Diane Schoemperlen: 4 books

"Schoemperlen's inventive language and narrative structures encourage readers to be free 'from the prison of everyday thinking.'"—The New York Times Book ReviewFirst Things First gathers eighteen of the best of Diane Schoemperlen's earliest and uncollected stories, with several being published...

In a “he said, she said” story, the writer always gets the last word. She is a writer, established and successful, with a full life and supportive friends. Then he walks into a book signing and back into her life 30 years after he broke her heart. This time, things seem different. The pair...

One Monday morning in April, a middle-aged writer walks into her living room to water the plants and finds a woman standing beside her potted fig tree. Dressed in a navy blue trench coat and white Nikes, the woman introduces herself as "Mary. Mother of God.... You know. Mary." Instead of...

The texts and images are taken almost entirely from [extremely strange] 19th-century manuals, handbooks, textbooks, encyclopedias, and other reference books What emerges from them is a surprisingly coherent set of stories, often very funny, equally often dark Re: her visual-text integration,...