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Michael Koryta
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July 2012
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Those Who Wish Me Dead
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2014
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So Cold the River
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2010
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55 editions
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How It Happened
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2018
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If She Wakes
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2019
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The Prophet
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2012
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An Honest Man
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2023
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Last Words (Mark Novak, #1)
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2015
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The Cypress House
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2011
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The Ridge
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2011
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Tonight I Said Goodbye (Lincoln Perry, #1)
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2004
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Michael’s Tribute to Daniel Woodrell
I feel as if lately I���m honing a craft never desired: the tribute piece.
In July, I wrote a farewell to my best friend ��� that may seem an odd term to apply to an 88-year-old man, but it���s the right one. His name was Bob Hammel, and he was a sportswriter by trade and a mentor by whatever bad luck delivered me to his door. He loved words. I���m thinking of that now, because I just heard from th
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“Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.”
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“...what still blew them all away was time itself, the days and months and the years, oh yes, the years. They went faster than anything man had the capacity to invent, so fast that for a while they fooled you into thinking they were slow, and was there any crueler trick than that?”
― So Cold the River
― So Cold the River
“You have bound us, Kimble imagined saying, to an evil world. Where’s the love in that? And in that scenario, God always answered, Temporarily bound you, yes. Now, during your time in that evil world, did you do anything to help?”
― The Ridge
― The Ridge
“You became what you wanted to become. That's what Ezra believe. You could become it if you tried hard enough, could take what you really were and change it, force-feed yourself a new life until it became your old life, too, blurred together until a better self emerged.”
― Envy the Night
― Envy the Night
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“Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.”
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Ask Megan Abbott & Michael Koryta - Thursday, September 12th!
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Join us on Thursday, September 12th for a special discussion with authors Megan Abbott & Michael Koryta. Megan and Michael will be discussing their ne ...more
