Mary Miller's Big World is the second book and first work of fiction to come out of Short Flight/Long Drive Books, a publishing arm of the independent literary journal Hobart. The characters in Mary Miller's debut short story collection are at once autonomous and lonesome, possessing both a longing to connect with those around them and a cynicism regarding their ability to do so, whether they're holed up in a motel room in Pigeon Forge with an air gun shooting boyfriend as in "Fast Trains" or navigating the rooms of their house with their dad after their mother s death as in "Leak." Mary Miller's writing is unapologetically honest and efficient and the gut-wrenching directness of her prose is reminiscent of Mary Gaitskill and Courtney Eldridge, if Gaitskill's and Eldridge's stories were set in the south and reeked of spilt beer and cigarette smoke.
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Mary Miller's stories have been published in dozens of print and online journals, including Black Clock, Mississippi Review, McSweeney's Quarterly, Oxford American, Quick Fiction, elimae, Smokelong Quarterly, and Hobart. Her story "Leak" was selected by ZZ Packer for inclusion in New Stories from the South, 2008. She is currently a student at the Center for Writers in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
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Wonderful and touching stories,
By Curtis Smith (PA) - See all my reviews
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Mary Miller's Big World presents the world with a new and wonderful voice in the world of short fiction. Her characters are unique and her prose is clean and fresh. Highly recommended.
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One of the strongest female voices today,
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I discovered MMs work at the Literary Death Match, an off-site event at this year's AWP Chicago writer's conference. The editor of Hobart, Aaron Burch, read from BIG WORLD. And after that it was all over for me. I got the collection and LOVED it. Keep an eye out for her other work. In fact, SEEK it out. Other similar voices that I have recently discovered, would include Mary Gaitskill (BAD BEHAVIOR), Holly Goddard Jones (GIRL TROUBLE) and Amelia Gray (AM/PM).
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Must read,
By Sarah Smart (Southern State) - See all my reviews
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Mary Miller's "little" book is a very enjoyable read. The stories, all dealing with young women's struggles, are both sad & funny.
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