In this, his third collection, Tracy Daugherty focuses on social and cultural forces shaping people’s intimate behavior. Set in Texas and Oklahoma, the stories and novella suggest that even politics is a kind of family squabble whose elusive...
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The narrative interweaves history, myth, rumor, and news with the experiences of a young girl living in the flatness of South Florida. Like Grace Paley’s narrators, she is pensive and eager, hungry for experience but restrained. Into the sphere of...
Desire Provoked is an amusing look at modern living, while also a meditation on fatherhood, marriage and ambition. The cartographer protagonist of the novel, Sam Adams, can’t seem to map out his own life while he maps everything else for a...
A stunning tour de force, Tracy Daugherty’s fourth novel explores the volatility of race, class, and economics as they affect three generations of a Houston, Texas, family, and traces the rise and decline of an inner city neighborhood from the...
My Father More or Less deals with the confrontation between an 18 year old boy and his estranged novelist-turned-screenwriter...
Jonathan Baumbach’s debut — a comic novel with tragic concerns. Peter Becker finds himself coming back after fourteen years to try to pick up his life where he had left...
No one is smarter or funnier about the absurdities and agonies of modern love.
Hilda Wolitzer
A staple in the literary scene for over forty years, Jonathan Baumbach’s latest collection, Flight of Brothers, is a wonderful addition to his...
A staple in the literary scene for over forty years, Jonathan Baumbach’s latest novel, Dreams of Molly, is a wonderful addition to his oeuvre. A love story as only Baumbach can write, it is filled with the longings and lingerings, the sex and...
Part of the Illinois Short Fiction Series, a collection of short...
An honest and elegant (if not slightly disturbing) imagining of the way truth becomes elusive in long-term relationships. Separate Hours is a love story about the betrayal of...