Glimmer Train Stories, #34 - Softcover

9781880966334: Glimmer Train Stories, #34

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1880966336 ISBN 13: 9781880966334

Publisher: Glimmer Train Pr Inc, 2000

An anthology of 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.

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About the Author:

KAREN E. OUTEN, whose story Beneath the Earth of Her won our 1999 Fiction Open Award ($2,000), received a 1998 Few Fellowship in the Arts for her fiction. Her stories have appeared in the Philadelphia Enquirer Magazine, the North American Review, conditions, and Essence magazine. She is writing a novel.

WILLIAM J. CYR is a theme-park Show Writer for Walt Disney Imagineering. In years gone by he has worked as a concession supervisor, a pipe fitter apprentice, an Icee Bear, a litigation support manager, a pickle taster, a maitre d, and a situation-comedy writer, and is currently working on his first novel.

SIOBHAN DOWD of International PEN's Writers-in-Prison Committee in London writes this article regularly, alerting readers to the plight of writers around the world.

ANDREW SEAN GREERs short-story collection, How It Was for Me, was published by Picador USA in April 2000. His work has appeared in such periodicals as Esquire, the Paris Review, Story, and Ploughshares, for which he won the Cohen Short Story Award in 1997. He received his undergraduate degree from Brown University and an MFA from the writing program at the University of Montana. He lives in San Francisco, where he is at work on a novel.

RON NYREN lives in Oakland, California. He received his MFA from the University of Michigan, where The Salute to the Sun was granted a prize in the Avery Hopwood and Jule Hopwood Contest. His stories have appeared in the Missouri Review, Mississippi Review, Paris Review, and other journals. He has also written the book and lyrics for Mina & Colossus, a musical based on the life of poet Mina Loy. He is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

JEFF BECKER, just 22, grew up in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. Hes recently graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where, he says, he developed an affinity for independent studies, cognac, and garlic.

WORMSERs fiction has appeared in Antietam Review, the Cotton Quarterly, Gutter Poodles, and Welter, among other venues. She is a 1995 recipient of a fellowship to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts from the Jenny McKean Moore Fund. Still seeking a publisher for her first novel, Borrowed Light, wormser is hard at work on a second book.

RICHARD BAUSCH was born in Fort Benning, Georgia, in 1945. His stories have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Glimmer Train Stories, Harpers, the New Yorker, and The Best American Short Stories. Author of several novels and story collections, Bausch is Heritage Professor of Writing in the graduate program at George Mason University.

JOHN STINSON grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, where he is currently a graduate student and Teaching Fellow at Johns Hopkins University. He attended Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. His play Median was performed at Actors Theatre of Louisville and is published by Samuel French.

Karen E. Outen
"Beneath the Earth of Her"

"It's not that I'm closed to this," I say and feel an uncharacteristic wave of confession overtaking me, "I always thought I'd probably have kids. I mean, I still see it as a possibility. It's just rather indistinguishable from wanting a trip to Brazil, or swimming lessons, or a million other things."

John Stinson
"Love in a Changing Neighborhood"

Both had sought solace at the rickety bar deep in a once-choked industrial valley that each knew from separate, similar memories of visiting the place with their now-dead laborer fathers. Coincidence? Clearly not.

William J. Cyr
"Something for Nothing"

People parked their cars in these concrete carports that had little wooden cabinets for locking up all the junk you're never going to need, but, for one reason or another, can't afford to part with.

Richard Bausch
Interview by Jennifer Levasseur and Kevin Rabalais

When I wrote my novel Rebel Powers, there wasn't any aspect of the writing that wasn't fun, that I didn't look forward to in the mornings. I never used an alarm clock. I would wake up at sunlight. There was a big shadow of the house on the lawn, and I would know that by the time I was through with that day's work, the shadow would be on the other side of the house. It was a wonderful time.

Jeff Becker >BR>"All the Men and Boys and Sons and Grandsons"

The ambulance came, and she'd always gotten scared when she heard sirens 'cause maybe it was someone she knew. She's old. All her friends are old. She's buried three in three years.

Now, the ambulance was for her.

wormser
"The Essential Thing Forgotten"

Celia found my house equally foreign. She was the first and only friend with whom I confirmed the observation that everyone else's house smells different, but one's own house smells like nothing.

Ron Nyren
"The Salute to the Sun"

My mother says my sister and brother are my fault. For five years she tried to have children, with two different husbands. No luck, so she and her second husband adopted me.

Andrew Sean Greer
"Four Bites"

I laugh, although I am privately furious. He makes my childhood sound so mythical, as if he and my mother carved me out of ivory, breathed life into me, let me fall under a curse, and watched as I changed from that rare, beautiful boy into this ordinary man before you.

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