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Polite Southern Society

Maddie Dawson at Guilford Station in Guilford, Connecticut

August is Summer Reading Month in Daily Nutmeg, and Maddie Dawson is this week’s featured author. Please enjoy this excerpt from Dawson’s latest novel, Matchmaking for Beginners.

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Holding On to All That Hope

Maddie Dawson at Jacobs Beach in Guilford, Connecticut

August is Summer Reading Month in Daily Nutmeg, and Maddie Dawson is this week’s featured author. Please enjoy this excerpt from Dawson’s 2016 novel, The Survivor’s Guide to Family Happiness.

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Armageddon-Style

Sandi Shelton, a.k.a. Maddie Dawson, in Rollwood Park in Guilford, CT

August is Summer Reading Month in Daily Nutmeg, and Maddie Dawson is this week’s featured author. Please enjoy this excerpt from Dawson’s 2010 novel, The Stuff That Never Happened.

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A Wide, Trackless Space

John Crowley in Conway, Massachusetts

August is Daily Nutmeg’s Summer Reading Month, and John Crowley is this week’s featured author. Please enjoy this excerpt from the prologue to Crowley’s latest novel, Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr (2017).

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Some Unsuspected Mercy

John Crowley in Conway, Massachusetts

August is Daily Nutmeg’s Summer Reading Month, and John Crowley is this week’s featured author. Please enjoy this excerpt from the prologue to Crowley’s latest novel, Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr (2017).

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Piled with Unswallowed Stuff

John Crowley in Conway, Massachusetts

August is Daily Nutmeg’s Summer Reading Month, and John Crowley is this week’s featured author. Please enjoy this excerpt from the prologue to Crowley’s latest novel, Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr (2017).

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How All Those Decisions Added Up

Brian Francis Slattery outside Skull and Bones

August is Summer Reading Month in Daily Nutmeg. Please enjoy this excerpt from Brian Francis Slattery’s contribution to Bookburners (2017).

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A Dim Flame in Dark Woods

Brian Francis Slattery in the Mill River

August is Summer Reading Month in Daily Nutmeg. Please enjoy this excerpt from Brian Francis Slattery’s Lost Everything (2012).

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When Someone Goes

Brian Francis Slattery in Fair Haven

August is Summer Reading Month in Daily Nutmeg. Please enjoy this excerpt from Brian Francis Slattery’s Spaceman Blues: A Love Song (2007).

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Flying, Under the Radar

Brian Francis Slattery

Beneath a smoky sky in Hamden, a Disney-like scene played out in writer Brian Francis Slattery’s small backyard, with squat little sparrows, bushy-tailed squirrels and a sleek, pretty blue jay politely sharing a feeder. …

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