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Brian Evenson, poet of violence

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Today in culture : His books make you want to sleep with a light on. His work is crafty, creepy and sinister. His characters drown, have their mouths stitched closed full of bees and suffer some form of psychological or physical trauma. Eve Jackson meets award winning author Brian Evenson. Then, a musical play starts in Paris based on the lives of the American criminal couple: Bonnie and Clyde.

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