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Aug 12, 2018 • Sunday August 16th 6PM: Paulette Perhach (author of the self-explanatory guidebook The Writer’s Life) and Jarret Middleton (the rural supernatural thriller Darkansas) will read from their works, while the Bushwick Book Club will perform literature-inspired music during the Columbia City Beatwalk.https://bit.ly/2MaBrkN Use the code SUMMERBOOKS to register.
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May 18, 2018 • http://www.seattle7writers.org/summer-bookfest.html Saturday, June 2, 2018 Noon – 2 pm Eagle Harbor Books 157 Winslow Way East, Bainbridge Island For the fourth year, Eagle Harbor Books on Bainbridge Island and Seattle7Writers will host Summer Bookfest, a literary festival that brings together Pacific NW authors and readers, and raises money for literary causes. Elizabeth George will be on...
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May 18, 2018 • https://www.thestranger.com/events/26154870/julia-dixon-evans-matt-young-jarret-middleton
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Mar 19, 2018 • JARRET MIDDLETON Fiction / Darkansas Jarret Middleton wrote Darkansas and the novella An Dantomine Eerly. He was the founding editor of Dark Coast Press and the classics library Pharos Editions. His fiction, essays, and reviews have appeared in Shelf Awareness, The Quarterly Conversation, The Weeklings, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Collagist, SmokeLong Quarterly, HTMLGIANT, The Breadline Anthology, Hotel Angeline: A Novel in 36 Voices, and In Heaven, Everything is Fine: Fiction...
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Mar 19, 2018 • http://www.powells.com/post/lists/24-of-our-favorite-small-presses Dzanc Books is a nonprofit publisher of literary fiction that also runs several writing instruction and literacy programs across the country. Recent offerings include Darkansas, The Suicide of Claire Bishop, and The Brunist Day of Wrath.
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Jan 24, 2018 • So You Want to Read Literary Horror: Here’s Where to Start
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Jan 24, 2018 • http://www.powells.com/staff-top-fives-2017 Powell’s Top 5 Staff Pick – Kathi K. Paris in the Present Tense by Mark Helprin To me, Helprin doesn’t so much write as seduce. His exquisite prose creates worlds and characters that are immediate and overwhelmingly romantic. I loved this story of a profoundly good man struggling with the wounds of his past to...
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Nov 29, 2017 • Darkansas by Jarret Middleton Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal Middleton, Jarret. Darkansas. Dzanc. Aug. 2018. 216p. ISBN 9781945814297. $26.95. F In this urgently written, dark-lit novel from Pharos editor Middleton, country musician Jordan has been living raggedly on the road, avoiding his family while trying to live up to the reputation of his famed bluegrass musician father, Walker Bayne. When...
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Nov 1, 2017 • OTHERPPL Podcast w/ Brad Listi: A Conversation with Jarret Middleton Episode 490 — Jarret Middleton
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Nov 1, 2017 • DARKANSAS November Selection of The Nervous Breakdown Book Club! November: Darkansas, by Jarret Middleton “Gritty, ghostly, poetic [. . .] I’d bet a fifth of the top-shelf stuff it will be considered one of the best debuts of the year.” –Donald Ray Pollock, author of The Heavenly Table Jordan is a country musician living in the...
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Nov 1, 2017 • “I Have Always Distrusted Realism”: An Interview With Jarret Middleton By Tobias Carroll On October 30, 2017 · 0 Comments · In Featured, Interviews, Lit. It begins with a hint of the familiar: Jordan, a hard-living musician, returning to his hometown for his brother’s wedding, awaiting the legacy of familial conflict that awaits him. That’s how Jarret Middleton‘s new novel Darkansas starts, and quickly takes a turn...
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Oct 19, 2017 • Middleton’s ‘Darkansas’ is sinister and mystical It’s a family tree, darkly. Not too long ago, mentioning the Ozarks meant you’d risk inviting jokes about kissing cousins, bluegrass jamborees or harmless hillbillies with mountain moonshine and happy naivete. Donald Harington and others have been writing about hillbillies for decades, but it was Daniel Woodrell in the...
