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“I really wanted to just drive and talk with someone”: An Interview with John Gallaher

“I really wanted to just drive and talk with someone”: An Interview with John Gallaher

John Gallaher’s book-length poem In A Landscape has the feel of a long, wide-ranging conversation with an old friend. It’s like one of those cross-country car ride conversations when there’s time to talk about anything and everything: the tiny details of day-to-day living and the meaning-of-life questions that keep us up at night. His other…

Far Beyond the Pale in 1970’s Missouri:  A Tiny Interview With Daren Dean
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Far Beyond the Pale in 1970’s Missouri: A Tiny Interview With Daren Dean

Daren Dean’s novel, Far Beyond the Pale, explores masculinity, religion, and delinquency in a coming of age story set in rural 1970’s Missouri. The novel follows Honeyboy who has moved back to Kingdom County, Missouri along with his mother following a stint in California. They return, in part, to leave their baggage in California behind but…