Lawrence Press imprint: 22 books

The Butterfly Collector is full of people you know: a beautician, a lawyer, a man with Alzheimer's who takes his first nightcap at 3:00 p.m. But each of these thoroughly knowable protagonists is faced with a situation that causes them to become extraordinary. In these stories, Fred McGavran is both...

Michael Hemmingson has been called “Raymond Carver on acid” by literary guru Larry McCaffery and “a disciple of a quick and dirty literature” by the American Book Review. Hemmingson writes from within the everyday man's murky nightmares, offering hints and then, dazzlingly, reneging on his hints.

Revie becomes convinced he is the second coming of Christ. But when his mother runs away to Hollywood, Revie's faith is shaken.

"Ron Savage's tales-through terse, compact, suggestive phrases opens to the reader the inner world of his characters, while understatedly describing an indifferent, often harsh, world within which they are encased-take on many of the vexing issues (such as: war, violence, and the resulting physical...

Perishables opens with a sister sitting calmly on a burning chair then moves out of the childhood home that seems so fragile that it might split along the equator like a rotten piece of stone fruit. It is a reckoning of those things, outside and in, that we must Handle With Care.

"(B.C. Edwards) is a writer possessed of a quicksilver anarchic imagination and I recommend his fiction highly to all and sundry."-Patrick McGrathFrom "My Recipe for the Best Tuna Salad in the World":Malcolm,I've finished clearing out the apartment, you boy-hungry mongoloid. The last of your things are...

This collection of three short stories, winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition, is about humans trying to understand themselves and each other, specifically across cultural borders, against the backdrop of war, and within the confines of marriage.

“Clearman paints a vivid picture of the gritty and graceful sights of Guatemala as well as of the human heart, while touching upon the universal instinct to protect our children from real and imagined threats.”Holly MacArthur, managing editor of Tin House