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October 21, 2009 • KR Blog • KR

Carl Phillips and Bonnie Jo Campbell

By Tyler Meier

Two books with work that originally appeared in KR have been selected as finalists for the 2009 National Book Awards:

Bonnie Jo Campbell’s “Boar Taint” appeared in the Summer 08 issue of KR. That story is the last in her finalist collection American Salvage. You can read an interview about the story with Bonnie Jo and KR‘s fiction editor Geeta Kothari here.

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Carl Phillips originally published the poem “Conquest” in the Winter 09 issue of KR. That poem is reprinted in his finalist collection, Speak Low. Read an interview that discusses “Conquest” and other topics with Carl and KR‘s poetry editor David Baker, here.

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Congrats to both!

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