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by Benjamin Percy

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October 2007, 256 pages, $15.00

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Percy's stories are brave and fresh and -- because they reflect a nearly institutional violence all too easily identified as realistic -- scary.

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Painfully Masculine: An Interview with Benjamin Percy

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24.Apr.08

With the rise of the metrosexual and the fall of the patriarchal society, some men, lost in a gray zone, compensate by joining Gold’s Gym, screaming at Packers games, and driving big-ass Hummers

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