Dzanc Books: 412 books

**Kirkus Best Books of 2018 "Chaya Bhuvaneswar's debut collection maps with great assurance the intricate outer reaches of the human heart. What a bold, smart, exciting new voice, well worth listening to; what an elegant story collection to read and savor." -Lauren Groff, author of...

Author of nine previous novels, including four available through Dzanc Books in print and seven available electronically Author received the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and D.H. Lawrence Foundations, twice...

*Winner of the 2016 Dzanc Books inaugural Prize for Fiction *Author of the short story collection, Then We Saw the Flames, winner of the 2008 Juniper Prize for Fiction, University of Massachusetts Press, published by UMass Press *Authors stories have been published in The Sun, Quarterly West, Ecotone,...

*Winner of the 2016 Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize *Author’s short stories, essays, and poems have been widely published in venues such as Tin House, AGNI, American Short Fiction, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Puerto del Sol, New York Observer and more *Recipient of the 2016 Glenna...

In stylish, intimate, and devastating short flashes, The Doctor's Wifetells the story of three generations of a family in the Pacific Northwest.Winner of the Dzanc Short Story Contest, Luis Jaramillo's The Doctor's Wife pushes the limits of what a short story collection can be. In stylish, intimate,...

 The Iron Will of Shoeshine Cats (Publishers Weekly 10/26/09)Hesh Kestin. Dzanc (Consortium, dist.), $16.95 paper (334p) ISBN 9780976717782"From the author of the short fiction collection Based on a True Story comes a vibrant, hilarious addition to the genre of mob tragicomedy. Twenty-year-old...

From one of our most daring writers comes this intimate and seductive book: a working journal of pregnancy that was both a Lambda Literary Awards finalist and a Village Voice pick for Best Books of 2000. Maso chronicles with great tenderness and awe the months of her pregnancy, from its charmed conception through the auspicious arrival of Rose.

The economy has fallen, and flesh is worth more than dollars. Across four different districts of the City, a desperate banker must keep his employer happy at any cost, a boxer must choose between honor and the woman he loves, a criminal must atone for his past, and a man with a terrifying condition...

Author of two previous books, Prescription for a Superior Existence (Scribner) and The Loss of Leon Meed (Scribner) Graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop Work featured in Esquire, People, Joyland, Ecotone, Black Clock, FiveChapters and more Book critic for The New York Times...

Named one of The Telegraph’s Best Debut Novels of 2016 Listed in The Guardian's Not The Booker Longlist 2016 Selected in The Irish Times’ Our Favourite Books of 2016 Selected as a February 2016 must-read by Marie Claire Author won the Galley Beggar Press Short Story...

Quintet presents compelling portraits of five artists known and loved by aficionados of classical music: the cellist Yo-Yo Ma, the conductor Jeffrey Tate, the violinist Josef Gingold, the pianist Richard Goode, and the opera singer Birgit Nilsson. This gracefully written book offers a deeply personal...

David Galef's stories, whether longer or as tiny one-page wonders, can contain both humor and fear. In this work the ordinary slips easily into the allegorical, into the dream and sometimes into the nightmare, often leaving the reader with moments of narrative that will stick like a sharp-edged image...

These essays and reviews are mostly about literary fiction published in the last ten years and are written from the perspective of a fan of the McElroy/Coover/DeLillo axis or, more recently, the Powers/Vollmann/Wallace axis. The review-essays include pieces on all of the National Book Award fiction finalists...

20 years experience as a teaching artist in the Detroit Public Schools Essays in the book serialized in Teachers & Writers Magazine, Michigan Alumnus Magazine, the Detroit Free Press Senior editor for Detroit nonprofit InsideOut Literary Arts Project Author of six critically...