Richard K. Weems (MFA, 1993) WbW Ink., 2014 The Cheap Stories series offered short, cheap eBooks of new literature. Now, Richard K. Weems offers The Way of It, New and Selected Cheap Stories. Highlights from the 10-volume series along with 2 new stories and a movie! Introduction by Camille Renshaw.
Aaron Thier (MFA, 2012) Tripoli College is a humble New England institution. Originally founded as a free school for Native Americans, it is now beset by financial problems and so has entered into an increasingly troubling financial relationship with a snack food corporation. Big Anna® deposes the college president, uses the campus as a testing ground […]
Justin Taylor (BA, 2004) Harper Perennial, 2010 ISBN: 9780061881817 Each story in this crystalline, spare, oddly moving collection cuts to the quick. Taylor’s characters are guided by delusions and misapprehensions that quickly bring them to impasses with reality. Moving through this collection the reader will meet a young man who has reasoned away certain boundaries […]
Justin Taylor (BA, 2004) Harper Collins, 2014 The acclaimed author of Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever and The Gospel of Anarchy makes his hardcover debut with a piercing collection of short fiction that illuminates our struggle to find love, comfort, and identity. In a new suite of powerful and incisive stories, Justin Taylor captures the lives of […]
August J. Specht II (BA, 1987) iUniverse, 2005 ISBN: 0595349579 Tired of losing deals, getting hung up on, missing quota, working a lousy territory, and meeting the wrong propects? This book will turn these into your competitor’s problems, and they will no longer be yours. Significantly increase your close ratio Structure a revenue-rich territory Select […]
John Sheppard (MFA, 1994) Trapped in dreary Sarasota, Florida in the early 1980s — during Reagan’s “Morning in America” — going to high school with junior fascists by day, working at Pizza Hut by night, his family a dysfunctional nightmare, 17-year old Buzz Pepper feels that nothing matters in life beyond drinking, drugs and punk […]
John Sheppard (MFA, 1994) The mission of the United States Army is to fight and win in combat. But what is its mission in peacetime? A young philosophy student drifts into the Army during the Reagan era and is shipped off to Europe to train and train and train to fight a war that would […]
John Sheppard (MFA, 1994) Alpha Mike Foxtrot is the raw chronicle of a soldier who walked away from his life, his schizophrenic brother, his runaway father and cancer-ridden mother, the punk rocker who finds him on the road, and the forgotten souls hidden away in a boarding house in the Midwest. Each chapter tells a story […]
John Sheppard (MFA, 1994) Moonshine Cove Books, 2014 No Brass, No Ammo is a crime novel featuring a KGB spy, federal agents, a code book, a stolen Soviet camera, a nutbar college professor, and the laziest gang of soldiers who ever stumbled into a barracks basement. The basement soldiers are led by Sergeant Hank Bean, a […]
Russ Schneider (MA, 1986) Doubleday, 2003 ISBN: 0345475852 In Siege: A Novel of the Eastern Front, 1942, author Russ Schneider takes us to the immediate scene of two Russian towns, Cholm and Velikiye Luki, the last holdouts for a small garrison of Germans surrounded by the vast Red Army during World War II. In Cholm, under […]