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COMING SOON AS A JOYLAND EBOOK FROM ECW PRESS

"Hanas writes a lean and powerful line that makes even absurd situations—a man who cries professionally, a beauty queen leaving her slob boyfriend for an astronaut—seem painfully familiar. WHY THE CRIED answers its own question and the answer is funnier than you think."

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ADVANCE PRAISE

"A tender and smart assembly of fiction about people trying to communicate—with each other, the world—and all the ways they fail. Fail better, fail beautifully."

–Fiona Maazel, author of Last Last Chance

"Jim Hanas has a remarkable talent for imagining and crafting uncanny little worlds that make me vaguely nervous. And yet I never want to leave."

–Rob Walker, co-founder of Significant Objects

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

I am the author of Cassingle: Five Stories (2009) and Single: Two Stories (2006), two e-book collections of short stories that previously appeared in McSweeney's, Fence, One Story, the Land-Grant College Review, Joyland, and elsewhere. My nonfiction and humor pieces, meanwhile, have appeared in Slate, Radar, Print, the New York Daily News, and the New York Post. more

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