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C. Morgan Babst

Editorial Outtakes: The Floating World

C. Morgan Babst
Editorial Outtakes: The Floating World

Editorial Outtakes is a series in which we publish excerpts from recent books that you won’t find anywhere else because, prior the publication, these sections were cut. This installment of Editorial Outtakes features a deleted scene from novelist C. Morgan Babst's debut The Floating World. Published in 2017 and out this month in paperback, Babst's acclaimed story of life in New Orleans following the destruction of Hurricane Katrina has been hailed as a poetic and tragic family tale with the … [Read more...] about Editorial Outtakes: The Floating World

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