No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine

Clarke, Jaime [Editor]; Cotton, Mary [Editor];

ISBN 10: 0982631847 / ISBN 13: 9780982631843

Published by Dzanc Books, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine
• Publisher: Dzanc Books
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0982631847
• ISBN 13: 9780982631843
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 12 ounces

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Synopsis

This is an anthology of work published in the first sixteen issues of the literary magazine Post Road, which was founded in 1999. The journal has seen work re-published in Best American Short Stories and the Pushcart Prize. The editors of the journal asked writers to select favorites from over the years.

About the Author

Mary Cotton is the pseudonymous author of nine novels for young adults, six of them New York Times bestsellers. She is also a fiction editor for the literary magazine Post Road, and is coeditor of No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road. She is co-owner of Newtonville Books in Boston, Massachusetts.

Jaime Clarke is a graduate of the University of Arizona and holds an MFA from Bennington College. He is the author of the novels We're So Famous, Vernon Downs, World Gone Water and Garden Lakes; editor of the anthologies Don't You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes, Conversations with Jonathan Lethem, and Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers; and co-editor of the anthologies No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine (with Mary Cotton) and Boston Noir 2: The Classics (with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton). He is a founding editor of the literary magazine Post Road, now published at Boston College, and co-owner, with his wife, of Newtonville Books, an independent bookstore in Boston.