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  • Interview with Patty McNair

    This Far Isn’t Far Enough: An Interview with Lynn Sloan03/09/18 We met at a faculty retreat, Lynn Sloan and I, quite a number of years ago. Lynn taught photography at Columbia College Chicago, where I teach creative writing, and I still remember her speaking about the potential for narrative in series of photographs. (I wonder…

  • THIS FAR ISN’T FAR ENOUGH launched at Women & Children First

    Thanks to Women & Children First Bookstore for hosting a spectacular evening for the book launch of my story collection, This Far Isn’t Far Enough. Thanks to the terrific booksellers who made everything flow smoothly, thanks to my friends, old and new, and those I didn’t know, to everyone who came to listen to me read. An…

  • March 03, 2018

    Interviewed by Christine Rice For me, a brilliant piece of writing often shatters what I thought I knew, dumps it out – messy and unrecognizable – before rearranging the pieces in a way that shifts my perception. That perception might be nudged significantly or incrementally but after reading the last page, I almost always see…

  • Interview with Christi Craig

    Letting go is never easy. We are rooted in tradition, in promises, in expectations. And yet, we inevitably reach that moment when the old, the familiar, the safe no longer serves, when we must release whatever anchors us in order to survive. Lynn Sloan’s new collection of stories, This Far Isn’t Far Enough, is full of characters faced…

  • Books, Personally reviews THIS FAR ISN’T FAR ENOUGH

    Grief is not the exclusive province of death and dying in Lynn Sloan’s poignant short story collection This Far Isn’t Far Enough. Rather, we experience loss, deeply, in the many ordinary gaps and failures of our lives, over and over again.To read this review click:

  • Book Launch at Women & Children First

    Event date: Friday, March 2, 7:30 pm Event address: Women & Children First5233 North Clark Street Chicago, IL 60640 ​

  • Small Press Picks reviews THIS FAR ISN’T FAR ENOUGH

    One of the fiction-writing super powers I admire most is the ability to inhabit a wide range of characters and worlds, and to write about each of them with great empathy and understanding. In her story collection This Far Isn’t Far Enough, Lynn Sloan shows a special gift in this regard. She immerses us in the…

  • Windy City Reviews on THIS FAR ISN’T FAR ENOUGH

    I am grateful to Hallie Koontz for her in-depth and generous review. (This review is no longer available online.)

  • Story Circle Reviews THIS FAR ISN’T FAR ENOUGH

    I am thrilled with Susan Schoch’s generous review of This Far Isn’t Far Enough that appeared on StoryCircle.org on January 2018. The review is no longer available online, but here is an excerpt. “Sloan uses the language with care and creativity. In the small worlds created by the limits of short fiction, This Far Isn’t Far Enough…

  • Compulsive Reader previews THIS FAR ISN’T FAR ENOUGH

    A review of This Far Isn’t Far Enough by Lynn Sloan January 4, 2018 Reviewed by Ruth Latta This Far Isn’t Far Enoughby Lynn SloanFomite PressFeb 2018, ISBN 9781944388294 Internationally-known fine art photographer, Lynn Sloan, is also an accomplished writer. The fourteen short stories in her first collection, This Far Isn’t Far Enough, have all been…