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<\/a><\/p>\nThis is an excellent collection of stories, spanning characters, towns, and even centuries in and across Florida. \u00a0There are snakes and sinkholes and rage and loneliness, but Groff’s elegant prose is the real shining star. \u00a0I would read anything she wrote! \u00a0(The Fates and the Furies, Arcadia, Delicate Edible Birds, The Monsters of Templeton.<\/em>)<\/p>\nNew Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction<\/em>, edited by James Thomas and Robert Scotellaro<\/strong><\/p>\nA collection of flash fiction, where no story is more than two pages long. \u00a0Some of these are so stunning, I had to pause after reading them. \u00a0I ordered books by Elizabeth Ellen, Claudia Smith, and Thaisa Frank after reading their work in this collection.<\/p>\n
Dunk Tank<\/em> by Kayla Czaga<\/strong><\/p>\nThis is Czaga’s second poetry collection (For Your Safety Please Hold On<\/em> is her first) and it is just as excellent as her first. \u00a0Her language is fairly spare and undecorated, but her images are dazzling and each poem resonates in a visceral way.<\/p>\nSmall Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club <\/em>by Megan Gail Coles<\/strong><\/p>\nAn accomplished first novel by Newfoundland writer Coles. \u00a0The voice is so distinct, and the characters are so authentic–they are messy, and maddening, sometimes funny, sometimes violent. \u00a0It’s a novel that will stay with me for a long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What do English profs do during the summer? We read, of course! And when we read, we get so excited that we can\u2019t help raving about the books . . . because, hey!\u2013you might like them, too. Photo Credit: aaamsss Flickr via Compfight cc Andrea MacPherson: What I’m Reading this Summer Florida by Lauren Groff […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>Photo Credit: aaamsss<\/a> Flickr via Compfight<\/a> cc<\/a><\/p>\n