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Castle Freeman Jr.

Eli Don’t Hunt

June 21, 2018

New fiction from NER 39.2

 

Joe Fisher

Ihad no choice, Jane liked to tell her friends. Nobody else would come. Why not?

Deer season, said Jane.

Deer season. Of course.

Nobody would come. Nobody could. Nobody was around, I was told. 

Who told you? 

The deputy. Deputy . . . Deputy . . . What’s his name, again?

♦

Treat. It was Deputy Treat who set Jane straight. She had walked into the kitchen with her shopping, found the small round hole in the middle of one of the glass panes in the window over the sink. She called the sheriff’s number. They said somebody would be along. Jane waited in the front room. She wouldn’t wait in the kitchen. The hole in the glass was level with her eyes as she stood at the window. She showed it to the deputy. She knew what it was. [Read more]

Castle Freeman Jr. is a longtime contributor of short fiction to NER, most recently with “Enough of Billy” (NER 38.2, 2017). He lives in southeastern Vermont.

from NER 39.2
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Castle Freeman Jr.

Enough of Billy

June 23, 2017

“Addison” by Patricia LeBon Herb

Three of McKinnon’s foreign cows were at the fence when Eli turned off the highway and into McKinnon’s lane. Great red beasts, shambling and shaggy, they looked like ruined carpets. They looked like buffaloes. But they weren’t buffaloes. McKinnon’s buffaloes were in one of his other pastures.

The animals stared through their fence at Eli as he passed. He waved at them. Eli waved at everyone. Up the rise to the house and barns, into the yard. The doctor’s car parked there. Eli pulled in beside it, stopped. Everywhere, McKinnon’s poultry: McKinnon’s barred rocks, McKinnon’s guinea fowl, McKinnon’s huge gray geese striding about like lords, with a lord’s height, a lord’s pride, a lord’s brains.

Eli parked his truck and stepped down into the yard. A goose whose head was level with his waist advanced menacingly on him, but Eli made a feint toward it, and the goose sheared off and let him be.

Wesley came out of the barn. He was wearing rubber boots knee-high and carrying a bucket of green mud. He nodded at Eli, joined him, and put his bucket down.

“What have you got there?” Eli asked.

“Goose shit,” said Wesley. “Swamping goose shit all morning. Worst job on the place, you know it? Worse than cows.”

Eli nodded.

[read more]

From NER 38.2

 

Castle Freeman Jr. is a longtime contributor of short fiction to NER, most recently with “Squirrel Trouble at Uplands” (NER 35.4). He lives in southeastern Vermont.

 

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Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Castle Freeman Jr., Enough of Billy, S. Katz

More New Books by NER Authors

December 18, 2015

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Paine’s stellar collection offers readers a transporting experience.—Publishers Weekly

NER is pleased to announce the release of Tom Paine‘s new book A Boy’s Book of Nervous Breakdowns (LSU Press). Tom Paine is a member of our editorial panel, and his work has appeared in NER 20.3.

The author of The Pearl of Kuwait and Scar Vegas, Paine is associate professor in the MFA program at the University of New Hampshire. He has published work in the New Yorker, Harper’s, and Story, among others, and has been featured in anthologies for the O. Henry Awards, the Pushcart Prize, and New Stories from the South: The Year.

A Boy’s Book of Nervous Breakdowns is available from LSU Press and other booksellers.

 

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The world in its raging, rich variety fills these poems, overflowing into vivid images that root Maia’s political and social attention firmly in the real scenes and objects all around us. —Cole Swenson

University of Pittsburgh Press has recently released The Invisible Bridge/El puente invisible: Selected Poems of Circe Maia, written by Maia and translated by Jesse Lee Kercheval, an NER author. His work was most recently featured in Vol. 16.2. 

Kercheval is a poet, fiction writer, memoirist, and translator. She is the author of fifteen books, most recently the bilingual poetry collection Enxtranjera/Stranger (Editorial Yaugarú, 2015) and the novel My Life as a Silent Movie (Indiana University Press, 2013). She was the director of the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing for six years, and is now the Director of the MFA Program of Creative Writing there. She has been the recipient of various fellowships, including one to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

The Invisible Bridge/El puente invisible is available from University of Pittsburgh Press and other booksellers.

 

41WLEkIU8YL._SX328_BO1,204,203,200_[The I Ching is] the only thing that is amazingly true, period . . . You don’t have to believe anything to read it, because besides being a great book to believe in, it’s also very fantastic poetry. ―Bob Dylan

We are pleased to announce that David Hinton‘s translation of I Ching has been released by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. His work has previously appeared in NER in 1984.

Hinton’s many translations of classical Chinese poetry have earned wide acclaim for creating compelling contemporary poems that convey the actual texture and density of the originals. He is also the first translator in more than a century of the four seminal masterworks of Chinese philosophy: Tao Te Ching, Chuang Tzu, Analects, and Mencius. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has won the Landon Translation Award, the PEN Translation Award, and, most recently, the Thornton Wilder Award for lifetime achievement from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Hinton’s I Ching is available directly from Macmillan and other booksellers.

 

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51JjcqtnioL._SX327_BO1,204,203,200_If the devil is in the details, then the devil has met his match. Castle Freeman Jr. conjures an intricate tete-a-tete with the devil into a Vermont home-brew of brimstone and beneficence. Fast-paced, compulsive, The Devil in the Valley leaves you wanting more. Temptation on the page. —Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and After Alice

NER is excited to announce Overlook Press’s release of The Devil in the Valley, by Castle Freeman Jr. Freeman’s work has appeared frequently in NER, most recently in Vol. 35.4.

Freeman is the author of four other novels, including All That I Have and Go With Me (coming as a film starring Anthony Hopkins and Julia Stiles), two collections of short stories, and many essays and other nonfiction. His stories have been mentioned or included in The Best American Short Stories and other collections. He lives in southeastern Vermont.

The Devil in the Valley is available at the Vermont Book Shop and other booksellers.

 

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41kbYmCgjJL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_Huddle is a source of light in an often gray world.―Booklist

[Huddle’s poetry is] luminous and majestic.― Philip Deaver, Southern Review

NER congratulates poet David Huddle for recent publication of his collection Dream Sender: Poems by LSU Press. His work has appeared in Vol. 13.2 in 1990 and he formerly served as acting editor for NER in 1995.

David Huddle is from Ivanhoe, Virginia, and he’s lived in Vermont for 44 years. His fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in The American Scholar, Esquire, Appalachian Heritage, The New Yorker, Harper’s, Poetry, Story, Shenandoah, Agni, Green Mountains Review, The Sow’s Ear, Plume, and Georgia Review. He is the author of nineteen novels, short story collections, essays,  and volumes of poetry, including Glory River and Blacksnake at the Family Reunion.

Dream Sender is available from LSU Press and other booksellers.

Filed Under: NER Authors' Books Tagged With: Castle Freeman Jr., David Hinton, David Huddle, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Tom Paine

New England Review in Boston

March 6, 2013

AWP logoMarch 6 through March 9

8:30 am. to 6 p.m.
AWP Book Fair
New England Review, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Bread Loaf School of English, New England Young Writers’ Conference, Middlebury College Program in Creative Writing: Tables C5-C7
(for AWP conference registrants; free to the public Saturday, March 9)

Friday, March 8: 9:00–10:15 a.m.
New England Review Celebrates Vermont Writers:
Kellam Ayres, Robert Cohen, Castle Freeman Jr., Sydney Lea, Cleopatra Mathis
Vermont is home to more writers per capita than any other state in the nation, and Vermont authors work in a wide variety of aesthetics and styles—some with no particular ties to place and others decidedly rooted. Founded in 1978, New England Review publishes authors from all over the world, but in this reading, we’re proud to present five outstanding writers who live and work in our home state, and whose writing has recently appeared in our pages.
Hynes Convention Center, Room 303
(for AWP conference registrants only)

Saturday, March 9, 3 p.m.
The Teaching Press: Literary Magazines and Learning. (Travis Kurowski, Jay Baron Nicorvo, Carolyn Kuebler, Ben George, Jodee Stanley) Editors from leading literary magazines New England Review, Ecotone, Ninth Letter, and Third Coast discuss the educational benefits of literary magazines on today’s campuses. Topics will include the teaching press, experiential learning environments, learning-based outcomes, and how campus literary magazines are changing 21st-century publishing.
(for AWP conference registrants only)
Hynes Convention Center, Room 313

Filed Under: Events, NER Community Tagged With: AWP, Castle Freeman Jr., Cleopatra Mathis, Kellam Ayres, Robert Cohen, Sydney Lea

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