LW12: Joseph Earl Thomas

National Guard veteran and award-winning author Joseph Earl Thomas sits down with the LitWar Podcast to discuss his memoir SINK as well as his new novel GOD BLESS YOU OTIS SPUNKMEYER which is out this week from Grand Central Publishing.

 

Joseph Earl Thomas is a writer from Frankford whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in VQR, N+1, Gulf Coast, The Offing, and The Kenyon Review. He has an MFA in prose from The University of Notre Dame and is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania. An excerpt of his memoir, Sink, won the 2020 Chautauqua Janus Prize and he has received fellowships from Fulbright, VONA, Tin House, and Bread Loaf. He’s writing the novel God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer, and a collection of stories, Leviathan Beach, among other oddities.

 

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