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    David Means: Assorted Fire Events

    David Means, the young winner of the Los Angeles Times Fiction Award discusses his interest in redemption, an impulse that transforms his tightly calibrated realistic fiction into a moral tightrope-walk.

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    By Michael Silverblatt • Nov 15, 2001 • 30m Listen

    Assorted Fire Events(Context Books)

    David Means, the young winner of the Los Angeles Times Fiction Award discusses his interest in redemption, an impulse that transforms his tightly calibrated realistic fiction into a moral tightrope-walk.

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