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Collin Blair Grabarek lives in Virginia with his wife and son. He received an MFA in fiction writing from George Mason University in 2011. His work has appeared in publications such as Unstuck and A cappella Zoo. His novella, “The Screw That Holds the World Together,” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Read Collin’s Work Here

“Old Myths”

“Speak One Way”

“The Screw That Holds the World Together”

“The Third Cosmic Crisis, As I Recall It”

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“Theodore Roosevelt Would Have Liked to Be Rescued”

Collin’s Picks

The Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick

Point Omega by Don DeLillo

Her Body & Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

Notes

• Bruno Schulz
• The Messiah
• The Man in High Castle by Philip K. Dick
• Fuckin’ CBS All Access
• The Good Fight
• 24 Hour Psycho
• Hirshhorn
• Pepper the Robot
• “Big Man” by Ron Mueck
• What Absence Is Made Of
• Richard Bachman
• “Especially Heinous” by Carmen Maria Machado
• Tired of The Walking Dead? Try Santa Clarita Diet.
• Marisha Pessl
• Helon Habila
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
• Where are all the female magicians?
• The Carbonaro Effect
• Fruits of a great writing group: The City of Good Death (forthcoming from Restless Books) by Priyanka A. Champaneri; “When the Aged Are Reverently, Passionately Waiting” by Elizabeth Eshelman; Elizabeth MacBride

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