On placing his characters on a stretch of land in “Coming of Age With a Dog Named Marianne Moore” in the Chicago Review of Books (2018 Jun 1)
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The setting, with all of its contradictions, is crucial. The land provides a deceptive promise of freedom, yet also presents itself as a burden. I’m drawn to these contradictions. They feed the emotional intensity of the novel…
— Jon Pineda
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