Category: Fiction
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Why did the Huffington Post Call Minnesota State, Mankato’s MFA a Top 25 underrated program?
A while back, The Huffington Post posted a nice little article providing info on…(drum roll)… (deep echoey voice calling out)… “The Top 25 Underrated Creative Writing MFA Programs”. Minnesota State, Mankato (MNSU MFA), where I teach was on the list. The author, Seth Abramson, wasn’t exactly sure why people in the know like the program so…
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Cracking the Bell III
After this, I’ll stop talking about it all for a while! There are plenty of negatives that come with a high school sport like football. Yes. Of course. Potentially life-changing collisions (few, but they do occur, and they are enormously publicized), danger that intense social integration goes cult-like and players stop believing everyone else’s rules…
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Cracking the Bell I: Football was good for me.
Cracking the Bell, certainly my last football book, comes out tomorrow, so I’m going to post a few times in the next few hours. We’ll start here: I was a damn mess until high school football. It organized me in sudden fashion. It was exhausting. It hurt. It was thrilling. It facilitated tight friendships with…
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50 Things I Thought While Writing Hooper
When a book comes out, you get asked about your inspiration a lot. For Hooper, I have had a really hard time articulating it, because the book comes from lots of places. Here’s a list of some things I thought, at least. Hey. I love basketball! I’m so short. I write jokes, not dunk basketballs.…
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Stupid Fast Info
STUPID FAST AWARDS Cybil’s Award for Best Young Adult Fiction American Booksellers’ Association Best of the Year list Junior Library Guild Selection (All Three Stupid Fast Books) YALSA (American Library Association) Best of the Year list Minnesota Book Award for Young Peoples’ Lit (For Nothing Special) Outstanding Book by a Wisconsin Author Georgia Peach Award…