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Making a Case for Comic Fiction

February 3, 2004
Mameve Medwed fiction writer
Tom Perrotta fiction writer
Stephen McCauley fiction writer

Mameve Medwed, Tom Perrotta, and Stephen McCauley explain and defend comic fiction.

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Boston Athenaeum
Image of How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life
Author: Mameve Medwed
Publisher: Avon A (2007)
Binding: Paperback, 352 pages
Image of Of Men and Their Mothers
Author: Mameve Medwed
Publisher: Avon A (2009)
Binding: Paperback, 304 pages
Image of The End of an Error
Author: Mameve Medwed
Publisher: Avon A (2008)
Binding: Paperback, 400 pages
Image of Host Family
Author: Mameve Medwed
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (2001)
Binding: Paperback, 320 pages
Image of Mail
Author: Mameve Medwed
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (1998)
Binding: Paperback, 320 pages
Image of The Abstinence Teacher (Reading Group Gold)
Author: Tom Perrotta
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (2008)
Binding: Paperback, 384 pages
Image of The Wishbones
Author: Tom Perrotta
Publisher: Berkley Trade (1998)
Binding: Paperback, 304 pages
Image of Alternatives to Sex: A Novel
Author: Stephen McCauley
Publisher: Washington Square Press (2007)
Binding: Paperback, 304 pages
Image of True Enough
Author: Stephen McCauley
Publisher: Washington Square Press (2002)
Binding: Paperback, 320 pages
Image of The Man of the House
Author: Stephen McCauley
Publisher: Washington Square Press (1996)
Binding: Paperback, 288 pages