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Glenn Lester

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Glenn Lester has taught at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, where he also earned his MFA and edited The Greensboro Review. His writing has appeared in StorySouth, The 2nd Hand, Juked, elimae, and elsewhere. He lives in Kansas City, MO.
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All in the Family

  • Glenn Lester
  • February 8, 2011
Ellen Meeropol’s debut novel tackles bizarre cult rituals, political violence, drug abuse, infanticide, and the Klan.
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Why They Cried

  • Glenn Lester
  • November 9, 2010
These stories by Jim Hanas are about something important: how much suffering arises in the gap between our public identities and whatever kernel of self is left inside.
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The Madonnas of Echo Park

  • Glenn Lester
  • June 8, 2010
“The border disappears, and in a finger snap we are running to cook your food, to clean your houses, to cut your grass…”
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The Resistance of Memory

  • Glenn Lester
  • April 10, 2010
Ander Monson attempts to move beyond “the singular authority of ‘I’ in nonfiction,” exploring new possibilities for the memoir form.
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Teenagers from Mars

  • Glenn Lester
  • March 10, 2010
Peter Bognanni’s first novel mixes punk rock and the wild creativity of Buckminster Fuller into a tender and believable chronicle of teen sorrow.
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