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Padgett Powell
(b.1952)Padgett Powell is an American novelist in the Southern literary tradition. His debut novel, Edisto (1984), was nominated for the American Book Award and was excerpted in The New Yorker.Powell has been a writing professor at the University of Florida since 1984.
Awards: James Tait Black (2011)
Novels
Edisto (1984)
A Woman Named Drown (1987)
Edisto Revisited (1996)
Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men (2000)
aka Hologram
The Interrogative Mood (2009)
You & Me (2012)
A Woman Named Drown (1987)
Edisto Revisited (1996)
Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men (2000)
aka Hologram
The Interrogative Mood (2009)
You & Me (2012)
Collections
Typical (1991)
Aliens of Affection (1998)
You & I (2011)
Cries for Help, Various (2015)
Blasphemy and Other Ancestors (2024) (with others)
Aliens of Affection (1998)
You & I (2011)
Cries for Help, Various (2015)
Blasphemy and Other Ancestors (2024) (with others)
Novellas and Short Stories
Non fiction show
Books containing stories by Padgett Powell
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011 (2011)
(Best American Nonrequired Reading)
edited by
Dave Eggers
New Stories from the South 2010 (2010)
The Year's Best
(New Stories from the South)
edited by
Amy Hempel
The Future Dictionary of America (2004)
edited by
Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer, Eli Horowitz and Nicole Krauss
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Padgett Powell recommends
Bubblegum (2020)
Adam Levin
"Levin is the new Mailer. Think The Naked and The Dead, remove World War II, insert the war we are in now; up the introspection, lower the Nobel posturing (Bubblegum!) and the pontificating of the self, keep the outsized ambition, make the damned book even larger. One wonders how the Mailer vacuum went empty this long. This is ambition and large-statement talent. The precision of the errancy is thrilling. This son of a bitch is perfect."
Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever (2010)
Justin Taylor
"This is not quaint blue-collar realism but something entirely more honest. Thers is a debt paid to Donald Barthelme... and a strange undertow of Philip Roth, which makes for a new literrary beast."
Venus Drive (2000)
Sam Lipsyte
"These are torqued-up, enthusiastically black-hearted stories by a grimly cheerful author. And the damned things are queerly rather loving and lovely as well."
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