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tania-hershman's picture
Apr.02.2012
My Mother Was an Upright Piano: Fictions builds on the strengths of Tania Hershman's first collection of short stories The White Road and Other Stories, which was commended by the judges of the 2009 Orange Award for New Writers. Hershman's fiction is inspiring, thought-provoking and witty. Her...
christine-hamm's picture
Feb.17.2009
From Amazon: (by Aleah Sato) Christine Hamm's Transparent Dinner illustrates the psychological breaking down of the American daughter. Beginning at the dinner table, this daughter intuitively knows her fate, and is forced to come face-to-face with her incompetent (at best) and malevolent (at worst...
michael-w-saunders's picture
Jul.18.2008
cliff-burns's picture
Mar.25.2008
My very first collection of stories and one that gained me some valuable attention, raised my profile...especially when people like Canadian literary great Timothy Findley took notice of the book and praised it highly. Sex & Other Acts of the Imagination features likely my most anthologized...
cliff-burns's picture
Mar.22.2008
A collection of short stories with a strong bent for the surreal. Compared to the likes of Jorge Luis Borges and William S. Burroughs, The Reality Machine is composed of fiction for people who don't like to play it safe.
jason-erik-lundberg's picture
Feb.28.2008
A beautifully surreal masquerade. World Fantasy Award Winning editor Forrest Aguirre brings you fantastical fiction from the most imaginative minds of our time. Contributors to this hallucinogenic spectacle include Brian Evenson, recipient of an O. Henry Prize and an NEA fellowship along with...
pinckney-benedict's picture
Feb.28.2008
"Welcome to the dream world. What you are about to encounter is the unfiltered stuff of the dream, and that is wild, terrifying, provocative, and unsettling material. In this volume, some of the best living Southern writers are offering up a feast of their dreams, wonderful and awful in equal...