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Lavish praise.

4/8/2015

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Michael Ray Taylor has written a blush-inducing review of Trampoline for Chapter 16: A Community of Tennessee Writers, Readers, and Passersby. It ends like this: "Trampoline is a truly new sort of novel, one in which the masterful prose and intimate drawings work together to tell a powerful story. In Gipe’s hands, Jewell’s voice is musical and honest, her language and syntax brooking no nonsense and yet capturing the beauty and nuance of mountain life that others around her miss. Trampoline is a new American masterpiece." In response, I would just say thank you, and that it is humbling when people like what you've done better than you do.

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MIchael Ray Taylor
4/9/2015 03:04:51 pm

I have published something over 100 book reviews at this point, and I have to say that this one is, by far, the most gushing I have ever written, and that includes some reviews I wrote for the books of friends, whereas I don't know Robert Gipe from Adam. I kinda jumped out on a limb with it, since so few publications had reviewed Trampoline thus far, and maybe the NY Times and them won't agree with me. But I think maybe they will. I can't remember when I loved a book so much. I had to gush and you had to blush. As Dawn might say, Deal with it.

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6/6/2023 01:58:09 pm

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