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Podcast: Michael Downs on His Debut Novel

Podcast: Michael Downs on His Debut Novel

The story of the doctor who discovered painless surgery was possible. LISTEN to Michael Downs discuss his new novel, The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist, on Baltimore’s NPR news station.

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An Interview with Michael Downs

An Interview with Michael Downs

What’s it like to be haunted by a historical figure? To have the past become your present? To ponder pain for a decade? Learn this and more in Michael Downs’s terrific first INTERVIEW regarding THE STRANGE AND TRUE TALE OF HORACE WELLS, SURGEON DENTIST: A...

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Acre’s Bestselling Books!

Acre’s Bestselling Books!

We made the list! Actually, the lists—Small Press Distribution’s bestseller lists. Congrats to T. R. Hummer, whose AFTER THE AFTERLIFE is a poetry bestseller, and to Jenn Scott, whose HER ADULT LIFE is hitting it in fiction!

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Interview with Jenn Scott

Interview with Jenn Scott

Nicola Mason, Editor of Acre Books, interviews Jenn Scott, author of Her Adult LifeNicola Mason: Some might characterize the stories in Her Adult Life as grim, yet I find them hopeful, largely because characters who are trapped, either by mindset or circumstance or...

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Poetry Daily features “Glass Ceiling”

Poetry Daily features “Glass Ceiling”

XXXXT. R. Hummer’s “Glass Ceiling,” from his new volume After the Afterlife, nabs a feature spot on Poetry Daily. The collection, just released, is available through SPD, Amazon, and oh so many other places. E-books can be purchased on Acre’s website.

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And the Donald Justice Award goes to . . .

And the Donald Justice Award goes to . . .

T. R. Hummer, author of After the Afterlife (his twelfth collection), due out officially in January, though in light of the prize we’ve stepped up production and will have books in hand next month. Preorder your copy on Amazon today!

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Heraclitus and Hummer: An Interview

Heraclitus and Hummer: An Interview

Double Blind InterviewBy prior arrangement, I met the poet T. R. Hummer at a place where three roads converged in a yellow wood midway in life’s journey. On the cusp of publishing his twelfth book of poetry, After the Afterlife, he was feeling cocky, and so he was...

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