A Bright Soothing Noise Carolyn Kitch The prize-winning Austrian poet and

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A Bright Soothing Noise Carolyn Kitch The prize-winning Austrian poet andThe title, A Bright Soothing Noise, refers to the sound that fire makes, promising not only warmth and light but also violence and destruction. Brown's greatest hero is Frank O'Connor, and like O'Connor's his stories uncover the final bleakness of a national life but in the same moment glow with its promise of love and life and belonging. Brown's Americans will try almost anything to connect. They tend to drink too much, to drive too fast, are a