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Author: Aaron Burch

Aaron Burch is the Founding Editor of Hobart (and, more recently, its spinoff journals, HAD and WAS) and the author of Backswing, a story collection, and Stephen King's The Body, a nonfiction book about the novella that was the basis for Stand By Me. He currently teaches Writing at the University of Michigan. His first novel, YEAR OF THE BUFFALO, will be released in Fall 2022.
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06/06/2022

A Good Idea

A deer caught in a fence

by Aaron Burch

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04/22/2019

Name Your God

On Alice in Chains, Christian camps, and Satanism

by Aaron Burch

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