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Danielle Mckinney, Hold Your Breath (detail), featured in AGNI 103

New Slave, Old Master

Fiction from AGNI 52 by Madison Smartt Bell
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Madison Smartt Bell

Madison Smartt Bell is the author of thirteen novels, including The Stone That the Builder Refused (Vintage, 2006) and most recently, Devil’s Dream (Pantheon, 2009). The recipient of the 1996 Anisfield-Wolf award and the 2008 Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he currently teaches English in the Goucher College Creative Program. (updated 6/2010)

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