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 American Pop, the new novel by Atlanta-based author Snowden Wright. Published by Harper Collins earlier this week, the novel follows the Forster family, a clan whose fortune is made via patriarch Harold's famous Panola Cola Company. With their roots planted in … [Read more...] about Editorial Outtake: American Pop by Snowden Wright
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Editorial Outtakes: The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist
Editorial Outtakes is a series in which we publish excerpts from recent books that you won’t find anywhere else because, prior publication, these sections were cut. This installment of Editorial Outtakes features two outtakes from The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist, a novel by journalist and fiction writer Michael Downs. An account of the life and times of Hartford's Horace Wells, the dentist who discovered that nitrous oxide had the power to alleviate pain during … [Read more...] about Editorial Outtakes: The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist
Web Exclusive Interview: Anton DiSclafani
In our December Web Exclusive story, "Flight," author Anton DiSclafani freezes a moment in the life of an aged John J. Audubon. It's a moment that allows us a bird's-eye view of the famed ornithologist/artist's exotic origins, his loss and his passion, and his rivalry with Alexander Wilson. It's elegiac without being mawkish, and you walk away feeling as though you've just been up close with a rare and brilliant specimen. Erin McReynolds: What drew you to Audubon, as a character? Anton … [Read more...] about Web Exclusive Interview: Anton DiSclafani