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Bear v. SharkGiven a relatively level playing field -- i.e., water deep enough so that a shark could maneuver proficiently but shallow enough so that a bear could...Read More
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Guardian.co.uk, November 29, 2011
...Who's your favourite writer? I would like to put readers onto two young Americans, Kevin Wilson and Chris Bachelder . I might add that word for word, skill for skill, vision for vision, it is hard to beat William Trevor . What are your other...
Daily Beast, November 8, 2011
...response about deciding not to have children, I was reminded of the following passage from Abbott Awaits by Chris Bachelder. The book is a series of vignettes from the narrator, Abbott, as he deals with his 2 year old daughter and his pregnant, insomniac...
University of Cincinnati, September 23, 2011
...Caribbean Award.” The McMicken College of Arts and Sciences bolstered the English department’s faculty this year, hiring Chris Bachelder (fiction) and Danielle Deulen (poetry). Bachelder has written four novels and Deulen has won awards for her...
Wyoming Public Radio, July 10, 2011
...material and “Newsweek” critic Malcolm Jones’ negative reaction to it. Blake Bailey discusses Richard Yates and his work. Chris Bachelder uses, in his novel, as its central character early 20th century novelist Upton Sinclair. Jonathan Lethem calls...
New Yorker, June 14, 2011
...Summer Book.”) And for Fathers’ Day I’ll be giving all the dads I know a copy of Chris Bachelder’s new book, “Abbott Awaits,” which I read in galley form and will be reading again: it’s a sharp and brilliant and hilarious portrait of being...
WBRZ, May 2, 2011
...Click Image to Enlarge ADVOCATE FILE ABBOT AWAITS by Chris Bachelder; LSU Press, $18.95 softcover, 180 pp. By GREG LANGLEY Books editor ABBOT AWAITS According to an article in Newsweek, a Harvard professor named Daniel Gilbert wrote a book...
The Halifax Reader - Halifax Public Libraries, September 30, 2011
...weren't alone.(all quotes from library catalogue summaries unless otherwise noted)U.S.!: a novel by Chris Bachelder. Titular exclamation points often point toward humor, no surprise then that American satirist Bachelder would work one in. "In this...
The Book Bench, June 14, 2011
...Summer Book ”). And for Fathers’ Day I’ll be giving all the dads I know a copy of Chris Bachelder’s new book, “ Abbott Awaits ,” which I read in galley form and will be reading again: it’s a sharp and brilliant and hilarious portrait of...
The Rumpus.net, May 22, 2011
...a conversation with Elisa Albert . Also interviews with Edie Fake on his first book Gaylord Phoenix and with Chris Bachelder on his new novel Abbott Awaits . I’m Standing Right Next to You , Lidia Yuknavitch interviews our own Sugar. The Dark Mystery...
The Missouri Review, May 18, 2011
...in my future. A friend or two—and my thesis adviser—have been pretty insistent that I read US! by Chris Bachelder. It seems like every fiction writer I know has read Benjamin Percy’s Refresh, Refresh! , and if I let one more poet talk about Tomaz...
