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Land of Go: Stories
Book by Barrett, Lynne
- GenresFiction
94 pages, Paperback
First published August 8, 1997
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About the author
Lynne Barrett
18 books38 followersMy most recent book is Making Good Time: True Stories of How We Do, and Don't, Get Around in South Florida, edited and with an introduction by Lynne Barrett, Jai-Alai Books. WLRN Public Radio interview:
https://www.wlrn.org/post/new-collect...
My work is in these Fall 2020 anthologies:
Grabbed: Poets & Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment, and Healing, edited by Elisa Albo, Richard Blanco, Caridad Moro, and Nikki Moustaki, published Beacon Press. And Miami Noir: The Classics, edited by Les Standiford, published by Akashic Books.
Magpies received the Gold Medal in General Fiction in the Florida Book Awards.
Publishers Weekly says of Magpies: "Barrett portrays adult lives with minimal flourishes and a powerful command of setting. Florida is electric with the tension of "all that can happen"--hurricanes, sinkholes, and a boom-and-bust history. It becomes as eerie as it is richly imagined, whether stories take place in an Art Deco building or a gas station. One of the year's finer university press offerings, the collection is especially noteworthy for "The Noir Boudoir," an atmospheric tale of unsettling realizations and the ways past events shadow the present." Full review at http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0...
Lynne Barrett is the award-winning author of The Secret Names of Women, The Land of Go, and her third collection, Magpies, which won the Gold Medal in Fiction in the Florida Book Awards. Her mini book on submitting to magazines is ,i.What Editors Want,,/i> from Rain Chain Press. She co-edited Birth: A Literary Companion and The James M. Cain Cookbook. Her work has appeared in Necessary Fiction, Blue Christmas, Delta Blues, Miami Noir, One Year to a Writing Life, Simply the Best Mysteries, A Hell of a Woman, Fort Lauderdale Magazine, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Painted Bride Quarterly, Real South, Night Train, The Southern Women’s Review, and many other anthologies and journals. She has received the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best mystery story from the Mystery Writers of America, the Moondance International Film Festival award for Best Short story, and fellowships from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts. With her husband and son, she lives in Miami. She teaches in the M.F.A. program in Creative Writing at Florida International University and edits The Florida Book Review. More information can be found at http://www.lynnebarrett.com
https://www.wlrn.org/post/new-collect...
My work is in these Fall 2020 anthologies:
Grabbed: Poets & Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment, and Healing, edited by Elisa Albo, Richard Blanco, Caridad Moro, and Nikki Moustaki, published Beacon Press. And Miami Noir: The Classics, edited by Les Standiford, published by Akashic Books.
Magpies received the Gold Medal in General Fiction in the Florida Book Awards.
Publishers Weekly says of Magpies: "Barrett portrays adult lives with minimal flourishes and a powerful command of setting. Florida is electric with the tension of "all that can happen"--hurricanes, sinkholes, and a boom-and-bust history. It becomes as eerie as it is richly imagined, whether stories take place in an Art Deco building or a gas station. One of the year's finer university press offerings, the collection is especially noteworthy for "The Noir Boudoir," an atmospheric tale of unsettling realizations and the ways past events shadow the present." Full review at http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0...
Lynne Barrett is the award-winning author of The Secret Names of Women, The Land of Go, and her third collection, Magpies, which won the Gold Medal in Fiction in the Florida Book Awards. Her mini book on submitting to magazines is ,i.What Editors Want,,/i> from Rain Chain Press. She co-edited Birth: A Literary Companion and The James M. Cain Cookbook. Her work has appeared in Necessary Fiction, Blue Christmas, Delta Blues, Miami Noir, One Year to a Writing Life, Simply the Best Mysteries, A Hell of a Woman, Fort Lauderdale Magazine, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Painted Bride Quarterly, Real South, Night Train, The Southern Women’s Review, and many other anthologies and journals. She has received the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best mystery story from the Mystery Writers of America, the Moondance International Film Festival award for Best Short story, and fellowships from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts. With her husband and son, she lives in Miami. She teaches in the M.F.A. program in Creative Writing at Florida International University and edits The Florida Book Review. More information can be found at http://www.lynnebarrett.com
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June 30, 2017
This slim volume (94 pages) collects five of Barrett's inimitable short stories, stories of young women (girls, really - a tween, a teenager, and three women in their twenties) coming to terms with what they are and what they want to be. Disclaimer: I've taken writing classes taught by Lynne Barrett - but even without that experience, reading these stories you would know at a gut level that Barrett understands what makes a story work, and work well, as every one of these do. Highly recommended - and if you can't find this out-of-print collection, look for Barrett's other, more recent, books. You'll want to read them too.
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