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Aug 26, 2008: The Paisano gives rave review of How Best to Avoid Dying

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August 26, 2008 Rave reviews of Egerton’s stories won’t die soon: “How Best To Avoid Dying, a collection of short stories by Owen Egerton, is mind-blowing. This collection is not an escape from everyday problems; it is a celebration of them.”

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Rain Taxi reviews How Best to Avoid Dying

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March 2008 Rain Taxi Reviews Owen Egerton’s How Best to Avoid Dying: “This is a serious book, no question, about matters of faith and love and mortality, yet it is also playful, sardonic, silly, chatty, and sometimes curt. And while this work is clearly reminiscent of the best of its kind, in a strange and intoxicating universe that includes writers from Vonnegut to Barry Yourgrau, Egerton’s take is all his own.”

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Max Falkowitz Reviews Owen Egerton’s How Best to Avoid Dying

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September 2007 Max Falkowitz Reviews Owen Egerton’s How Best to Avoid Dying: Rarely do stories complement each other so well as in this bizarre collection, which is at once darkly tragic, hoarsely satirical, exuberantly hilarious, and deeply moving. Egerton’s art is driven by a playfulness which rings throughout all these gems, but it far from undercuts the serious. The variety of genres in this volume from traditional short stories to blistering flash fiction, fairy tales to self-referential annotations, are all peppered with an abundance of moods and attitudes.

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Rick Kleffel Reviews Owen Egerton’s How Best to Avoid Dying

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August 2, 2007 Rick Kleffel Reviews Owen Egerton’s How Best to Avoid Dying: Readers who come here to find the obscure but outstanding, rejoice! Owen Egerton offers some sterling but strange advice in his collection of short stories titled ‘How Best to Avoid Dying,’ and this is advice you’ll really enjoy hearing.

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Reader Views Reviews Owen Egerton’s How Best to Avoid Dying

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July 2007 Reader Views Reviews Owen Egerton’s How Best to Avoid Dying: Owen Egerton has compiled a book of small stories in “How Best to Avoid Dying.” I have to say that I had mixed feelings as I read through some of the stories. It is very difficult to describe my feelings about them as they had the strangest affect on me. I was very disturbed by many of them, but something about them compelled me to read on. I don’t think a book has ever had quite that affect on me before. The author is an excellent writer and definitely knows how to draw a reader in.

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Reader Views Interviews Owen Egerton

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July 2007 Reader Views Interviews Owen Egerton, How Best to Avoid Dying: Today, Tyler R. Tichelaar of Reader Views is pleased to be joined by Owen Egerton, author of the short story collection, “How Best to Avoid Dying.”

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Owen Egerton in Philadelphia City Paper

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July 18, 2007 On the DL, Owen Egerton: Sometimes it’s OK to laugh when people die — in fiction, anyway. Imagine a spelling bee where wild pigs devour the contestants when they miss a word, or a church camp where every other week a counselor dies in a freak accident meant to emotionally manipulate the campers into accepting Christ. Owen Egerton created these and many more twisted scenarios in his short story collection, How Best to Avoid Dying, and he hopes that when he reads them to you, you will snicker.

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Rachael Byrd reviews Owen Egerton’s How Best to Avoid Dying

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July 18, 2007 Rachael Byrd Reviews Owen Egerton’s How Best to Avoid Dying: From the first sentence, Owen Egerton’s new collection of short stories is bizarre, humorous, and compelling. The book is eighteen stories long, and each story is a drop of chocolate syrup on a pine needle.

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The Midwest Book Review of How Best to Avoid Dying

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July 2007 Victoria Kennedy Reviews Owen Egerton’s How Best to Avoid Dying: This is an eclectic bunch of stories about dying and the human condition. If that sounds boring…it’s not. Each tale is a journey itself through the human psyche. Some are bizarre, but thought provoking and entertaining.

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