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![]() ![]() ZYZZYVA: I was struck by the ambition of Maggie Brown & Other Stories. Peter Orner answered questions about Maggie Brown & Others (and other matters) via email: ![]() Maggie Brown in a business suit…You end up forgetting the people you shouldn’t and remembering the people who’ve forgotten all about you.’’ “She looked right at me, didn’t know me from Adam, and marched onward. “A few years ago I saw her at a Minneapolis airport,’’ he writes. The new book’s title story, “Maggie Brown,’’ about the narrator’s lost romance with a college girlfriend, is vintage Orner. If you need something done, ask a busy man. He’s also somehow found the time to edit three non-fiction books for the Voice of Witness Series: Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives, Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives (co-edited with Annie Holmes), and Lavil: Life, Love and Death in Port-Au-Prince (co-edited with Evan Lyon). Orner’s eclectic body of work includes the novels The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo and Love and Shame and Love an essay collection/memoir, Am I Alone Here? Notes on Reading to Live and Living To Read, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and three short story collections: The Esther Stories, Last Car Over The Sagamore Bridge, and the just published Maggie Brown & Others: Stories (Little, Brown and Company). A former professor and department chair at San Francisco State University, he is now a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth. In an age of instant reactions and hair-trigger controversy, Peter Orner is a writer who slows things down, living up to Susan Sontag’s admonition that “the writer’s first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth…and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation.’’īorn in Chicago, he graduated from the University of Michigan and the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop. ![]()
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