Dzanc Books: 412 books

Neugenboren's fifth book--Sam's Legacy covers both the life of Sam, a down-on-his-luck gambler who is also dealing with the legacy of memories of his Jewish father and grandfather, and the story of Madison Tidewater, the Negro Baseball League's 'Black Babe,' current janitor, and how their paths cross. The differences in how the two men resolve their loss of faith brings the novel together.

Neugeboren's second novel is the story of Harry Meyers--New York schoolteacher, alienated Jew, aging widower resigned to lonely retirement--and of what happens to him when his uneasy peace is shattered by violence.It is a taut, powerful story, quick with suspense, and original in approach. Neugeboren...

Neugeboren's debut collection of stories and third book. The title story, actually a novella, won the Transatlantic Review Novella Award, tells the story of Corky's baseball-playing brother, "probably the most famous guy in our neighborhood in Brooklyn," and is narrated by Howie. This adolescent Howie...

this story is set in the backdrop on the day the was finished with everyone rejoicing and a young boy who shares the excitement in the streets with his friends. Only going down a alleyway they encounter some men beating up a young lad and are warned never to tell anyone especially their family who were...

A non-fiction work by Goyen--his attempt to explain who Jesus Christ was utilizing Christ's own words.

The shared qualities of friendship and the healing arts are the subject of this riveting memoir of one man's battle with heart disease. When, in February 1999, Jay Neugeboren discovered he needed emergency quintuple-bypass surgery, he embarked on a journey that just began on the operating table. At sixty,...

A lyrical and funny look at democracy and bureaucracy, The Committee on Town Happiness consists of ninety-nine linked stories about disappearing townsfolk. Hot air balloons are launched to search for the missing; galas proliferate; laws are imposed ad absurdum; and a guerilla group forms. Absurdity and beauty reign; the Committee shapes this future of small-town America.

A non-linear passion play; an eloquent demand for a return to the roots of our being, our most ancient and elemental nature-air, earth, fire, water.

With his keen ability to evoke characters in the South and Middle America who find themselves in reduced circumstances, Brad Barkley restores our faith in human beings to endure the ravages of time with decency and humor. Out of intense loyalty, Reed feels reluctant to leave his crippled friend when...

A collection of short stories published in the Illinois Short Fiction Series

This shattering novel about wife and child abuse is a work of art that haunts the reader's memory. Merrill Joan Gerber reveals the love affair of Ginny and her sensitive but horribly destructive lover, Michael. The pair adopts a child that Michael both loves and abuses.

First published in 1973, Some Sweet Day is the story of the Turnbolt family in 1944, as told by six year old Gatewood Turnbolt, the eldest son. His relationship with his father, Will Turnbolt, a volatile, sometimes violent man, is a combination of wariness and love."It is an evocative, painful and lovely...

A collection of stories set in Oregon’s Willamette Valley-many of the protagonists having moved west to start their lives anew. PRAISE “Streetwise and pain-acquainted, John Domini’s new story-collection is a good rich read indeed.” -John Barth

Naples is an urban hive that has suffered many an earthquake over the centuries. The next such shakeup provides Domini with his premise. An American family, Jay and Barbara Lulucita and their five children, are something like innocents abroad. In the naive belief that they can help, they come to this...