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Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Memoir. CLOSING THE BOOK: TRAVELS IN LIFE, LOSS, AND LITERATURE explores the intersection of literature and life in personal essays about traveling, teaching, reading, writing, living, and dying. Each essay's narrative arc is formed and informed by the act of reading literature that makes a reader feel like the book she's reading was somehow written specifically for her to read in that exact moment. Renstrom relies on science fiction as a catalyst for grief, as well as a means of pushing past grim realities to begin envisioning life reconstructed and to embrace the idea that there's nothing wrong with rebuilding forever.

California Interest. Art. Music. CROSSED PATHS: DESPERATION SQUAD AND THE AGE OF FORTUITISM is an exploration and documentation of a slice of the underground art and music scene in the Pomona Valley of California, beginning in the early 1980s and moving into the 21st Century with a particular focus on The Desperation Squad. Highlights include stories from The Warped Tour, America's Got Talent, and lead singer Kevin Ausmus' run for mayor of Pomona (the Rock and Roll Mayor).

If the part of you that caused self-doubt had a face, would you recognize it? If your tendency to self-destruct had a name, would you know it? Told with humor, empathy and a driving narrative, Mountain Lion Blues is a surreal, dark comedy about the obstacles we place in our way that keep us from the love, success and well-being we've been taught since childhood are ours to expect. Part absurdist love story and part existential noir, Mountain Lion Blues speaks to the mountain lion-sized hole in all of us.

The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer. Co-edited by award-winning microfiction writer/editor Meg Pokrass, and Flannery O'Connor Prize-winning author Gary Fincke, this edition features Deb Olin Unferth serving as final judge, four essays & other insights, and eighty-three of the world's best very short short stories.

Bodies in Recline explores the full range of human emotions and behavior in a style imbued with profound irony and deep humor, with an inclination toward the latter. Powerfully imagined, the pensees in this collection will take the reader on a sojourn across landscapes both exotic and familiar. Bodies in Recline demonstrates the full reach of the author's imagination and creative powers. Keith brings to the reader a singular collection of idiosyncratic and laconic narratives designed to fully engage and provoke. The epigrammatic tales between these covers provide a sometimes numinous often harrowing account of what we do and what we think and what we think we should do.

Other Places, Other Times is a collection of twenty-six historical fictions. Thirteen of the stories are about Chen Hsi-wei, an imaginary peasant/poet of the Sui period, circa 600 C.E.As a boy, Hsi-wei served the emperor on a perilous mission. He turned down the offer of material rewards in favor of an education which made him a poet. Hsi-wei travels the empire making straw sandals and verses. The narratives account for Hsi-wei's poems, which are also included.The other thirteen stories are set in various times and locations, from post-war England to Renaissance Italy, Paris in the Fifties to post-war Germany, South America in the sixteenth century to Hesse in the mid-nineteenth, Ruthenia in the seventeenth, and the American West after the Civil War.

In the appropriately titled The Corridors of Longing, a wide variety of otherwise ordinary people anxiously face crucial choices. Personal trauma, anger, frustration, sexual desire, cultural shifts, work, and an assortment of other common issues are deepened and made singular, even in these very short stories, by the sharp focus of close observation.In settings and situations that range from mid-20th century to the present, fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, friends and enemies alike are given unique voices. The heart of each story is found quickly and followed until something beyond the apparently familiar is made surprising, yet genuine. Despite their imperfections, the characters, through their struggles with understanding, reach moments of tolerance and sometimes, through perseverance, obtain compassion and even love.Above all, despite how brief these stories are, they are nuanced and subtle. Instead of heroes and villains, there are characters who are complicated, with few exceptions, in less than a thousand words. In other words, they carry the weight of being human with varying degrees of success and failure. In other words, they are alive and demand our attention and respect.

From the entangled cosmos to our present quickening calamity, the central concern of Diminuendo is the making and unmaking of the world. The poems follow celebration -What keeps us earth lifehandful of sweet notes hiddenthrush- with lament - Latecomerswe believe it was all madefor us misunderstandthe nature of give and take. We live in uncertainty, "between earth and sky ever- / cycling despair and hope." Despite - or because of - this foreboding, Moore seeks to view the natural world in and of itself, beyond its relationship to humans. This work conceives a realm in which distinctions between animate and inanimate diminish and the boundary between physical and spiritual dissolves.

"A king who seeks to keep his kingdom safe and immaculate orders the destruction of a flower that he regards as pernicious weed, but soon finds that he has awakened the dragon who sleeps beneath a nearby mountain. The dragon takes her revenge on the king by eating his favorite horse and turning his firstborn son into a monkey. The king's angry reaction to this sets in motion a chain of events that will destroy his kingdom and scatter its people in all directions. In the midst of these events the young monkey will discover the pain of loss, the joy of love, and the secret of who he is"--

The Best Microfiction anthology series provides recognition for outstanding literary stories of 400 words or fewer. Co-edited by award-winning microfiction writer/editor Meg Pokrass, and Flannery O'Connor Prize-winning author Gary Fincke, the anthology features Tania Hershman serving as final judge, and eighty of the world's best very short short stories.

A king who seeks to keep his kingdom safe and immaculate orders the destruction of a flower that he regards as pernicious weed, but soon finds that he has awakened the dragon who sleeps beneath a nearby mountain. The dragon takes her revenge on the king by eating his favorite horse and turning his firstborn son into a monkey. The king''s angry reaction to this sets in motion a chain of events that will destroy his kingdom and scatter its people in all directions. In the midst of these events the young monkey will discover the pain of loss, the joy of love, and the secret of who he is.

Contains virtually everything David Allen has penned about the Los Angeles County Fair from 1998 to 2021 for the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. It includes stories of people, attractions, concert lineups, pricing, sights, sounds and smells.

The House of Grana Padano is a collection of tragi-comic, fabulist microfiction by two modern masters of the form, each story a world unto itself.

Joe, a sixteen-year-old puppet playwriter, has a near-death experience and is not met at the Pearly Gates by his hero, Jesus. This darkly humorous, full-color volume features vibrant artwork, stylized typography, and a compelling back story.

In Epiphany of a Middle-Aged Pilgrim, essays in lieu of a Memoir, author Peter Wortsman, best known for his prose fiction and plays, takes stock of life in late middle age.

"Photographs of people at the March on Washington, August 28, 1963. Taken by D. Dean Givens, these photographs focus on the people gathering at Capitol and on the National Mall in preparation for the Civil Rights March. This beautiful volume features commentary and observations from artist T.M. Givens, the photographer's son"--

34 conversations with self-reliant, self-employed, and otherwise self-motivated musicians, technicians, and artists. "Self Empunishment" by Brian Walsby, beautifully illustrated by the author and featuring an introduction by Bob Durkee, presents this series of interviews in one densely-packed, story-filled volume.

"Garden Prayers: Fall" is the fourth collection of drawings made at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden (now the California Botanic Garden) in Claremont and in Upland, California. As artist T.M. Givens states, "I think I've been producing a self-help book... you know, one that just comes alive or makes you come alive as you read it."

"Garden Prayers: Summer" is the third collection of drawings made primarily at the Botanic Garden in Claremont. These are, as artist T.M. Givens states, "still based on the idea that they are prayers ... what about if I don't have enough good words to let you know what I believe or that I'm thinking ... can you understand that well enough?"

Kendall Johnson served as traumatic stress consultant to emergency service agencies and the military for twenty-five years. Chaos and Ash records one consultant's views from the inside of some of the largest critical incidents.

These essays will provide you with the wisdom of the ages - the insights of Wilde, Austen, Milton, Shakespeare, Cavavfy, both Brontës and all the ancient Greeks. You will know how to dress, talk, organize, decorate and comport yourself in every possible situation, especially in cafés.

"Garden Prayers: Spring" is the second collection of drawings made at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Claremont and in Cambria, California. These are "still part of the meditation I experience while looking at or experiencing or talking to or wondering about or thinking of these living places," says artist T.M. Givens.

The Best Microfiction series provides recognition for outstanding stories of 400 words or fewer. Co-edited by Meg Pokrass, and Gary Fincke, this edition features acclaimed author Michael Martone serving as final judge.

100 cassettes take the reader through a series of impressions of possible music releases over the last fifty years through the eyes of musician/label owner Dennis Callaci.