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Alternatives for Germany
Look Away: A True Story of Murders, Bombings, and a Far-Right Campaign to Rid Germany of Immigrants by Jacob Kushner. Grand Central Publishing, 336 pages. 2024. On November 8, 2011, in Winzerla, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Jena, a city in the former East Germany, a thirty-six-year-old woman named Beate Zschäpe borrowed a cell phone from a student on a tram and called the police.
One Beer Tour: Strange Poetry and Prose from the Northwest
Join us as we welcome these four magnificent and talented writers on their One Beer Tour: Strange Poetry and Prose from the Midwest. You'll hear works from Leyna Kros, Ellen Welcker, Maya Jewell Zeller, and Laura Read. Leyna Krow is the author of the short story collection I'm Fine, But You Appear To Be Sinking (Featherproof Books 2017) and the novel Fire Season (Viking 2022), which was nominated for The Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize.
Summer Stories: 'The Octopus Finds Love At Home'
By Leyna Krow What can I say? I’d always been a solitary creature. I thought I would spend my life alone, like my mother did, and my grandmother, and all my female ancestors for the last 300 million years or so. I won’t claim I was happy in my solitude, but I wasn’t unhappy either. After all, I was busy. I didn’t have time for friendships or amorous pursuits, my nights full of stalking and hunting and eating, then cleaning my suction cups.
7 Historical Fiction Novels Set in the Pacific Northwest
Reading Lists Leyna Krow, author of "Fire Season," recommends stories that take place in Washington, Oregon, and Canada The Northwest, where I live and where my novel is set, is a big place and it is a lot of things. It is the damp, mossy woods of the coast, the high desert, and the snowy, jagged mountain ranges that divide the two. It is home to weird and real creatures like giant octopuses, and also giant earthworms. There are an unsettling number of volcanoes.
Summary and Reviews of Fire Season by Leyna Krow
1 On August 4, 1889, Barton Heydale spent his lunch hour with a prostitute named Roslyn who lived and worked in a two-room apartment in Wolfe's Hotel on Railroad Avenue. The apartment was above a lunchroom, where Barton often stopped for something to eat after his visits with Roslyn. But on this day, he was consumed with the trouble of making a decision, and so he chose to forgo his meal in favor of sitting in Roslyn's tiny kitchen and smoking cigarettes.
Sinkhole by Leyna Krow
The realtor showed us the house on West Garland Avenue and insisted it had everything we wanted. “Look,” he said, “there’s a fireplace, granite countertops, crown molding, and a large sinkhole in the yard.” My husband Alex and I laughed because we thought he was kidding. “No, really,” the realtor said. We told him we didn’t want a sinkhole. That was not an item on our list. We agreed on this with absolute certainty. Back then, we always agreed with absolute certainty. “I know,” the realtor said.
Boxes
I repurposed my first cardboard box the weekend it snowed. We weren’t isolating in earnest yet. My husband planned to start working remotely that coming Monday. I was waiting to hear about the state of my own office, and about our daughter’s preschool. click to enlarge The Sunday with the snow, we took our last family shopping trip. Our daughter is three, and we wanted to move her from her toddler bed to a twin. The store said they would call us when it was ready to be delivered.
Summer Stories: Eleanor’s the World’s Largest Ball of Twine
Leyna Krow is the author of the short story collection “I’m Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinking.” She lives in Spokane with her husband and daughter. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, citizens of Grimsville young and old, I write to you today with good news. The wait is over.
Volume 65, Issue 3
Contributors GAROUS ABDOLMALEKIAN is an award-winning Iranian poet. His debut poetry col-lection in translated English, Lean Against The Late Hour, was published to wide critical acclaim in 2020. Abdolmalekian is the recipient of the 2023 Roddi Literature Prize for the Italian translation of his most recent book titled The Middle East: A Trilogy— War, Love, Solitude. He is currently the Po-etry Editor at Nashre-Cheshmeh Publishing House.
I'm Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinking — Featherproof
15.95 by Leyna Krow All print orders of this book come with free digital files: .mobi file for Kindle, .epub for other e-readers, and an e-book PDF! In I’m Fine, But You Appear to Be Sinking, the strange collides with the mundane: close to home and far from it, in suburban neighborhoods and rural communities, with cycling apocalypses and backyard tigers. Each story stands alone, but they are connected through reoccurring imagery and a shared theme of protagonists in emotional peril.
Summer Stories: Wild Child
As is tradition, we kick off the season with a story from Shawn Vestal, a Spokesman-Review columnist and author of the award-winning short story collection "Godforsaken Idaho" and the new novel "Daredevils." So pack up your tent and sleeping bags and join us as we head into "The Woods." For the third year, The Spokesman-Review will turn our Sunday Today cover over to the fiction writers.
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