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• "Protest Lit" - "These stories focus on the ways huge geopolitical forces shape small individual lives," writes author Stacey D'Erasmo about Paine's "Scar Vegas."
• Salon Books | - "In an amazing debut, a fired-up writer takes aim at dumb American swaggerers and corporate greed." Salon's Maria Russo reviews Paine's first collection.
• 'Scar Vegas': She Stole His Kidney and Other Bad Luck Tales - review in The New York Times By Christopher Lehmann-Haupt.
• "The Milkman and I" - Text of Paine's short story which was the premier winner of The Boston Review's Short Story Contest.
• The Village Voice: VLS: Writers on the Verge - Brief write-up on Paine with some background information.
• War Crimes - Paine's featured short story in Zoetrope magazine.

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