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Craig Buchner

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Born and raised in the Adirondack Mountains, Craig has lived in Idaho, Oregon, Tokyo, and today he lives in North Carolina. All of these places have greatly influenced his work.

He is the recipient of the AWP Intro Journals Award, and his fiction and poetry have appeared in Tin House, Baltimore Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Cincinnati Review, Hobart, and Puerto del Sol, among others.

Brutal Beasts is his first book.

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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

by Haruki Murakami

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2666

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