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Guest Post, by Barry Graham: A Sentence About a Sentence I Love

  • John Madera
    • “At the tedious party of relative difference, no one wants to sit near me.”
    Joe Wenderoth from Letters to Wendy’s
    Joe man, the letters are brilliant, but your loneliness, your vulnerability, here just sounds like desperation.

    Barry Graham is the author of The National Virginity Pledge: Short Stories and Other Lies.

    • John Madera is the author of Nervosities (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2024) and Nomad Science (Spuyten Duyvil Press, forthcoming in 2026).  His  fiction is also published in Conjunctions, Salt Hill, Hobart, The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, and many other journals. His poetry is also published in elimae, Sixth Finch, Contrapuntos, and elsewhere. His criticism is published in American Book Review, Bookforum, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Rain Taxi: Review of Books, The Believer, The Brooklyn Rail, and many other venues. Recipient of an M.F.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University, two-time New York State Council on the Arts awardee John Madera lives in New York City, where he runs Rhizomatic and manages and edits Big Other.

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