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First Draft - Charles Baxter (Returns!)

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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The Night of He Hunter by Davis Grubb

The great schoolboy has a prominent overbite, with what used to be called buck teeth. A malady that inspires a great deal of teasing against him by his class means he is clumsy and is usually chosen last to be on any particular team. He lives out in the middle of nowhere on a sort of hobby farm with his stepfather and his mother. To quote the german writer crista wolf, there is no place on earth where he welcome. All this changes when the boy turns 15. Reads the novel, a highly lyrical nightmare about losing a father and gaining a stepfather. And nothing in his life has ever felt to be as true as this book. This story

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