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Amelia Franz was born and raised in Mississippi but now lives in the Baltimore area with her husband and children. She is the author of The Longest Man-Made Beach in the World: Biloxi Stories (Watertower Press). Her short stories have been published widely in literary magazines.

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Sinners Welcome by Mary Karr
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I flat-out love Mary Karr's poetry. It's embodied, it's physical, no vague musing about botanical subjects here. It's also Christian-themed, as the title and front cover suggest. Karr converted to Catholicism some years ago, and her poetry is unabash ...more
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Meander, Spiral, Explode by Jane Alison
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As a craft book, this is well worth a read. It's exactly what you'd think from the title: a discussion (and examples) of different narrative structures, including spirals, waves, and more. I found the spiral particularly interesting and promising. It ...more
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How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa
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This is one of my favorite story collections in recent years, and I read lots of short story collections. Thammavongsa's voice is distinctive--fierce and unflinching. These are all stories of refugees and immigrants, no doubt drawn from her own backg ...more
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Music of the Swamp by Lewis Nordan
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Absolutely no one, NO ONE, writes like the great Lewis Nordan wrote. He (and especially in Music of the Swamp) could just about ruin you for any other southern writer. I only wish I'd been able to meet him. He was from the same area of Mississippi--t ...more
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Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey
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I don't know why it took me so long to get around to reading Memorial Drive. But wow, this is a devastatingly beautiful and heartbreaking memoir about her mother's murder at the hands of Natasha's troubled stepfather. And though harrowing, the book i ...more
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Biloxi by Mary  Miller
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Tiny Love by Larry Brown
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