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Preston L. Allen is the author of the new novel, I DISAPPEARED THEM (Akashic 2024)

Preston L. Allen, a graduate of the University of Florida (BA '87) and Florida International University (MFA '94), is a recipient of a State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship and a recipient of the Sonja H. Stone Prize in Fiction. His work has been published in the Seattle Review and the Crab Orchard Review and has been anthologized in Las Vegas Noir, Miami Noir, Brown Sugar, Making the Hook-Up, and Here We Are: a Collection of South Florida Writers. His short story collection CHURCHBOYS AND OTHER SINNERS (Carolina Wren Press 2003) is the winner of the Sonja H. Stone Prize in Fiction, and his novels ALL OR NOTHING, JESUS BOY, and EVERY BOY SHOULD HAVE A
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Average rating: 3.56 · 826 ratings · 186 reviews · 15 distinct worksSimilar authors
Every Boy Should Have a Man

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Jesus Boy

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I Disappeared Them

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All or Nothing

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Hoochie Mama

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Churchboys and Other Sinners

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Bradley I hope you are having a good day! =)

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Dreamsbane of Tamalor by Bradley James Simpson


Jeremy I want to apologize for the all the recommendations from me yesterday. I wanted to share the Stoker Award news, and I only pressed the send button once--I'm not sure what happened to create so many messages. Some weird glitch.

Argh...this is terrible...

Again, I'm very sorry.

-Jeremy


Jeremy Here’s wishing you a nifty New Year filled with noiseless noses, neato nicknames, noble Nebraskans, gnarly narcoleptic nebulas, and novel novels about nut-eating narwhals and novercaphobic gnats.

-Jeremy :)

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Jeremy Thanks for sharing! I've never read the World According to Garp--I'm definitely going to check it out.

Here’s wishing you a yippee-filled Yuletime overflowing with yard-long yams, yapping yoyo-yanking yetis, yak-milk yeast-cakes, and yellow yarn-yielding year-end yard-gnomes.

-Jeremy :)


message 2: by Preston (last edited Aug 25, 2016 01:59PM)

Preston It may not be the greatest novel ever written, but I would have to say that BOYS AND GIRLS TOGETHER ranks as my favorite novel (if I can say such a thing). I read it at an important and formative time in my life, so maybe that has something to do with it. I also love Slaughterhouse Five, the World According to Garp, and Stephen King's Dead Zone. There are others . . . maybe this is a question I should think about.


message 1: by Jeremy (last edited Aug 25, 2016 01:58PM)

Jeremy Thanks for the friendship, Prestonallen!

If you don't mind sharing--I was wondering, what's your favorite novel of all time? Or novels?

Here’s wishing you a fantastic day filled with fabulous friendships, fanciful festivities, and frolicking phantom footstools.

-Jeremy :)

PS--If you end up checking out any of my work, I'd love to hear what you think.


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