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Spring 2008 • Vol. XXX No. 2 • Nonfiction |

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By Brian Doyle

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Brian Doyle is the muddled maundering mumbling muttering shuffling shambling humming editor of Portland Magazine, in Oregon. He is the author of many books of essays and fiction, among them the sprawling Oegon novel Mink River. His new "whopping sea novel" The Plover will be published in April 2014 by St Martin's Press.

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