Literary Fiction | Fiction
May.12.2008
William Lowson has less than two months until fatherhood - a state he abhors, existing in this world governed by the limit of a human lifespan. To birth is to ultimately kill. His admittedly pessimistic view comes as a result of his work as a Human Remains Removal Specialist - professionally...
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May.05.2008
Winner of the AWP Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. The stories in this first collection deliver the reader into a world in which men, women, and children are on the cusp of some deeper consciousness. The writing gives lie to orderly images of...
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Apr.10.2008
At Conrad’s wedding, everything appears perfect as he embarks on a life with the woman of his dreams and a legal career that holds every promise. By contrast, his best man and childhood friend, Marcus, works at a dead-end job parking cars after coming out at home and dropping out of college....
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Apr.03.2008
Ellen DeLay, an upstanding citizen of Quillifarkeag, Maine, suddenly and unpredictably leaves her happy, twenty-five year marriage for a lonely cabin deep in the Maine woods where she makes a living dressing hunters' kill - bears, moose, deer. Ever the practical housekeeper, she does the bloody...
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Apr.03.2008
Two people, an aging son and his mother, roots forever entangled. . .
John, a forty-year-old Professor of Theoretical Physics, finds himself alone and stuck. Unwillingly, he faces a turning point where he must confront his past and accept it. Grace, his mother, sits in her living room telling...
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Mar.22.2008
It's a supernatural mystery, shweetheart AND a loving homage to film noir and pulp fiction, a tip of the hat to the likes of H.P. Lovecraft, Val Lewton and Raymond Chandler.
Cassandra Zinnea and Evgeny Nightstalk are the only private detectives in town who work from dusk 'til dawn. Naturally,...
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Mar.21.2008
'The Flight' is a captivating novel of authenticity and power, which opens up a chapter of World War II long overlooked.
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Mar.19.2008
Recent pub.:
2008 winter - Agni – "A Friday Desdemona" (short story) online exclusive
2007&2009- Agni – Pas de Deux, à Trois (short story) & Troika for Lovers
2007 "But a Passage in Wilderness" (poetry book)--Sheep Meadow Press
2008-From the Fishouse- audio...
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Mar.14.2008
On the eve of their thirteenth birthday, identical twins Chloe and Sue agree to get matching tattoos to prove their bond is stronger than DNA. So begins Twins, Marcy Dermansky’s funny and disturbingly honest debut novel, the extraordinary story of blond, beautiful twin sisters trying to survive...
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Mar.09.2008
Reviews: Hunger Point
Vanity Fair [A] wonderfully obsessive novel. The wise-cracking heroine of Jillian Medoff's bitterly funny Hunger Point deals with her dysfunctional universe by gorging herself on sex. New York Times The novel is Frannie's semi-picaresque odyssey from self-loathing to self-...
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