Glimmer Train Stories, #31 - Softcover

Robert Chibka

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1880966301 ISBN 13: 9781880966303

Publisher: Glimmer Train Pr Inc, 1999

Synopsis

A quarterly anthology of great new short fiction by award-winning and emerging authors, this intimate collection celebrates writing and honors the writer. The editors--two sisters from Oregon--choose stories that are beautifully written, readable, and emotionally affecting. Each collection is also visually satisfying with handsome cover art and story illustrations, and unusual author profiles.

About this title

From the Publisher:

This collection includes six outstanding stories, one award-winning poem, and an in-depth interview-one of the last-with writer Andre Dubus.

About the Author:

Robert Chibka teaches creative writing and eighteenth-century novels at Boston College. He has written numerous critical articles for scholarly journals, and is working on his second novel, Rigid Liquids.

Janet Desaulniers's fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, the New England Review, and the Pushcart Prize anthology, among other publications. She directs the MFA in Writing program at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Andre Dubus, interviewed by Jennifer Levasseur and Kevin Rabalais in the months before his death, is the author of six collections of stories, two novels, and two essay collections. Dubus also received two Guggenheim fellowships, a MacArthur fellowship, the PEN-Malamud Award, the Rea Award for excellence in short fiction, and the Jean Stein Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Time Out recently called Jiri Kajane the best Albanian author since Ismail Kadare. Raised in Kruje, Albania, and trained in engineering at Tirane University, Kajane is the author of a number of stories and one-act plays.

Brent Spencer received the Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford, where he was also a Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing, and the James Michener Award at the Iowa Writers Workshop where he earned an MFA. The author of several books, including The Lost Son and Are We Not Men?, his most recent story collection was chosen as one of the best books of 1996 by the Village Voice.

George Stolz was born in New York, grew up in Pennsylvania, attended Columbia College and now lives in Madrid, where he writes frequently about art. He is currently at work on a novel.

Monica Wood is the author of Secret Language, a novel; Description, a book on fiction writing; and three educational books on teaching contemporary literature. His short stories have been widely published and anthologized. "Ernie's Ark," which appeared in Glimmer Train, won a 1998 Pushcart prize.

About this edition

• Publisher: Glimmer Train Pr Inc
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1880966301
• ISBN 13: 9781880966303
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172