· In Planet Grim ( Books), the debut collection by Alex Behr, characters move through San Francisco, Portland—even Mars, looking for connection. Author Tom Bissell says, “Alex Behr’s imagination is wild, rigorous, and totally unique. I haven’t been able to decide if her stories are comedies intercut with horror or horror stories leavened by comedy, but [ ]. Alex Behr teaches fiction and creative nonfiction at Portland high schools through the Writers in the Schools program. Find out more at bltadwin.ru or on Twitter at @alex__behr. Planet Grim contains stories, ephemera, and flash fiction, some of which have appeared in Word Riot, Watershed Review, Nailed, Portland Review, and elsewhere. · In twenty-eight stories that draw blood while making you laugh, Alex Behr’s debut collection PLANET GRIM is a vivid, unsettling portrait of the gritty fringes of San Francisco and Portland, where complicated characters long for connection just out of bltadwin.ru: Books.
Alex Behr authored PLANET GRIM: STORIES ( Books, ). Her essays, interviews, and stories have appeared in Salon, Tin House, Bitch, The Rumpus, Nailed, and elsewhere. An adoptive mom, she has written about being in a transracial family for National Geographic School Division, Oregon Humanities, Mutha, and The Manifest-Station. Alex Behr's newly-published collection of stories, Planet Grim, is a stunning debut work by an important writer all of us should get to know. Ernest Hemingway said, "A writer's job is to tell the truth." Easier said than done. The "Truths" of our lives typically change as we struggle along the path that life lays out before us. In twenty-eight stories that draw blood while making you laugh, Alex Behr's debut collection PLANET GRIM is a vivid, unsettling portrait of the gritty fringes of San Francisco and Portland, where complicated characters long for connection just out of reach. Behr is an idiosyncratic, unpredictable prose stylist with an edge and willingness to.
In Planet Grim ( Books), the debut collection by Alex Behr, characters move through San Francisco, Portland—even Mars, looking for connection. Author Tom Bissell says, “Alex Behr’s imagination is wild, rigorous, and totally unique. I haven’t been able to decide if her stories are comedies intercut with horror or horror stories leavened by comedy, but . Books, While not every story in Planet Grim is set on planet Earth, the book delivers on the “Grim.” Alex Behr’s debut story collection is a gritty wonderland of junkies, burnouts, and dreamers, with most of its stories centered on the forgotten, drug-addled underworlds of the Pacific Northwest. Planet Grim - Fiction by Alex Behr. Books - October Review by David Breithaupt. bltadwin.ru is news, information, and guides to literary magazines, independent publishers, creative writing programs, alternative periodicals, indie bookstores, writing contests, and more.
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