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Glory Goes and Gets Some Chosen for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program

(Minneapolis, August 15, 2000) Glory Goes and Gets Some, a linked short story collection by Emily Carter, has been chosen for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program.

How is a woman in her thirties, HIV-positive and fresh out of rehab, supposed to find love and work in contemporary urban America, steering clear of self-pity and doctrinaire "happy-talk"? According to Publishers Weekly, Glory Goes and Gets Some has "an intense, edgy, boldly candid, and irrepressibly sardonic voice, mainly narrated by Gloria Bronski. . . . Glory is one of those characters who grab hold of your elbow and pour out their heart in nonstop talk." From her addictions to heroin and alcohol in New York through her unlikely, tenuous yet rewarding alliances with the full range of treatment mavens in the midwest, Glory gives us an uncensored and irreverent account of her experiences in twelve-step recovery-a process that for all its faults, ultimately works for her. Glory Goes and Gets Some is a streetwise look at sex, HIV, addiction, and recovery.

The Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program appears quarterly in over 500 Barnes & Noble, Bookstop, and Bookstar bookstores. The titles are selected by an in-house reading group of twelve people who choose approximately twenty titles for the program. The purpose of Discover Great New Writers is to bring new literary authors to the attention of a larger audience, helping these writers to reach readers they might otherwise not find. The Discover Award was established in 1993 to celebrate the work of a first-time novelist whose work has appeared in the Discover Great New Writers program during the year. The award carries a cash prize of $10,000 and the winner is brought to New York for a formal ceremony. Sandra Ben’tez, author of A Place Where the Sea Remembers, published in cloth by Coffee House Press, was the very first winner of the Discover Award in 1993. Also by Coffee House, Our Sometime Sister, by Norah Labiner was a finalist for the 1998 Discover Award.

Emily Carter’s work has received many awards and fellowships, including the Loft/McKnight Award, a Bush Grant, and a National Magazine Award. Her writing has appeared in Story Magazine, Gathering of the Tribes, Between C & D, Artforum, Open City, Great River Review, and Poz Magazine. Glory Goes and Gets Some features stories that were originally published in The New Yorker, and the title story was selected by Garrison Keillor for The Best American Short Stories 1998.

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