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Samuel Snoek-Brown

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in Oklahoma City, The United States

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Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction

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Tom Franklin, Alice Munro, Cormac McCarthy, Annie Proulx, Stephen King ...more

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Samuel Snoek-Brown is the author of the story collection There Is No Other Way to Worship Them (Blue Cactus Press, 2018) as well as the fiction chapbooks Where There Is Ruin (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2016) and Box Cutters (sunnyoutside press, 2013), and the novel Hagridden (Columbus Press, 2014), for which he received a 2013 Oregon Literary Fellowship. His most recent book is the nonfiction chapbook There Are No False Alarms (Blue Cactus Press, 2020), an account of an active-shooter lockdown at a Pacific Northwest community college.

When he's not teaching college or writing fiction, he works for Jersey Devil Press. Occasionally he'll also show up online at snoekbrown.com. He lives with his librarian wife and their cat Brontë in the Pacific North ...more

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	Hagridden 4.24 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Box Cutters 4.71 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	There Is No Other Way to Worship Them 4.67 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Revenge of the Scammed by Nathaniel Tower (Goodreads Author) (Editor), David S. Atkinson (Goodreads Author), Susan Gibb 4.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where There Is Ruin 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Microfiction Monday Magazine Best of 2015 by Gayle Towell (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Samuel Snoek-Brown (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Marc D. Regan (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sententia #3 by Shya Scanlon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Samuel Snoek-Brown (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Michael Hickins (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crack the Spine: Spring 2013 by Kerri Farrell Foley (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Marie Abate (Goodreads Author), John Grochalski (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soft Corners: Poetry and Fiction by Anthony Shields (Editor), Eileen Neary (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), James Dye (Contributor) 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Big Bad Book Launch (and other recent events)

My new book, the story collection There Is No Other Way to Worship Them, has technically been out for a couple of weeks now, and we’ve had a series of “soft launch” events in that time, but this past week, we held our official launch party here in Tacoma! So, what follows is a series … More The Big Bad Book Launch (and other recent events) Read more of this blog post »

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Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania (Classic Reprint)

by Bayard Taylor

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The Buddha Walks Into The Office: A Guide to Livelihood for a New Generation

by Lodro Rinzler

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Cullen Montgomery Baker, Reconstruction Desperado

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“I offer you your life, friend, and recommend you take it.”
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“Bullets is worth more than food, the girl said, and we can’t eat gunstock.”
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“I guess I’m just sad is all.

You and me alike, but sad don’t get the dishes done.”
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“Dawn crept up out of the trees, defining a bole, a burl, a leaf at a time the world he'd spent the night trying to comprehend. But what would daylight offer except the illusion of understanding? At least in darkness you were spared the pretending.”
― Tom Franklin, Hell at the Breech

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“The seat belt irked his father more than Uncle Colin's not eating meat, because, though his father never said it, Larry knew he considered seat belts cowardly.”
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“What damn fool punches his own horse?”
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You and me alike, but sad don’t get the dishes done.”
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