Jonathan Baumbach is the author of fourteen books of fiction, including "You, or The Invention of Memory"; "On the Way to My Father's Funeral: New and Selected Stories"; "B: A Novel"; "D-Tours"; "Separate Hours"; "Chez Charlotte and Emily"; "The Life and Times of Major Fiction"; "Reruns"; "Babble"; and "A Man to Conjure With". He has also published over ninety stories in such places as "Esquire", "Open City", and "Boulevard". Baumbach, cofounder of the Fiction Collective in 1973, the first fiction writers cooperative in America, has seen his work widely praised. His short stories have been