Winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction, 2010. The title, "A Bright Soothing Noise, "refers to the sound that fire makes, promising not only warmth and light but also violence and destruction. Brown s greatest hero is Frank O Connor, and like O Connor s his stories uncover the final bleakness of a national life but in the same moment glow with its promise of love and life and belonging. Brown s Americans will try almost anything to connect. They tend to drink too much, to drive too fast, are a little too violent in their passions and even a little too religious. Too...
Winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction, 2010. The title, "A Bright Soothing Noise, "refers to the sound that fire makes, p...
Winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction, 2012.The short stories in this rich debut collection embody in their complexity Alice Munro s description of the short story as a world seen in a quick, glancing light. In chiseled and elegant prose, Lieberman conjures wildly disparate worlds.A middle aged window washer, mourning his wife and an estranged daughter, begins to grow attached to a young woman he sees through the glass; a writer, against his better judgment, pursues a new relationship with a femme fatale who years ago broke his heart; and the daughter of a Holocaust...
Winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction, 2012.The short stories in this rich debut collection embody in their complexity Alice M...
When an unwed pregnant woman is pressured to get married by her boyfriend, parents, and the entire culture around her, she sees a feverish intensity emanating from the path to domesticity, a "paved path shaded by thick-trunked trees, lined with trim grass and manicured mansions, where miniature houses play mailboxes and animals play lawn ornaments and people play happiness." Jessica Hollander's debut collection exposes a culture that glorifies and disparages traditional domesticity, where people's confusion, apathy, and anxiety about the institutions of marriage and family often drive them to...
When an unwed pregnant woman is pressured to get married by her boyfriend, parents, and the entire culture around her, she sees a feverish intensity e...
Drawing from fairy tales, ghost stories, and science-fiction, the stories in ActivAmerica explore how we confront (and exert) power and re-imagine ourselves through sports and athletic activities.
Drawing from fairy tales, ghost stories, and science-fiction, the stories in ActivAmerica explore how we confront (and exert) power and re-imagine our...