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--Mitchell & Diana
We're happy to announce that Fiction Editor Mitchell Waldman's new short story collection is due out from Adelaide Books at the end of the month! For more information on the book, check out Mitchell and Diana's website.
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What they've been saying about Diana May-Waldman's A Woman’s Song:
"A dazzlingly stark collection of poetry."
"May-Waldman's poetry portrays many challenges of being a woman--a surprising amount for such a slim volume--sad, loving, remembering, and suffering."
"[A]n endearing and empowering 21st century ode to women! Waldman's poetry speaks to many women and on many levels. She reveals hard core truths as well as self-told lies about the nature of being a woman."
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What they're saying about Mitchell Waldman's Petty Offenses and Crimes of the Heart:
"These stories startle with sudden, uncompromising insight. They seem ordinary people engaged in ordinary lives until betrayals, accidents and misfortune put the puzzles of their weak choices and unfair chance into stark relief when they are left with a kind of clarity they might have been happier not to have "
"Faulkner said that an author's job is to make the extraordinary seem ordinary and to make the ordinary seem extraordinary, and in Petty Offenses this is what Waldman accomplishes. While reading the stories you may wonder "Is there any place safe to go?," but you will be glad that you spent time in Waldman's world."
"Truly a beautiful collection of stories about ordinary people living ordinary lives until various circumstances come along and change everything."
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