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I could play in the NFL if I wanted to: Daytona Teddy Riggs (opens the original)
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My review of Daytona Teddy Riggs is below. But first, allow your newsletterist to hawk his wares.My novel remains on submission. While my reps and I continue to shop it around, I’m very much open to hearing from anyone who publishes books and would like to take a look. It’s not easy to get editors who know nothing about me or my work excited about my book, so I figure it’s worth asking explicitly in a forum where there are, in theory, readers who may already appreciate my writing. Hunting Grackl
You can’t swim home again (opens the original)
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I’ve spent this summer struggling to explain why I hate summer so much. I’ve written about this before, through the lens of Inspector Maigret, but my hatred of summer seems to be worse this year than ever before. Climate change would be a convenient scapegoat. It’s definitely hotter and wildfire-smokier in Wyoming than when I was a kid. But even perfectly normal heat—82 Fahrenheit, let’s say, with the lack of humidity that is one of the high desert’s graces—seems to bother me more than before. A
When a New York novel goes down easy (opens the original)
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My latest short story, Cavalryman’s Ghost, is up at the estimable High Horse. Katie Kitamura’s Audition is the kind of novel you immediately feel as if you’ve read before. The setting is of course New York City. Not even Brooklyn, but the milieu of the well-heeled, middle-aged creative elite of the West Village. The protagonist, an unnamed 49-year-old actress, grabs pastries each morning from the bakery across
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