Peter Chilson
Author of Riding the Demon: On the Road in West Africa
About the Author
Peter Chilson teaches writing and literature at Washington State University. He is also the author of We Never Knew Exactly Where: Dispatches From the Lost Country of Mali and Disturbance-Loving Species: A Novella and Stories, winner of the Bakeless Fiction Prize and the Maria Thomas Fiction Prize. show more His writings, which have appeared in such publications as Foreign Policy, American Scholar, Gulf Coast, High Country News, Audubon, and Ascent, have also been included in two Best American Travel Writing anthologies. show less
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- Birthdate
- 1961-07-03
- Gender
- male
- Birthplace
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Education
- Pennsylvania State University
Syracuse University BA - Occupations
- journalist
professor - Organizations
- Associated Press
High Country News
Washington State University
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Interesting book that was quite obviously written by a teacher. I once took a creative writing class and I felt like I was taking the class again as I read the book. Too many unnecessary metaphors, too redundant, and 178 pages that felt like I should have learned a lot more than I did. Still, interesting little read.
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- Rating
- 3.6
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- 8
I didn't find the stories to be incredibly engaging, nor the characters very intriguing or well-developed. Many of the descriptions of African culture seemed over-generalized and didn't really illustrate the complicated nature of cross-cultural interactions.
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