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    In West Mills

    Jun 12, 2019 3 minutes
    De’Shawn Charles Winslow whose debut novel, In West Mills, was published by Bloomsbury in June.
    INTRODUCED BY Helen Phillips author of five books of fiction, most recently the novel
    The Need
    , which will be published by Simon & Schuster in July.

    first had the privilege of reading De’Shawn Charles Winslow’s writing eight years ago, when he was a student in my undergraduate creative writing seminar at Brooklyn College. “Your dialogue is filled with vitality, and

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