The Monstrosity Gazette: A Weekly Smattering of All Things Literary...

"The closest we will ever come to an orderly universe is a good library."


—Ashleigh Brilliant

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Today in Literary History:

On this day in 1939, John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath was published. Although Steinbeck believed that he had succeeded in his "very grave attempt to do a first-rate piece of work," he was so convinced that his "revolutionary" book would be unpopular and unread that he tried to dissuade his publisher from having a large first printing.
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Literary Pic of the Week:

© 2005 Wilbur Pierce

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Book on my Radar:

Burning Bright: Stories
by Ron Rash
Ecco (March 2010)
224 pages

Summary in a Sentence:

A collection of short fiction from Southern writer Ron Rash that depict characters living in Appalachia from the time of the American Civil War to the early twenty-first century.

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