War Narratives #6: The Rumpus Interview with Phil Klay
When you’re writing fiction, you can follow your own ignorance. You can write something and realize how flawed you are.
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Posts Tagged: Redeployment
The Rumpus Interview with Elliot Ackerman
Elliot Ackerman discusses his debut novel Green on Blue, fighting with the Marine Corps in the Second Battle of Fallujah, and being labeled as a journalist .
...more2014: The Year of the Debut
Though he admits that “it can be a little silly to sum up an entire year of books,” Electric Literature’s Lincoln Michel suggests that “2014 might be the year of the debut.”
...moreChance Encounters
A newspaper columnist, a National Book Award winner, and some strangers get on a train… At the Times, Alexandra Alter writes about bumping into Phil Klay on the F train.
...moreThis Week in Short Fiction
On Wednesday evening, Phil Klay’s Redeployment won the National Book Award for fiction, making it the first short story collection to win the award since Andrea Barrett’s Ship Fever in 1996. That’s 18 years. But what’s maybe more startling is that the collection, which takes multiple perspectives of people involved in and returning from the […]
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Redeployment by Phil Klay and The Corpse Washer by Sinan Antoon
Natalie Storey reviews REDEPLOYMENT by Phil Klay and THE CORPSE WASHER by Sinan Antoon today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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