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Brock Clarke is the author of four novels — The Happiest People in the World, Exley, An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England and The Ordinary White Boy, along with three collections of short stories—including his most recent book The Price of the Haircut.

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My house in Cincinnati looked out on a Catholic elementary school parking lot. Often, when I should have been working or something, I sat on my front porch and smoked ...

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The great Muriel Spark, who died on April 13, 2006, and whose most famous novel was The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), bequeathed a great deal to her surviving readers. ...

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One of the marks of a good book is that it makes you reconsider similar but superior books—makes you remember why they mattered to you when you first read them, and why (or ...

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