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Charles Baxter is the Edelstein-Keller Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota. His latest book is There’s Something I Want You to Do: Stories. (April 2018)
Never a Dull Moment
Joy Williams’s characters seem to be in the grip of a god or a demon and seem to be following orders whose logic even they could not possibly justify.
The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories
by Joy Williams
January 14, 2016 issue
The Hideous Unknown of H.P. Lovecraft
From generation to generation the cult of Lovecraft grows
The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft
edited with a foreword and notes by Leslie S. Klinger, and with an introduction by Alan Moore
December 18, 2014 issue
Which Banville Shall We Choose?
Ancient Light
by John Banville
Vengeance
by Benjamin Black
December 20, 2012 issue
A Different Kind of Delirium
The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories
by Don DeLillo
February 9, 2012 issue
Behind Murakami’s Mirror
The unrealism of 1Q84
1Q84
by Haruki Murakami, translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel.
December 8, 2011 issue
Flowering Porter
Collected Stories and Other Writings
by Katherine Anne Porter, edited by Darlene Harbour Unrue
June 11, 2009 issue
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