Serial monogamy: don’t be married to your first novel. Be married to the first, second…
Author: vrflash
Mark Budman is a first-generation immigrant. An engineer by training, he currently works as a medical interpreter. His fiction has appeared in Catapult, Witness, World Literature Today, Mississippi Review, The London Magazine (UK), McSweeney’s, Painted Bride Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is the author of the novel “My Life at First Try,” published by Counterpoint, and co-editor of immigration-themed anthologies published by Ooligan Press, Persea, and the University of Chester (UK). One of his short story collections from Livingstone Press received a starred review at Kirkus and another is currently a finalist of Forward Indies 2022 Award.
Condensed to Flash: World Classics
The Vestal Review Press is pleased to present the newly expanded edition of Condensed to…
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