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Michael Downs on His Debut Novel

Michael Downs on His Debut Novel

Michael Downs, author of the newly released Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist, answers a few questions about his ambitious, sweeping debut novel, centered on the modest, scientifically-minded man who changed the world by discovering that nitrous...

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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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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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