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"Karen Condon has an MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.  She recently won the Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers.  Another of her stories will appear in Story Quarterly this December."
                                   
The Local, was an official selection of the Brooklyn International Film Festival and was released in October 2009. Dan Eberle, an independent filmmaker, wrote, directed and starred in the film. He has also made Vicissitudes (2004) and JailCity (2006)

I failed to note during the program that I tend not to talk about plot when speaking of books or movies for the reason that it's important to me that I view a movie or read a book as a blank slate without prior lnowledge and want to allow listeners the same privilege.