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Her stories have appeared in conjunctions, harpers, ploughshares, tin house, and best american short stories 2017. Fiona maazel is the author of the novels a little more human, woke up lonely, and last last chance. With frank grillo, kiele sanchez, matt lauria, jonathan tucker. The morning news tournament of books presented by field notes. Maazel has a real talent for taking these existential millstones of modern lifefear of death, failure, being alone, everythingand filtering them into morbidly funny, troublingly familiar forms. In this rollicking ride of a novel, maazel explores a world of family, fame and forgiveness. She obtained her ba at williams college and her mfa at bennington. Fiona maazel s new novel, woke up lonely, is a deliriously inventive tale of love and spycraft. Story lets go to the videotape, by fiona maazel harper. Thurlow dan is the founder of the helix, a cult that promises to cure loneliness in the twentyfirst century.
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