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Train Dreams, the Glossary

Train Dreams is a novella by Denis Johnson.^[1]

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Novels about rail transport
Novels by Denis Johnson
Novels set in British Columbia
Novels set in Idaho
Novels set in Montana
Novels set in Washington (state)
Works originally published in The Paris Review

Aga Khan Prize for Fiction

The Aga Khan Prize for Fiction was awarded by the editors of The Paris Review for what they deem to be the best short story published in the magazine in a given year.

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Alan Warner (novelist)

Alan Warner (born 1964) is a Scottish novelist who grew up in Connel, near Oban.

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Anthony Doerr

Anthony Doerr is an American author of novels and short stories.

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Biplane

A biplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with two main wings stacked one above the other.

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Bonners Ferry, Idaho

Bonners Ferry (Kutenai language: ʔaq̓anqmi) is the larger city in and the county seat of Boundary County, Idaho, United States.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.; July 20, 1933 – June 13, 2023) was an American writer who authored twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories, spanning the Western and postapocalyptic genres.

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Denis Johnson

Denis Hale Johnson (July 1, 1949 – May 24, 2017) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet.

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Eileen Battersby

Eileen Battersby (Whiston; 4 June 1956 – 23 December 2018) was the chief literary critic of The Irish Times.

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Electric Literature

Electric Literature is an American literary magazine.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), known mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor.

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger Williams Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar.

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Flannery O'Connor

Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925August 3, 1964) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist.

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Free indirect speech

Free indirect speech is a literary term that refers to writing a character's first-person thoughts in the voice of the third-person narrator.

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Great Northern Railway (U.S.)

The Great Northern Railway was an American Class I railroad.

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Hardcover

A hardcover, hard cover, or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as casebound (At p. 247.)) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occasionally leather).

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Historical fiction

Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events.

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Idaho

Idaho is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Idaho panhandle

The Idaho panhandle—locally known as North Idaho, Northern Idaho, or simply the Panhandle—is a salient region of the U.S. state of Idaho encompassing the state's 10 northernmost counties: Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Clearwater, Idaho, Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, and Shoshone (though the southern part of the region is sometimes referred to as North Central Idaho).

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James Wood (critic)

James Douglas Graham Wood (born 1 November 1965) is an English literary critic, essayist and novelist.

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Jesus' Son (short story collection)

Jesus' Son is a collection of short fiction by Denis Johnson published in 1992 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

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Kootenai Tribe of Idaho

The Kootenai Tribe of Idaho (Kutenai language: ʔaq̓anqmiFirst Voices—Ktunaxa Home Page: About Us) is a federally recognized tribe of Lower Kootenai people.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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O. Henry Award

The O. Henry Award is an annual American award given to short stories of exceptional merit.

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Paperback

A paperback (softcover, softback) book is one with a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with glue rather than stitches or staples.

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Ploughshares is an American literary journal established in 1971 by DeWitt Henry and Peter O'Malley in The Plough and Stars, an Irish pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly (PW) is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prizes are two dozen annual awards given by Columbia University in New York for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters." They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher.

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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Sarsaparilla (drink)

Sarsaparilla is a soft drink originally made from the vine Smilax ornata (also called 'sarsaparilla') or other species of Smilax such as Smilax officinalis.

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Sentence (linguistics)

In linguistics and grammar, a sentence is a linguistic expression, such as the English example "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." In traditional grammar, it is typically defined as a string of words that expresses a complete thought, or as a unit consisting of a subject and predicate.

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Simpson Investment Company

The Simpson Investment Company is a company based in McCleary, Washington in the US Pacific Northwest that specializes in manufacture of forest products.

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Slant Magazine

Slant Magazine is an American online publication that features reviews of movies, music, TV, DVDs, theater, and video games, as well as interviews with actors, directors, and musicians.

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Spokane International Railroad

The Spokane International Railroad was a short line railroad between Spokane, Washington, and the Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) at Kingsgate, British Columbia.

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Spokane, Washington

Spokane is the most populous city in and the county seat of Spokane County, Washington, United States.

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The Arts Fuse

The Arts Fuse is an online arts magazine covering cultural events in Greater Boston, as well as Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, and New York.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Irish Times

The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper and online digital publication.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The New York Times Book Review

The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Paris Review

The Paris Review is a quarterly English-language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton.

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Troy, Montana

Troy is a city in Lincoln County, Montana, United States.

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Utah

Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.

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Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is the westernmost state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Widowmaker (forestry)

In forestry, a widowmaker or fool killer is a detached or broken limb or tree top.

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Will Patton

William Rankin Patton (born June 14, 1954) is an American actor and audiobook narrator.

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William Faulkner

William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life.

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The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) is the website of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI).

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