect for January and February, being very fast moving and set in…
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The Colonel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi

  • Ed Winstead
  • July 19, 2012
Somewhere in an anonymous functionary’s desk drawer or a filing cabinet in a fluorescent-lit office or a cardboard box in a dusty basement sits the Persian-language manuscript of Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s…
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The Agriculture Hall of Fame, by Andrew Malan Milward

  • Ed Winstead
  • July 5, 2012
In the early morning hours of August 21st, 1863, 26-year-old Captain William Quantrill led several hundred Confederate guerillas into the town of Lawrence, Kansas, a hotbed of abolitionist support, in…
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Absolution by Patrick Flanery

  • Ed Winstead
  • May 7, 2012
Patrick Flanery is not South African, and neither is his debut novel, Absolution. This is not to say that Flanery does not know South Africa or its politics, history, landscape,…
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