Author of The Displacements: A Novel Links Bruce Holsinger’s web site Other novels by Bruce Holsinger: A Burnable Book The Invention of Fire The Gifted School The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing by Mark McGurl A Children’s Bible: A Novel by Lydia Millet Appleseed by Matt Bell How High We Go in the Dark: A Novel by Sequoia Nagamatsu How Beautiful We Were: A Novel by Imbolo Mbue Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh If you’d like brief updates on technology, books, marriage, and puppies, you can follow along with my Morning Journal flash briefing. tFrom your Echo device, just say, “Alexa, enable Morning Journal.” Then each morning say, “Alexa, what’s my flash briefing?” I post a five-minute audio journal each weekday except usually by 8 a.m. Eastern Time.  Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.