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Sep 2015
35m 47s

Liz Prato : Baby’s On Fire

David Naimon, Tin House Books
About this episode

“Liz Prato’s stories are filled with the lost, the lonely, and the damned, and she makes all of them sing with a haunting grandeur. Baby’s on Fire is a lamentation brimming with wit, candor, and the eternal possibility of mercy,” says writer Steve Almond about Liz Prato’s debut collection of stories.

“The stories are at once beautifully written and tremendously compelling—not to mention filled with characters so full of life that they feel as real as people we know. A knockout collection.”—Molly Antopol

Liz is a fiction writer and essayist, teacher and editor, in Portland, Oregon.

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