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  <name><![CDATA[Brendan Short]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Brendan Short's debut novel, &lt;i&gt;Dream City&lt;/i&gt;, was published by MacAdam/Cage in November 2008.  The novel has been called &quot;powerful&quot; (&lt;i&gt;Chicago&lt;/i&gt; Magazine), &quot;accomplished&quot; (&lt;i&gt;Austin American-Statesman&lt;/i&gt;), &quot;complex&quot; (&lt;i&gt;San Francisco Chronicle&lt;/i&gt;) and &quot;an impressively mature first effort...Highly recommended&quot; (&lt;i&gt;Library Journal&lt;/i&gt;).  According to Rod Lott at the &lt;i&gt;Oklahoma Gazette&lt;/i&gt;, &quot;It's rare that a novel can affect and haunt the reader to a marked degree, but this one does.&quot;

Brendan is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the James A. Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, where he held a three-year fellowship in fiction and poetry.  His stories and poems have appeared in several literary journals, including &lt;i&gt;The Literary Review&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;River Styx&lt;/i&gt;, and have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.  A former writer-in-residence at St. Albans School in Washington, D.C., he lives in the Chicago area with his wife and daughter.]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Graham Greene, William Trevor, Stuart Dybek, Tim O'Brien, Lorrie Moore, W. G. Sebald, many others]]></influences>  <gender>male</gender>        
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Dream City]]></title>
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  <average_rating>3.56</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>43</ratings_count>
  <published>2008</published>  
  
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