Adam Van Winkle, fiction writer + editor
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"Adam Van Winkle's While They Were in the Field is nothing short of a Shakespearean tragedy played out in the farmland of America. A powerfully structured book with as much heart as it has bloodshed, this is a novel that stays with you like an electric streak across a dying, twilight sky."
-Sheldon Lee Compton
"Van Winkle lives and breathes his characters, and weaves together the threads of his creations as if he is witnessing them alongside readers." -Jared Yates Sexton
"Here’s the real feat of While They Were in the Field: by the end you realize these are our people too. The warped, leafless and rotten limbs of our family tree that our parents never told us about. Then here comes Van Winkle to grin, wink, and flick the match. Let us all watch the flames as our family secrets lick closer and closer til all that's left is the ashes of the last American farmer. "
-Benjamin Drevlow
"Adam Van Winkle's writing is sharp and captivating, shot through with Americana and iconic landscapes, with family and secret histories. More than ever, we need mantic storytelling like this in our lives."
-Robert James Russell
"This is a novella that never takes the easy way out when it comes to making readers bleed."
-Joey R. Poole
"What Robert E. Howard or F.X. Toole did for boxing, Adam van Winkle does for the fun mirror world of professional wrestling.”
-Gonzalo Baeza
-Sheldon Lee Compton
"Van Winkle lives and breathes his characters, and weaves together the threads of his creations as if he is witnessing them alongside readers." -Jared Yates Sexton
"Here’s the real feat of While They Were in the Field: by the end you realize these are our people too. The warped, leafless and rotten limbs of our family tree that our parents never told us about. Then here comes Van Winkle to grin, wink, and flick the match. Let us all watch the flames as our family secrets lick closer and closer til all that's left is the ashes of the last American farmer. "
-Benjamin Drevlow
"Adam Van Winkle's writing is sharp and captivating, shot through with Americana and iconic landscapes, with family and secret histories. More than ever, we need mantic storytelling like this in our lives."
-Robert James Russell
"This is a novella that never takes the easy way out when it comes to making readers bleed."
-Joey R. Poole
"What Robert E. Howard or F.X. Toole did for boxing, Adam van Winkle does for the fun mirror world of professional wrestling.”
-Gonzalo Baeza