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The Bears and the Bees

July 8th, 2008 Brian Van Reet · No Comments

If you’re a skeptic in need of a reason to pick up our summer issue - and why not a subscription, while you’re at it? - trust me when I say just one word: “Bearskin.”
James A. McLaughlin’s novella is, simply put, a great story. A great, naturalistic, suspenseful story, complete with bees, a wizened mushroom hunter, [...]

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Blogging the Bundle

June 25th, 2008 Brian Van Reet · 1 Comment

As a grad student intern at The Missouri Review, one of my duties besides reading manuscripts is to blog. But what? After a few false starts it finally hit me: keep it simple, stupid. Write what you know. . . .

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