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Dennis McFarland

Dennis McFarland’s most recent novel is Nostalgia. His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, and the Scholar, among other places.

Alpharetta

Alpharetta

“Naturally, we feared that some form of retribution would be waiting for us, but to our relief we didn’t see Daddy Perry again until suppertime.”

by Dennis McFarland | Tuesday, June 02, 2020
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Bucksaw

Two boys pay a visit to their father

by Dennis McFarland | Monday, June 03, 2019
Darkspur

Darkspur

by Dennis McFarland | Monday, March 06, 2017
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The Preacher’s Wife

by Dennis McFarland | Friday, September 01, 2006
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Start Off Dead

by Dennis McFarland | Monday, January 06, 2014
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Stateside

by Dennis McFarland | Friday, March 01, 2013
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Handsome Boy 

by Dennis McFarland | Friday, December 06, 2013

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last month at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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