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Marginalia: Brock Clarke

With the publication of his most recent story collection, The Price of the Haircut, Brock Clarke now has 4 novels and 3 story collections on his list of published works. Punctuated with Clarke’s sardonic humor, the new collection is delightfully dark, yet hopeful at times. 

Humor was in full force when I recently caught up with Brock Clarke via phone, to talk about The Price of the Haircut, his short story and novel writing… and basketball.

Here’s our conversation:

And if you listened to the commentary on air, this is what you heard:

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Brock Clarke | Marginalia, the commentary

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The Price of the Haircut by Brock Clarke was published by Algonquin.

Marginalia was produced at KMUW Wichita. Edited by Lu Anne Stephens; produced by Beth Golay.

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Beth Golay is KMUW's Director of Marketing and Digital Content. She is the host of the KMUW podcast Marginalia, co-host with Suzanne Perez of the Books & Whatnot podcast, creator of the podcast You're Saying It Wrong, creator of KMUW's daily news podcast Wichita's Early Edition, and NPR StoryLab Workshop team member on the award-winning podcast My Fellow Kansans.