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Bulletproof Girl Featured on UNC-TV Literary Series!
Author Quinn Dalton Shares Her New Anthology of Stories
On North Carolina Bookwatch, Sunday, August 28, at 5 PM

In Bulletproof Girl, Author Quinn Dalton offers eleven raw and witty stories full of a rich mix of women's voices.  The story "Dinner at Josette's" explores the nature of female friendships through the eyes of a woman whose best friend is in love with a gay man. "Midnight Bowling" follows seventeen-year-old Tess as she escapes her fanatically religious mother's vision and her dead father's legacy. In "Lennie Remembers the Angels," a woman confronts a distant vision as she recovers from an accident. In "Graceland," a once supportive businessman's wife turns to murder. And in "How to Clean Your Apartment," a jilted lover creates a spring cleaning reference guide as she tries to get over her man.

On the upcoming episode of UNC-TV's literary series North Carolina Bookwatch, Sunday, August 28, at 5 PM, Quinn Dalton shares her dynamic anthology Bulletproof Girl -at times tragic and savagely funny- with series host DG Martin.

Following the success of Dalton's 2004 debut novel High Strung, her all-new short story collection may reveal the Greensboro author's best work yet.

 "I really consider myself a short story writer," admits Dalton. "Collections of short stories are my favorite things to read and writing short stories is really where I think my strengths are right now in my career."

For Dalton, a strong new voice in fiction, the strength of her diverse narratives is in their high stakes look into the stressful, secret lives of regular women.

"I think you have to put a character under stress-if they're not in stress and you are not telling the most important story of their lives, then you need to tell a different story," says Dalton. "I see all of the women in my stories as people in stress. They have to be, because otherwise we're not interested in what the stakes are for them. Yet, there's a sensibility that links them-and that's how I came up with the title, Bulletproof Girl."

Quinn Dalton was born in South Carolina and received an M.F.A. at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in a variety of literary magazines, such as Glimmer Train, Story Quarterly, Mangrove, Cottonwood, Emrys Journal, ACM (Another Chicago Magazine), The Baltimore Review and The Kenyon Review. She won the Pearl 2002 Fiction Prize for her short story, "Back on Earth." Dalton lives in Greensboro with her husband David Mengert and daughter Avery.

Don't miss DG Martin's all-new interview with Quinn Dalton on North Carolina Bookwatch, Sunday, August 28, at 5 PM, only on UNC-TV!

During this season of North Carolina Bookwatch, guests also include: Shannon Ravenel (New Stories from the South, 2005), Emily Herring Wilson (No One Gardens Alone), Randall Kenan (Walking On Water), Ann B. Ross (Miss Julia's School Of Beauty), Lawrence Earley (Looking for Longleaf), Peter Perret (A Well-Tempered Mind), Timothy Tyson (Blood Done Sign My Name), Moreton Neal (Remembering Bill Neal), Henry Petroski (Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering), Bill Morris (Saltwater Cowboys), Amy Tiemann (Mojo Mom), Robert F. Irwin (Robert F. Irwin 40 Years), Tommy Hays (The Pleasure Was Mine), Mary Kay Andrews (Hissy Fit), Jerry Shinn (Loonis! Celebrating a Lyrical Life), Michael Parker (If You Want Me to Stay), Lawrence Naumoff (A Southern Tragedy, in Crimson and Yellow), Martha Witt (Broken As Things Are) and Gerhard Weinberg (Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leader).

Funding for North Carolina Bookwatch is provided by UNC-TV members and by Quail Ridge Books and Music, Raleigh's independent, full service bookstore, bringing readers and writers together since 1984.

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