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Megan Hunter: The shadow side

Megan Hunter’s second novel The Harpy is a dark and dazzling tale of pent-up rage and revenge festering beneath a veneer of everyday domesticity. Mother-of-two Lucy Stevenson’s life is upended by a phone call from a man who informs her his wife is having an affair with her husband Jake. They agree to stay together and he will end the affair in order to preserve their family unit, but on the proviso that she will ‘hurt’ him three times when he least expects it – whether physically or psychologically. Their marriage becomes a precarious game of cat-and-mouse, as Lucy becomes possessed by a rapacious mythological spirit that haunted her troubled childhood.

MR: Lucy recalls a book she knew as a child about a unicorn who became a narwhal and was tormented by harpies. Is this book real or invented?

MH: It’s based on (but not strictly limited to) a real book, an out-of-print children’s book called The Unicorn and the Sea by Fiona Moodie. I found it in a second-hand bookshop around the time I was writing the book – by coincidence it featu

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In my sophomore year of college, I took a class called The Jewish American Novel. I was hoping it would acquaint me with a culture I’d spent much of my youth trying to deny. I grew up in a town in Illinois, where, on the playground, appearing exactly the same as everyone else was a matter of social survival. This was not Jesse Jackson’s Hymietown; this was the United States. We studied the greats in that class, Bellow and Roth, the red-brick Brooklyn of Delmore Schwartz, the Molochs of Allen Ginsberg. Most of the classic types were represented: the worriers and clowns, the big thinkers and survivors. But left out was the sort of Jew that mattered most to me, the Jew who’s trying to pass.

James Salter changed his name from Horowitz for the same reason the Turks renamed Constantinople: He liked it better that way. His career, which began with spare war stories in the mid-1950s, has culminated, just now, with his magnum opus, All That Is, an autumnal novel that caps a stunning body of work. More than any other artist’s, Salter’s career, intentionally or not, has perfectly desc

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John Bascom is the author of "Beneath a Hunter's Sky", a collection of his short fiction about hunting, fishing, and coming of age, released in 2015. He previously wrote "Caine's Pestilence" in 2010, a novel of political satire and biotech intrigue. It serves as a commentary on our modern political scene through entertaining fiction. Both are available on Amazon. Bascom is retired from the corporate world and lives in rural northern Michigan with wife, Nickie, where he writes, teaches and consults. He holds degrees in Economics and Finance, spent thirty-five years in banking and eleven in health care governance. In his free time, Bascom is an outdoors enthusiast, (poor) golfer, private airplane pilot and rides a Harley. He has hunted dangerous game in Africa and Alaska. Other than that he is more-or-less normal. If you're interested in learning more, look up Bascom on LinkedIn, Facebook or visit www.cainespestilence.com

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