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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

~ Writing from the Edge of the Wild

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Tag Archives: book review

My Lately: Book Launch, Reviews, & Backyard Bliss

August 25, 2025

Things have been crazy around here this summer, getting ready to launch my debut novel, as well as visits with …

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Five Debut Novels Worth Sampling

August 12, 2018

I’ve been putting together a reading list of recently published debut novels that have been making a splash in the …

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Shogun VS. Lincoln in the Bardo

February 12, 2018

I have two books on my nightstand, Shogun by James Clavell and Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders. Both …

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Good Prose and Good Science — Quibbling with the Masters

January 18, 2015

At first Steven Pinker was my new hero. Within the first few pages of reading his widely acclaimed “The Sense …

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After sailing around the world in a small boat for six years, I came to appreciate how tiny and insignificant we humans appear in our natural and untamed surroundings, living always on the edge of the wild, into which we are embedded even while being that thing which sets us apart. Now living again on the edge of the wild in a home that borders a nature preserve, I am re-exploring what it means to be human in a more than human world.

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