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Douglas Unger

Douglas Unger
Douglas Unger is the author of five novels, including Leaving the Land, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and his new book, Dream City, as well as a collection of short fiction, Looking for War and Other Stories. He is co-founder of the Creative Writing International program at UNLV and serves on the executive board of Words Without Borders. Currently, he is completing a book of new essays, The Geometries of Fiction.


Impulses, Sources, Trajectories: Douglas Unger on Discovering Why You Write

“What kind of writer do I want to be? Where does my writing come from?”
August 29, 2025  By Douglas Unger
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“Those Folks Never Had Their Lights Turned Off.” On the Literary Importance of Highlighting the Haves and the Have-Nots

From Barroom Chats with Raymond Carver to the Aperçus of Thomas Piketty, Douglas Unger Explores Class Consciousness in American Letters
October 7, 2024  By Douglas Unger
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