Glimmer Train Stories, #41 - Softcover

Burmeister-Brown, Susan; Swanson-Davies, Linda; Ames, Brian; Rheinheimer, Kurt; Penn, Karenmary; Richmond, Michelle; Spargo, R. Clifton; Carlson, Ron; Enger, Lin; Doherty, Matthew; Salzman, Mark; Dowd, Siobhan; Linna, Gu

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1880966409 ISBN 13: 9781880966402

Publisher: Glimmer Train Pr Inc, 2001

Synopsis

Beautifully written, emotionally affecting, literary short stories by established and emerging writers.

About this title

About the Author:

BRIAN AMES writes from the Puget Sound area of Washington State. “Memory of Hard Rain” was his first short story accepted for publication, although his work has since appeared in the Massachusetts Review, South Dakota Review, and other publications. “Memory of Hard Rain” is from his story collection Smoke Follows Beauty, forthcoming at the end of the year from Pocol Press.

KURT RHEINHEIMER was born in Baltimore and has lived in Roanoke, Virginia, for the past twenty-five years. His fiction has appeared in many magazines, ranging from Redbook and Playgirl to StoryQuarterly and Michigan Quarterly Review. Three stories have been anthologized in volumes of New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, from Algonquin Books. He is the editor of Blue Ridge Country, a regional magazine covering the Southern Appalachians.

MATTHEW DOHERTY grew up in Scituate, Massachusetts, attended Holy Cross College, and now lives in the Bay Area. He has an MFA from the University of Alabama, and is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. His nonfiction has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

KARENMARY PENN earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Arizona. She has published stories in Indiana Review, Red Cedar Review, Willow Springs, Gulf Coast, Pittsburgh Quarterly, Glimmer Train, and the Chicago Tribune. She has received a Henfield fellowship, a Nelson Algren Award, and an artist fellowship grant from the Nevada Arts Council.

MICHELLE RICHMOND’s fiction has appeared in CutBank, Gulf Coast, and the Florida Review, among others. She has received a fellowship from the James Michener Foundation, as well as residency grants from the Saltonstall Foundation and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Her story collection, A Criminal History, was short-listed for the Bakeless Prize. Another collection, The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress, won the AWP Award for Short Fiction, and is forthcoming from University of Maryland Press. Richmond holds an MFA from the University of Miami and teaches creative writing in San Francisco.

R. CLIFTON SPARGO teaches American literature at Marquette University and has previously published stories in the North Atlantic Review and Green Mountains Review. The story here included also gives its title to a soon-to-be-completed collection of stories, A History of Minor Trespasses.

RON CARLSON is the author of six books of fiction, including the story collection The Hotel Eden. His most recent book is the novel The Speed of Light (HarperCollins, 2002). Mr. Carlson teaches at Arizona State University.

LIN ENGER graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and teaches at Moorhead State University, where he coordinates the MFA program. He has received James Michener, Minnesota State Arts Board, and Jerome Foundation fellowships. His stories have appeared in a number of journals, including American Fiction, South Dakota Review, and Great River Review. “What You Don’t Know” is part of a novel-in-stories.

An award-winning writer, MARK SALZMAN’s work includes two memoirs—Iron & Silk, an account of his two years in China, and Lost in Place. His novels are, so far, The Laughing Sutra, The Soloist, and, most recently, Lying Awake. Lying Awake explores the complex nature of faith, mysticism, and meaning from the perspective of a visionary Carmelite nun with a brain abnormality and an intense desire to serve.

Salzman lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Jessica Yu, and their now-six-month-old daughter, Ava. She is, Salzman says, “the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.”

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

Ron Carlson “Gary Garrison’s Wedding Day” “You’re going to be fine, Margaret,” her mother told her. “You’re the kind of girl who will look out the window while you talk to people. You are high strung, but you won’t perish. It will make you a good listener. Your life is going to be lovely if you can find the right company.”

Lin Enger “What You Don’t Know” I excused myself and went into the men’s room where I sat down in a stall, laid my forehead on my knees, and asked myself how it could have come to this. I’d been twenty-eight when I enrolled in UCLA’s _lm program, and to do it, I’d dissolved my three-year-old law practice in Minnesota. That was foolish enough.

Brian Ames “Memory of Hard Rain” Standing in the downpour just thirty seconds, I’m soaked to the skin on the shoulders and arms, and God turns up the volume, and I hear the velocity and pointed beat of raindrop on leaf quicken in a rush that moves, in waves with the wind, from every corner of my property.

Karenmary Penn “Sticks and Stones” He’d been devoted to her in the way an attack dog is devoted to the one who takes care of it. Marriage pared Dorothy’s expectations back soon enough, and she loved him as much as any person could love an attack dog.

Mark Salzman Interviewed by Linda B. Swanson-Davies You’ve got to be true to what interests you most deeply.

Michelle Richmond “Down the Shore Everything’s All Right” He rolls down the window, and the smell of New Jersey invades the car, industrial and sad and vaguely mean spirited, a lingering fog of factory smoke and hair spray. Everything looks dismal from the passenger seat, where I am silently rehearsing my break-up speech.

R. Clifton Spargo “A History of Minor Trespasses” Because it was the street, James always believed that something would come his way—not necessarily good or bad, but something must come down a street if you keep watching long enough. This is true in Iowa even as it is in Connecticut.

Kurt Rheinheimer “Fla” “What the hell are you talking about, Stel?” Hub said. You could tell he was nervous about the whole thing. About leaving his apartment, and his spot at the flea market, and his brother, and his hubcap suppliers, and who knows what all else.

About this edition

• Publisher: Glimmer Train Pr Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1880966409
• ISBN 13: 9781880966402
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192