Fiction. Charlotte the spider...Wilbur the pig...Fern and Avery...and Lurvy, the hired hand. They and all the other characters from the timeless children's classic that you remember so well are back, in author and small-press overlord Hal Niedzviecki's first novel, LURVY: A FARMER'S ALMANAC. A caveat: given the (ahem) rather significant changes in social mores since the first appearance of these jolly folk, happenings on the Arable farm are somewhat different than you might well remember them.

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Hal Niedzviecki is the founder of Broken Pencil magazine and has published numerous works of social commentary, including THE PEEP DIARIES: HOW WE'RE LEARNING TO LOVE WATCHING OURSELVES AND OUR NEIGHBORS, HELLO, I'M SPECIAL: HOW INDIVIDUALITY BECAME THE NEW CONFORMITY, and We Want Some Too: Underground Desire and the Reinvention of Mass Culture. He has also published various works of fiction, including the novels LURVY: A FARMER'S ALMANAC and The Program, and the story collections SMELL IT and LOOK DOWN, THIS IS WHERE IT MUST HAVE HAPPENED.

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