Kalfus plucks individual lives from the stew of a century of Russian history and serves them up in tales that range from hair-raising to comic to fabulous. The astonishing title story follows a doomed nuclear power plant worker as he hawks a most unusual package on the black market—a canister of weapons-grade plutonium. In “Orbit,” the first cosmonaut navigates several items not on the preflight checklist as he prepar ...
What It Might Feel Like to Hope, the second collection from award-winning author Dorene O’Brien, is a masterful and eclectic mix of stories that considers the infinitely powerful, and equally naive and damning force that is human hope. A couple tries to come to terms with one another as they travel west in the uncomfortable twilight of their youth; a mortician and an idealistic novelist spar about the true nature of death; an aspiring author hop ...
From the unforgiving surf of Costa Rica to hidden vineyards in the South of France, the stories in Perfect Conditions span the globe, and the characters often struggle to find control in unrelenting circumstances: a deep sea fisherman discovers he may not be allowed to return home when his contract expires; a young woman mourns the death of a dear friend she cannot save; a newlywed couple embark on a disastrous honeymoon. Unflinching stories fro ...
This collection of stories will appeal to fans of short stories and collections. While maintaining a literary voice, these stories touch on a number of genres including horror, fantasy, and crime. These stories will appeal to those looking for fiction with a bit of heat, but not willing to purchase or embrace erotica. These stories also represent primarily a female perspective, focusing on both vulnerable and resilient women. ...
As an author of two previous books, Chicago Stories and Elephants in Our Bedroom, Czyzniejewski has an established following of writers and writing students. A beloved editor and professor, Czyzniejewski has a solid base of supporters and fans and sells very well among AWP types.Author's lifelong love for the Chicago Cubs and Major League Baseball and gig as a beer man at Wrigley endears him to male readers ages 25-50.This collection is a l ...
Strong candidate to garner attention as a 'Debut Author' due to Lanier's capacity for crafting mature, morally complex narratives with palpable narrative pull. Her complex world-view is shocking given her young age.Capable of blending gut-wrenching, dirty realism with the savvy wit of a Jezebel.com columnist.Enthusiastic endorsements from Joe Meno and Alissa Nutting indicate that author is poised to make a splash with 18-35 year o ...
These flash fiction stories from one of today’s emerging literary stars grasp to determine whether life can «come with fewer qualifications and be less equivocal,” a world where friendships are negotiated, love is one-sided, imagined, absent, or discovered, and where “going crazy is more subtle than you'd think.» ...
Cris Mazza's work has often been regarded as «disturbing» for its exploration of sexual politics, victimhood, personal accountability, and acts of sexual violence. With an introduction by Gina Frangello and a foreword by Rick Moody, Charlatan charts the development of a dynamic body of fiction by a writer due for discovery by millennial readers unsatisfied by mainstream feminism. Cris Mazza is the author of over seventeen books. Rick Mood ...
"Mr. Dixon wields a stubbornly plain-spoken style; he loves all sorts of tricky narrative effects. And he loves even more the tribulations of the fantasizing mind, ticklish in their comedy, alarming in their immediacy."—The New York Times The interlinked tales in this Late Stories detail the excursions of an aging narrator navigating the amorphous landscape of grief in a series of tender and often waggishly elliptical digressions. ...
