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Simon A. Smith teaches English and debate to high school students. He holds a BA in creative writing and an MAT in secondary education. His stories have appeared in many journals and media outlets, including Hobart, PANK, Whiskey Island and Chicago Public Radio. He is the author of two novels, Son of Soothsayer (2018) and Wellton County Hunters: Book One of The Search Team Trilogy (2021). He lives in Chicago with his wife and son.

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The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)

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message 7: by Essi

Jul 12, 2010 09:41AM

Hello my dear simon
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message 6: by Marcus (last edited Feb 25, 2009 03:49AM)

Dec 13, 2008 04:58PM

Check out this week's New Yorker (Dec. 15). James Wood writes well of Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road, and the new Everyman's Library edition of The Easter Parade. Wonderful bio. info. and treatment of Yates' fiction.

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message 5: by Kathy

Apr 04, 2008 09:29AM

Thanks for adding "A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness" to your to-read list, Simon!

cheers,
Kathy

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message 4: by Jeremy

Jan 24, 2008 01:10AM

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

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message 3: by Jeremy

Jan 01, 2008 02:16PM

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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message 2: by Jeremy

Dec 24, 2007 12:09AM

Hi Bruiser!

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 :)

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message 1: by Jeremy (last edited Aug 25, 2016 01:55PM)

Nov 23, 2007 04:25PM

Hi Bruiser!

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

Here’s wishing you a weekend filled with wacky whims, wonderful weirdness, and well-disposed werecats.

-Jeremy :)

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