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Peter Orner

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Peter Orner is the author of two novels, two story collections (Little, Brown), and the editor of two oral histories (Voice of Witness/ McSweeney's/ Verso). His latest book is Am I Alone Here?, an essay collection published in November, 2016 by Catapult with illustrations by Eric Orner. A new book of oral history set in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and co-edited with Dr. Evan Lyon, will be published by Voice of Witness/ Verso, in January, 2017. Peter Orner currently teaches at the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers as well as at San Francisco State University where he is currently chair of the Creative Writing Department.
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The Lonely Voice #27: William Trevor, What Haunts Us Is Us

  • Peter Orner
  • November 21, 2016
And this is the majesty of William Trevor. He creates—and at the same time affirms—the dark we’ve all got inside us. He gives our nightmares flesh.
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The Lonely Voice #32: The Last Lonely Voice

  • Peter Orner
  • November 1, 2016
That’s what the Lonely Voice has always been to me. It was a privilege to be allowed to have a private conversation with myself in public.
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The Lonely Voice #31: So Long, James Salter

  • Peter Orner
  • July 17, 2015
But our bodies and our brains don’t seem designed, ultimately, to cooperate and Salter joins the ranks of the dead where he doesn’t belong.
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The Lonely Voice #30: Brief Early Morning Thoughts on Ahab

  • Peter Orner
  • July 3, 2015
I find that lately I do more reading than writing, and more thinking than either.
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Nous devons être plus que Charlie (We Need to Be More than Charlie)

  • Peter Orner
  • January 9, 2015
The only true way to defend free speech is to exercise it—not just talk about it.
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Jane Byrne (1934–2014)

  • Peter Orner
  • November 14, 2014
Jane Byrne, Fighting Jane. Mike Royko called her Mayor Bossy. She ran against the machine and squashed it, the whole goddamned machine.
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The Lonely Voice #29: Feels like the World, On a Story by Richard Bausch

  • Peter Orner
  • November 6, 2014
Richard Bausch can take your head off with a plain sentence. He’s direct, no frills, no pirouettes. A writer who says what he means and not a word more.
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The Rumpus Interview with Corinne Goria

  • Peter Orner
  • June 3, 2014
Author and veteran Voice of Witness editor Peter Orner sits down with Invisible Hands: Voices From the Global Economy editor Corinne Goria to talk about putting the book together, economic interdependency, and the complex human stories behind everyday items.
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The Lonely Voice #28: All Lives Are Interesting: My Father and Mavis Gallant

  • Peter Orner
  • February 19, 2014
Alive, dead, what’s it matter to me, truly? I had her books then, I have her books now. Let others sing her praises today from the rooftops. For me, Gallant is all days.
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The Rumpus Interview with Chris Abani

  • Peter Orner
  • February 10, 2014
Chris Abani sits down to talk about the dangers and seduction of fiction, literature as transformation, growing up in Nigeria, and how "our every justification is a story."
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The Lonely Voice #26: Brief Thoughts on Alvaro Mutis’s “The Tramp Steamer’s Last Port Of Call”

  • Peter Orner
  • October 11, 2013
The Lonely Voice was sorry to hear of the passing of the great Alvaro Mutis who died last month in Mexico City.
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The Lonely Voice #25: Winter in September, On Breece D’J Pancake

  • Peter Orner
  • October 2, 2013
Stories fail if you only read them once. You’ve got to meet a story again and again, in different moods, at different eras of your life.
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