Issue 3 of Assignment Magazine launches on May 16

Hooksett, NH, May 03, 2017 -- Manchester, NH:  Assignment Magazine, the literary journal of the the Mountainview MFA low-residency program, launches issue three on May 16. Included in this issue: fiction by Amie Barrodale, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Christine Smallwood, and MFA Student Contest Winner, David Moloney. Plus, David Moloney interviews his mentor, Andre Dubus III.

Amie Barrodale is the author os You Are Having a Good Time, a collection of highly compressed and charged tales in which the veneer of normality is stripped from the characters’ lives to reveal the seething and contradictory desires that fuel them.

The Moscow-born Lyudmila Petrushevskaya is regarded as one of Russia's most prominent contemporary writers, whose writing combines postmodernist trends with the psychological insights and parodic touches of writers such as Anton Chekhov. Over the last few decades, she has been one of the most acclaimed contemporary writers at work in Eastern Europe; Publishers Weekly has called her "one of the finest living Russian writers”.

Christine Smallwood holds a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. Her reviews and essays have been published in The New Yorker, Bookforum, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, and Harper’s Magazine, where she writes the monthly “New Books” column. Her fiction has been published in The Paris Review, n+1, and Vice. 

Andre Dubus III is an American novelist and short story writer. He is a member of the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Dubus' work has been included in The Best American Essays 1994, The Best Spiritual Writing 1999, and The Best of Hope Magazine. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Magazine Award for fiction, and the Pushcart Prize. He was a finalist for the Rome Prize awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Dubus's novel House of Sand and Fog was a fiction finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Booksense Book of the Year. It was an Oprah Book Club selection and headed the New York Times bestseller list. It has been published in twenty languages and the 2003 film adaptation directed by Vadim Perelman was nominated for an Academy Award.

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Ben Nugent
Southern New Hampshire University 
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