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Rae Cline

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Rae Cline's debut novel, Precious Ugly, is a work of Appalachian literary fiction. It was a finalist for the Curt Johnson Prose Award and CRAFT's First Chapters Contest. Her story collection, The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals, was nominated for the PEN/Hemingway Award and Pushcart Prize. Her short fiction received honors from the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition and won second place in the Bartleby Snopes Short Story Contest. Her creative nonfiction was a finalist for the Terry Tempest Williams Creative Nonfiction Prize. Her fiction and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, McSweeney's, North American Review, and StoryQuarterly. She is the founding editor of Eckleburg and lives in New York City. ...more

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	Pear Noir! (#4) by Daniel Casebeer (Editor), David Erlewine, Adam Gallari 4.71 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	Stripped by Nicole Monaghan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Amber Sparks (Goodreads Author), Jeanne Holtzman 4.17 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2011	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
	Precious Ugly 4.23 avg rating — 22 ratings — 3 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 Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals: Stories by Rae Bryant by Rae Cline (Goodreads Author), Rae Cline (Goodreads Author) 4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2011	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
	A Cappella Zoo #4: Spring 2010 by Colin Meldrum (Editor), Micah Unice (Assistant Editor), Meiron Cramer (Translator) 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2010	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
	Weird Tales #356 (Summer 2010) by Ann VanderMeer (Editor), Margaret Brundage (Illustrator), Rae Cline (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2010	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 Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review No. 18 by Rick Moody, Cris Mazza (Goodreads Author), Rae Cline (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013	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
	Mad to Live Erased by Maureen Alsop (Goodreads Author) (contributor), Kathi Appelt (Goodreads Author) (contributor), Rae Cline (Goodreads Author) (contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	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
	Eckleburg No. 20 by Cris Mazza (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rae Cline (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	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
	Eckleburg No. 21 by Faerl Marie Torres, Brishti Guha (Translator), Rae Cline (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 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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Where Moral Authority Begins: Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God

Child of God (Vintage International) by Cormac McCarthy

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It was in a fiction workshop at Sewanee Writers’ Conference when one of the workshop leaders said to the attendees, “Cormac McCarthy is Irish for don’t try this at home.” It was a response to my comment about McCarthy’s aesthetic—the limited punctuation, lyrical prose, unflinching detail to human vulnerabilities and violences. I was a fan. The leader’s comment was su Read more of this blog post »

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