Farewell Transmission: Notes from Hidden Spaces - McGrath, Will
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*Voice-driven literary nonfiction, similar to the reportage and literary journalism of John Jeremiah Sullivan (Pulphead), Leslie Jamison (The Empathy Exams; Make It Scream, Make It Burn), Luís Alberto Urrea (The Devil's Highway; Across the Wire), Eula Biss (Notes from No Man's Land), Brian Phillips (Impossible Owls), Tom Bissell (Magic Hours), and Ian Frazier (Travels in Siberia) *A compilation of humorous, accessible essays that provide entry points to difficult and timely subjects?poverty, gun violence, racism, and addiction?interspersed with lighter pieces on, among other things, Elvis…mehr

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*Voice-driven literary nonfiction, similar to the reportage and literary journalism of John Jeremiah Sullivan (Pulphead), Leslie Jamison (The Empathy Exams; Make It Scream, Make It Burn), Luís Alberto Urrea (The Devil's Highway; Across the Wire), Eula Biss (Notes from No Man's Land), Brian Phillips (Impossible Owls), Tom Bissell (Magic Hours), and Ian Frazier (Travels in Siberia) *A compilation of humorous, accessible essays that provide entry points to difficult and timely subjects?poverty, gun violence, racism, and addiction?interspersed with lighter pieces on, among other things, Elvis tribute artist festivals *Author's work has appeared in The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, the Christian Science Monitor, and Guernica *Regular contributor to Pacific Standard *Regional author tour, centered on the Twin Cities *Mass Galley Mailing *Major Awards Push *Author promotion at the Heartland Fall Forum, the Twin Cities Book Festival, and the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association conference *Excerpts in Literary Hub, Discovery Magazine, and Hazlitt *Interviews and targeted features prior to publication, including coverage by the Baltimore Sun, Legal Nomads, Michigan Public Radio, Minnesota Public Radio, Chicago Public Radio *Egalleys available on Edelweiss
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Will McGrath has worked as a reporter, homeless shelter caseworker, public radio producer, UPS truck loader, Burger King mayo-applicator, ghostwriter, and ghosteditor, in slightly different order. He spent twenty months living in the southern African kingdom of Lesotho - the subject of his book, Everything Lost is Found Again (Dzanc Books 2017), which won the Disquiet Open Borders Book Prize in 2017. He has written for The Atlantic, Pacific Standard, Foreign Affairs, Guernica, and Roads & Kingdoms, among other magazines and journals. His writing has won nonfiction awards including the 2014 Felice Buckvar Prize and has been translated into Chinese, Hungarian, and Japanese.