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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

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A Mother’s Secret

by Werner Gundersheimer

In this 2011 essay, Werner Gundersheimer remembers his mother’s efforts to preserve a version of his childhood free of the Holocaust’s painful scars. “We all know that memory is selective, and that the mind blots out what it can’t bear to retain,” he writes. “For [Mom], the past was always present, and the only way to keep it at bay was to steer clear of it.”

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