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Will Boast was born in England and grew up in Ireland and Wisconsin. His story collection, Power Ballads, won the 2011 Iowa Short Fiction Award. His fiction has appeared in Best New American Voices 2009, Narrative, Glimmer Train, The Southern Review, and The American Scholar, among other publications. From 2008-2010, he was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He lives in San Francisco and moonlights as a musician around the Bay Area." ...more

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	Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us by Colleen Kinder (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Leslie Jamison (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Lauren Groff (Goodreads Author) 3.73 avg rating — 946 ratings — published 2022 — 7 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
	Daphne 3.15 avg rating — 1,003 ratings — published 2018 — 11 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
	Epilogue: A Memoir 3.67 avg rating — 708 ratings — published 2014 — 11 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
	Power Ballads 3.97 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2011 — 5 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
	The BBC National Short Story Award 2024 by Paddy O’Connell, Vee Walker (Goodreads Author), Ross Raisin 3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings — 2 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
	Gulf Coast - A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts (Summer/Fall 2014) by Nick Flynn (Faculty Editor), Zachary Martin (Editor), Halimah Marcus 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014	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
	Glimmer Train Stories, Winter 2009, Issue #69 by E.A. Durden, Xhenet Aliu (Goodreads Author), Ron Savage (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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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“There were no ideas in music, only touch and instinct and sometimes grace—the mechanical tools—and that among those who were given the tools, only a few, a scant few, would be able to tell you something true.”
― Will Boast, Power Ballads

tags: music

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“You do the best with the data you have.”
― Will Boast, Daphne: A Novel

tags: effort

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“You all probably think I'm a real dragon."
She was weighing her answer carefully.
"Go ahead," I said. "I can take it."
"We give you the doubt benefit. Always doubt benefit. Not easy to be the boss."
It took a moment to untangle the idiom, and then I liked it too much to correct her.”
― Will Boast, Daphne: A Novel

tags: benefit-of-the-doubt

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