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Kevin Brockmeier


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Kevin Brockmeier is the author of The Truth About Celia and a children's book, City of Names. He has published stories in The Georgia Review, The Carolina Quarterly, and McSweeney's, and his story "Space" from Things That Fall from the Sky has been selected for The Best American Short Stories. He has received the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award, an Italo Calvino Short Fiction Award, a James Michener-Paul Engle Fellowship, two O'Henry Awards (one, a first prize), and most recently, a NEA grant. He lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.
 

Genres: Horror, Fantasy
 
Novels
   City of Names (2002)
   The Truth about Celia (2003)
   The Brief History of the Dead (2006)
   Grooves (2006)
   The Illumination (2011)
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This Impossible Brightness (2024)
Jessica Bryant Klagmann
"In the eyes of This Impossible Brightness, humans bear a particular mark of distinction, one that's spiritual or psychological rather than physical. We are the species that tries to change direction in midair; we attempt, impossibly, to take our fall and transform it into an ascent. Jessica Bryant Klagmann's writing seems motivated by this same desire. Everywhere in her novel's pages, you sense some force yearning to turn the future into the past - to forestall the autumn of the world, spin it around, and allow it to burst into spring. Through her focus on this effort, she produces a feeling that's sustained and powerful, a clear-eyed grief leavened by a mad hope."
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Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart (2024)
GennaRose Nethercott
"GennaRose Nethercott's imagination is boundless, her writing emerging from a rich personal folklore of which Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart suggests only the edge. Everything in this book is alive and ready to love you or to wound you."
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The Deluge (2023)
Stephen Markley
"A major achievement, bountifully imagined. Unquestionably one of the best novels to grapple with the climate crisis. I am haunted by it."

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Anthologies containing stories by Kevin Brockmeier
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Tiny Nightmares (2020)
Very Short Stories of Horror
edited by
Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 (2012)
(Best American Nonrequired Reading)
edited by
Dave Eggers

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