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Modern Literary Fiction
Sima's Undergarments for Women by Ilana Stanger-Ross
Mon, Jun 01, 2009
lana Stanger-Ross grew up in Brooklyn. She holds an undergraduate degree from Barnard College and an MFA from Temple University. She is currently a student midwife on the University of British Columbia faculty of medicine. She has received several prizes for her fiction, including a Timothy Findley Fellowship, and her work has been published in Bellevue Literary Review, Lilith magazine, The Globe and Mail, and The Walrus magazine, among others.
I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass
Sun, May 24, 2009
Julia Glass is the author of Three Junes, which one the National Book Award for Fiction, and The Whole World Over. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Her short fiction has won several prizes, including the Tobias Wolff Award and the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society Medal for the Best Novella. She lives with her family in Massachusetts.
Some Day This Pain Will Be Useful to You by Peter Cameron
Mon, Jun 01, 2009
PETER CAMERON is the author of several novels, including Andorra and The Weekend. He lives in New York City.
Highway Cats by Janet Taylor Lisle
Sun, May 24, 2009
Janet Taylor Lisle lives in Little Compton, Rhode Island.
Another Country by James Baldwin
Mon, Jun 01, 2009
James Baldwin (1924-1987) was educated in New York. He is the author of more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, including Go Tell It on the Mountain, Notes of a Native Son, Another Country, and Blues for Mister Charlie. He has received many awards including the Eugene F. Saxon Memorial Trust Award, a Rosenwald Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Partisan Review Fellowship, and a Ford Foundation grant. He was made a Commander of the Legion of Honor in 1986.
To Siberia by Per Petterson
Mon, Jun 01, 2009
Per Petterson won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his novel Out Stealing Horses, which has been translated into more than thirty languages and was named a Best Book of 2007 by The New York Times.