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Jay Baron Nicorvo

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JAY BARON NICORVO’s forthcoming memoir, BEST COPY AVAILABLE, won the AWP Award judged by Geoff Dyer. His novel, THE STANDARD GRAND, landed at #8 on the Indie Next List, and his poetry collection, DEADBEAT, debuted on the Poetry Foundation bestseller list. Find Jay at www.nicorvo.net ...more

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Are you writing? When will we see another novel? The Standard Grand Remains one of my favorites during the (almost) ten years I've been reviewing.
Jay Baron Nicorvo Hi there, Donna!

Sorry it's taken me so long to reply, but I've been sitting on some good news I wasn't aloud to share...till now! But first: thank you…moreHi there, Donna!

Sorry it's taken me so long to reply, but I've been sitting on some good news I wasn't aloud to share...till now! But first: thank you for your generous words about TSG; I'm still proud of that one and I think not only has it aged well but I think it gets better with age — especially now, and sadly, when a new conflict rears up and sucks us back in to the stories of war.

To answer your question, I have been writing, but I've been working on nonfiction, and my debut true-crime memoir, BEST COPY AVAILABLE, just won the AWP Award judged by Geoff Dyer and will come out this time next year. Here's the announcement which was just posted this morn...

https://www.awpwriter.org/contests/aw...

...if you're curious and I've got a little more info on my website, where I'll post updates. And thank you kindly and dearly, Donna, for checking in and keeping me and my writing in your thoughts. It not only MEANS the world to me, it IS the world, my world at least.

Yours,

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# 5 — THE STANDARD GRAND's Blurb Countdown to Publication

Funny Once by Antonya Nelson From Antonya Nelson — "The Standard Grand defies categorization, as a novel; its pleasures are those of both the family saga and the government-covert-secrets sort. The reader engages politically, emotionally, and morally, with a page-turning obsession to see what, exactly, could (despite what should) possibly happen next. I welcome such reads, the surprise and satisfaction of encountering a Read more of this blog post »
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