![]() My girlfriend at the time lived in Chicago, which is only about three hours away from Iowa City, and so I was in Chicago all the time. Q: How did the idea of Bruno and of this book emerge?Ī: I started writing the book when I was in graduate school at the University of Iowa. Hale, 28, spoke recently by phone from his home in New York City about researching and writing his debut novel. ![]() The prize comes with a $30,000 stipend and requires him to meet informally with students and give one public reading. In spring 2012 Hale will be in writer-in-residence at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson for one semester as the recipient of this year's Bard Fiction Prize. The desire to learn who winds up killing and why, as well as to hear all the other details of his astonishing life make this easily the fastest 592 pages I've ever read. ![]()
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