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Peter Orner

Peter Orner is the author of Esther Stories, Love and Shame and Love, and The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His most recent novel, Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge, was published in 2013.

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In Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition

Peter Orner | Interview

Peter Orner & Ted Hodgkinson

‘For me the strange moments that make up our lives are plot.’

Fiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition

At The Kitchen Table

Peter Orner

‘Your husband dies, you’re a widow. There’s almost joy in it. Why not scream it? Glory.’

Fiction | Issue 111 padlock
Fiction | Issue 111 padlock

Dyke Bridge

Peter Orner

‘My brother and I in the knee-deep water, standing in the tidal current, under Dyke Bridge.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 111
Essays & Memoir | Issue 111

Walker Brothers

Peter Orner

‘When Allen Dorfman was gunned down in the parking lot of the purple Hyatt in Lincolnwood, my grandfather took great pride in the fact that one of our own was still high enough in the mob to rub out.’

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