The market environment was tougher than we expected. The console transition came on sooner and harder than we expected.

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I felt really alone there.

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North Dakota's is sort of a different pace.

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Bellow is a very important writer for me, and the summer I spent reading him in Germany sparked my desire to dabble in fiction myself. So I'm especially excited to be recognized for my tribute to the late, great Mr. B.

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I'm delighted of course. The award is all the more meaningful to me because I worked at The Southern Review for so long, and it's a journal that meant and means a lot to me.

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But it will end up, technically, the same way. One way or another, the legislature will decide what happens.

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Bellow was my lifeline, my link to home.

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