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Real Name

Eric Barnes

About Me

Eric Barnes of is the author of the novels Above the Ether from Arcade Publishing, The City Where We Once Lived from Arcade Publishing, Something Pretty, Something Beautiful from Outpost19, and Shimmer, an IndieNext Pick from Unbridled Books. He has published more than 30 short stories in journals such as Prairie Schooner, The Literary Review and Best American Mystery Stories.

Above the Ether: "Barnes’ spare and chilling prose flows from one horrific scene to another without, surprisingly, alienating his readers, perhaps because the heart of his narrative ultimately reveals an abiding faith in the power of human compassion. A first-rate apocalyptic page-turner." - Booklist

The City Where We Once Lived: “Barnes's new novel is a rare and truly original work: a hard-edged fable, tender and unflinching, in which a man's descent and renewal is mirrored by his city. An eerie, beautifully written, and profoundly humane book.” - Emily St. John Mandel, author of STATION ELEVEN

Something Pretty, Something Beautiful: "Elegantly constructed and lovingly, tenderly, savagely written...the most harrowing portrait of American boys careening into manhood that I've ever read. And the truest." - Benjamin Whitmer

Location

Memphis

Homepage

http://www.ericbarnes.net

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Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy by Lindsay Moran

The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire by C. M. Mayo

Madewell Brown by Rick Collignon

The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Best American Mystery Stories 2011 (Best American (TM)) by Harlan Coben

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