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I’m the author of FIEND (Random House), THIRTY-SEVEN (Dzanc), THE SEXUAL LIVES OF SUBURBANITES (Jackleg Press), and WE, ADULTS (forthcoming from Regal House Publishers). I have over thirty essays and stories published in magazines such as The Sun, The Bellevue Literary Review, The Greensboro Review, and The Southeast Review. I teach creative writing and composition at Colorado State University.

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CivilWarLand in Bad Decline—George Saunders

I kind of feel like Saunders can do no wrong. I’ve loved everything I’ve ever read of his, and although I’ve come across most of the stories in this collection before, I’ve never read it as such, from cover to cover (plus the nice essay on his life while writing these stories), and the experience was equally enjoyable. Although the stories mostly follow a set formula (first person narration, sligh

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	Fiend 3.57 avg rating — 4,026 ratings — published 2013 — 15 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
	Ofta är jag lycklig by Jens Christian Grøndahl, Peter Stenson (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.65 avg rating — 2,156 ratings — published 2016 — 33 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
	Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters by Tim Marquitz (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nickolas Sharps (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Peter Clines (Goodreads Author) 3.70 avg rating — 526 ratings — published 2014 — 14 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
	Thirty-Seven 3.88 avg rating — 331 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
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“I'm not sure if i believe in love at first sight or any of that shit. But i know that sitting there in a room with half-retarded motherfuckers drooling from their lithium and Trazodone, whatever I felt, it was close. Like I had this need to hold her, protect her bones from her parents or drugs or whatever wouldn't let her sleep and night, and i wanted her to think i was funny and sexy and smart and beautiful, just fucking beautiful. Sitting there while the tech introduced us to her, I wanted to be better than I was, not just to fuck this girl, but to be better for her. Guess that's a good enough definition of love.”
― Peter Stenson, Fiend

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“the moments when one of us was the lifeboat to the other’s ship sinking under the weight of self-hatred, and then us succumbing together to that sinking, convincing ourselves and each other that it was a good idea,”
― Peter Stenson, Fiend

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“I’m thinking that I love drugs more than anything. That they are the one and only constant in my life. Yeah, they demand a lot of attention and effort, but their love is legendary, their compassion endless. I hold each hit for hours, exhale for decades. The determination that comes with the onset of a high rushes back and I’m all about conquering the world and making money and finding happiness in the form of a loving woman who knows when it’s time to spread her legs and when it’s time to brush the backs of her nails across my cheek and then I’m thinking about this being the same thing as what God is doing to me now.”
― Peter Stenson, Fiend

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“These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful creatures, unique of their own kind, dredged up from the floors of some unexplored ocean.”
― Lawrence Durrell, Justine

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