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Tore All to Pieces was the first title I gave this novel. Then I worried it wasn’t à la mode, and for a brief moment I renamed it Held by Fire and Flood. That title felt more fashionable. But the original kept resurfacing symbolically in the text as the characters showed me who they were. Tore All to Pieces is a key. It tells the reader, over and over again, in recursive patterns, across many lives, in many time periods, what it means to be whole.
What's in a name?
Last names matter a great deal in eastern Kentucky. I populated...[read on]
Q&A with Willie Edward Taylor Carver, Jr.
--Marshal Zeringue
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