![]() ![]() In a literary landscape where stand-offish can be repackaged as "stylish" and empty shock value can be re-branded as "raw", Simon Van Booy's writing as well as his personality seem to be transported from a different time. I think I agree with Catlett on this point. In a recent issue of Iowa City mainstay culture magazine Little Village, staff writer Stephanie Catlett brilliantly articulated my thoughts on Simon VanBooy, a novelist I'd seen read from his previous novel Everything Beautiful Began After when I started working at Prairie Lights two years ago: "Van Booy is an unapologetically romantic writer, which is refreshing in a literary landscape that often shuns the sentimental in favor of the graphically, violently 'real.' " ![]() Listen: Simon Van Booy and Lucan Hunt reading | June 6, 2013 ![]()
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