Daniel Levine (MFA, 2006) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014 ISBN: 9780544191181 In this reimagining of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde from the monster’s perspective, Hyde makes a hero of a villain. Mr. Hyde is hiding, trapped in Dr. Jekyll’s surgical cabinet, counting the hours until capture. As four days pass, he has the chance, […]
Victoria Lancelotta (MFA, 1994) Counterpoint, 2000 ISBN: 1582430993 The women in Victoria Lancelotta’s debut collection of stories live in the space between memory and desire, where what they see around them and what they know to be true can be vastly different things. They live in a world where time is malleable, stones are food, […]
Victoria Lancelotta (MFA, 1994) Counterpoint, 2003 ISBN: 9781582431147 A dark, unsettling novel about a woman whose reluctance to adopt traditional female roles of marriage and motherhood results in a painful alienation from her Italian-American family and community. Written with Lancelotta’s characteristic passion and wit, Far is a haunting exploration of what it means for a woman to […]
David Johansson (BA, 1986) Spire, 2008 ISBN: 9780615189505 Caught between Baby Boomers and Generation X, come Americans who grew up without war and without terror. Cast into the new millennium, they discover that sensual pleasure no longer satisfies and that twentieth-century dreams have disappeared. They become The New Refugees, inhabiting a world where women and […]
Noy Holland (MFA, 1994) Fiction Collective Two, 2012 ISBN: 9781573661690 Swim for the Little One First is a dazzling new collection of twelve short fictions by the acclaimed fiction writer and prose stylist Noy Holland. The stories gathered in Swim for the Little One First vary in setting (Ecuador, Montana, Florida, the Berkshires, North Dakota, New Mexico, and […]
Noy Holland (MFA, 1994) Knopf, 1994 ISBN: 0679404813 There was a time when the longest story in this book was known by the title of this book – for in a certain sense that story concerns the fabulous costume nature can construe from us when it has made up its mind to unravel us down […]
Charlie Geer (MFA, 2001) River City Publishing, 2005 ISBN: 1579660622 When from the sheer weight of humanity and its assorted accouterments the Charleston Peninsula broke off from mainland South Carolina and began floating out to sea, among the last to notice were those persons trapped on board the unlikely vessel. . . . So begins […]
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Kevin Canty (MA, 1990) Nan A. Talese, 1999 ISBN: 0385491603 From the acclaimed author of A Stranger in this World and Into the Great Wide Open comes a novel that explores reckless love and penetrates the unrelenting winter landscape of the American West. Marvin Deernose, a Native American carpenter and recovering alcoholic, has just returned to his Montana hometown […]
Kevin Canty (MA, 1990) Doubleday, 1997 ISBN: 0385473885 Building on the success of A Stranger in This World, the widely praised collection of stories that was one of the most exciting literary debuts of recent years, Kevin Canty has written a blistering, unforgettable first novel. Set in the sprawl of suburbia, with its shattered families and […]
Wendy Brenner (MFA, 1991) Georgia, 1996 ISBN: 0820317942 Winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for short fiction, these stories are quirky takes on contemporary life in which animals, not always large, lurk around the edges. “I like animals and I like men” begins the hopelessly-in-love narrator of “The Round Bar,” who follows her married country […]