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Home. Malinda McCollum. The 12 loosely linked tales in McCollum’s prize-winning, virtuosic debut are as funny and vivid as the characters are lonely and desperate . . . Darkly comic and brimming with conviction, McCollum’s taut collection is an inverted portrait of the American dream. Booklist.
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THE PROBLEM: Jellyfish Review THE GOLDFISH: Passages North...
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The Surprising Place is a daring and harrowing triumph that...
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MALINDA MCCOLLUM. Malinda McCollum is the author of The...
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Apr 27, 2018 · By Malinda McCollum. 197 pp. University of Massachusetts Press. Paper, $19.95. All but one of the stories in Malinda McCollum’s collection, “The Surprising Place,” are set in Des Moines,...
The Iowa Summer Writing Festival. Malinda McCollum is the author of The Surprising Place, winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction. Her stories have appeared in The Paris Review (which awarded her the Plimpton Prize), McSweeney’s, ZYZZYVA, Epoch, and elsewhere.
Jul 9, 2018 · July 9, 2018. In Malinda McCollum’s debut story collection, The Surprising Place (winner of the 2017 Juniper Prize for Fiction), readers meet striking, indelibly drawn characters that habitually walk a thin line between self-preservation and self-destruction.
Feb 20, 2018 · Malinda McCollum, a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the Plimpton Prize for Fiction, and a Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing. Her short stories have appeared in The Paris Review, ZYZZYVA, McSweeney's, and Epoch, among other publications.
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