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Josh Russell


Born
Carbondale, Illinois, The United States
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Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Nonfiction


I'm the author of three novels: A True History of the Captivation, Transport to Strange Lands, & Deliverance of Hannah Guttentag (Dzanc Books, 2012); Yellow Jack (W.W. Norton, 1999), which earned me the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Shane Stevens Fellowship in the Novel; and My Bright Midnight (LSU Press, 2010), which earned me a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Prose and won the Independent Publisher Book Awards bronze medal for Literary Fiction.

My shorter prose has appeared in the Greying Ghost Press chapbook Pretend You'll Do It Again, and in several dozen magazines, textbooks, and anthologies, most recently Epoch, Copper Nickel, and Not Normal, Illinois. ...more

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Yellow Jack
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A True History of the Capti...
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My Bright Midnight
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Suburban Folktales
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King of the Animals
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Pretend You'll Do It Again
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BUSINESS STARTUP: The Ultim...
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Passive Investing : The „Mi...
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Commonplaces
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La teoria delle finestre rotte
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“tarnished keys, gilded keys, keys”
― Josh Russell, Yellow Jack
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