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September 18, 2020
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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

Writing the Unimaginable

by Amitav Ghosh

Fires, hurricanes, windstorms, and more—as a changing climate wreaks havoc on the U.S., with each coming year slated to be worse than the last, we’re revisiting Amitav Ghosh’s essay from our Autumn 2016 issue. Ghosh was caught in a deadly cyclone in 1978 in New Delhi, leading him to examine how fiction writers should incorporate the devastating effects of climate change into their work. “We have entered a time in human history,” he writes, “when the wild has become the norm.”

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