Eric Bennett. Northwestern Univ./TriQuarterly, $17.95 trade paper (264p) ISBN 978-0-8101-3121-7
Bennett’s debut novel begins with a stunning revelation—the bestselling author of an Iraq war memoir is about to be exposed as a fraud on national television, and he knows it. John Townley is a calculating fake, who admits that he “had ascended to...
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Eric Bennett. Univ. of Iowa, $22.50 ISBN 978-1-60938-371-8
Novelist Bennett (A Big Enough Lie) takes a look at American creative writing programs that avoids the tired “New York or MFA?” question. Instead, he considers how M.F.A. writing programs first emerged in the U.S., and how creative writing gained...
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Eric Bennett, illus. by Milanka Reardon. Penguin Place, $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-692-78885-1
Noodles the penguin and his fish friend, Albie, get a chance to save Christmas in this humorous follow-up to Noodles and Albie: A Penguin Journey. (Never mind that neither animal has heard of the holiday.) Bennett’s story primarily revolves around...
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