Brian Van Reet


“Big Two-Hearted Hunting Creek”

Received a Pushcart Prize Special Mention. First published in The Southern Review Vol. 45 #3. Anthologized in Fire and Forget.

From The Daily Beast’s review of Fire and Forget:

This is fiction as good as any you’ll read anywhere: take for example “Big Two-Hearted Hunting Creek” in which a vet with a major burn wound (“faceless” in more ways than one) seeks the same kind of solace that Hemingway’s Nick Adams found in his river, but sees the excursion quickly degenerate into a squadmate’s macabre show of PTSD. Like all of these stories, it works well as a piece of fiction but even better as a piece of reality. These pages contain a record of the cost of our excursions abroad that is as illustrative as any culture can produce.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/11/this-week-s-hot-reads-february-11-2013.html


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