“Bruce
Machart’s protagonists know work--whether it’s loading cedar logs into
debarking drums or scouring the sludge from a drill rig’s void
tanks--and they know denial, and self-denial, and compassion, because
they’re mostly good men undone by loss, and by their own resentments and
shortcomings. Men in the Making is a stirring and impressive
collection.”
Jim Shepard, author of You Think That’s Bad
"Benoit
Denizet-Lewis writes with an impressive mix of transparency and
compassion about the addict's eternal battle between will and action. He
sees deep into the sadness of desperate people, and equally deep into
the systems that redeem such sadness. This is an intimate, compelling
volume."
Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Bruce
Machart is the author of the novel The Wake of Forgiveness. His short
stories have appeared in Zoetrope, Story, Glimmer Train, and One Story,
and have been anthologized in The Best Stories of the American West. A
graduate of the MFA program at Ohio State University, Machart is an
assistant professor of English at Bridgewater State University.
Benoit Denizet-Lewis is an award-winning contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. Formerly a senior writer at Boston Magazine and staff writer at the San Francisco Chronicle, his work has also appeared in Sports Illustrated, Details, Slate, Spin, Out, and others. A former Alicia Patterson Fellow, Denizet-Lewis lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
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