Joan Leegant is the author of the novel Wherever You Go and the story collection An Hour in Paradise. Her collection Displaced Persons: Stories won the 2022 New American Fiction Prize and will be published in May 2024 by New American Press.
Joan Leegant
By Joan Leegant
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It’s a warm October afternoon, and 11 of us are in an airy classroom on the third floor of a university high-rise, talking about a draft of a short story. The writer, a 30-something journalist with a New York accent, quietly takes notes. The prose is strong, we say, the premise promising: a newly discharged…
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