false <![CDATA[Big World]]> 6177474 2 Mary Miller's <i>Big World</i> is the second book and first work of fiction to come out of Short Flight/Long Drive Books, a publishing arm of the independent literary journal <i>Hobart</i>. The characters in Mary Miller's debut short story collection are at once autonomous and lonesome, possessing both a longing to connect with those around them and a cynicism regarding their ability to do so, whether they're holed up in a motel room in Pigeon Forge with an air gun shooting boyfriend as in "Fast Trains" or navigating the rooms of their house with their dad after their mother s death as in "Leak." Mary Miller's writing is unapologetically honest and efficient and the gut-wrenching directness of her prose is reminiscent of Mary Gaitskill and Courtney Eldridge, if Gaitskill's and Eldridge's stories were set in the south and reeked of spilt beer and cigarette smoke. 6357256 17 2 2009 Big World total:63|5:40|4:16|3:7|2:0|1:0| 63 285 112 24 3 2 false false Fri Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 08:14:35 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 15:15:14 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 5 false false Wed Mar 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 13:43:14 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 15:34:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Feb 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 08:11:31 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 08:08:01 -0800 2009 http://myfanwy.blogspot.com/2009/02/big-...]]> 5 2 false false Wed Mar 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Feb 10 08:16:10 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 25 09:33:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Aug 10 19:44:09 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 19:44:35 -0700 2009
You have to trust, sit back, and go where Mary Miller's stories take you. They go all over the place, following weird everyday whims, pushed and pulled by the forces of others and the confusing, often conflicting needs within the people they're about.

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"... I've been dipping into, and really enjoying, Niki Aguire's 29 Ways to Drown, which is well worth a look. But mostly I've been reading Big World by Mary Miller and, well, it's gone straigh...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 01 16:49:53 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 24 13:19:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Feb 28 17:49:04 -0800 2009 Mon Aug 10 19:42:15 -0700 2009
You have to trust, sit back, and go where Mary Miller's stories take you. They go all over the place, following weird everyday whims, pushed and pulled by the forces of others and the confusing, often conflicting needs within the people they're about.

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Seriously good. Reminded me of Alabama, the place, in all its connotations.

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