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jerrygabriel.net News 6 May 2008 I received word yesterday that Andrea Barrett, the author of many great books, including Ship Fever, The Voyage of the Narwal, and, most recently, The Air We Breathe, chose my story collection, Drowned Boy, for the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. It will be published by Sarabande Books in the fall of 2009. I'm going to say that again. My first book is coming out. And Andrea Barrett chose it. Okay. In other publishing news, my story "Atlas" will be appearing in Epoch in November of 2008. Finally, Issue Three of Scope is live. Scope Four should be up by late June. 27 September 2007 Here's a new story I wrote over the summer to round out my collection. Plagiarized it, really, from thrown-away scraps of my novel, but whatever. It's called "Atlas," and it's about a band of hippies camped in a municipal park in southern Ohio and the effect of this act on the family of my protagonist, Nate Holland. On the subject of the novel, one word: reconstruction. I'm going to leave up the old Chapter One for now, but mostly because I don't yet have a polished version of the new Chapter One. Also, Issue Two of Scope is up and running (more or less). Issue Three should be coming in November. 28 January 2007 I've completed a draft of my first novel, Resurrecting the Single Wing. You can read the first chapter here. 22 January 2007 Lately I've been working with my colleage Jay Winston and prisoners at New York's Auburn Correctional Facility to put together an online magazine of writing by prisoners. It's called Scope and we've had a soft launch of Issue One. The guys on the inside have worked very hard to make it happen. Please check it out. We've also gotten some important assistance from some Cornell undergrads. The next issue will likely come out sometime early in the spring. * In related news, here's a piece the Ithaca Times did in fall 2006 about the Cornell at Auburn program.