| So the Story Goes: Twenty-Five Years of the Johns Hopkins Short Fiction Series Contributor(s): Irwin, John T. (Editor), McGarry, Jean (Editor), Barth, John (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0801881781 ISBN-13: 9780801881787 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $23.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2005 Annotation: Since its founding in 1979, the Johns Hopkins Poetry and Fiction series has published forty volumes of short fiction, beginning with Guy Davenport's acclaimed Da Vinci's Bicycle. The series was launched with two guiding principles: to publish works of short fiction exhibiting formal excellence and strong emotional appeal and to publish writers at all stages of their careers. So the Story Goes gathers the best short fiction of the series, works exhibiting wit, elegance, and wisdom. Writing about a wide variety of subjects and in a multitude of styles, the twenty writers collected here share a mastery of language and an extraordinary ability to entertain. Ellen Akins from World Like a Knife, "Her Book" Steve Barthelme from And He Tells the Little Horse the Whole Story, "Zorro" Glenn Blake from Drowned Moon, "Marsh" Jennifer Finney Boylan from Remind Me to Murder You Later, "Thirty-six Miracles of Lyndon Johnson" Richard Burgin from Fear of Blue Skies, "Bodysurfing" Avery Chenoweth from Wingtips, "Powerman" Guy Davenport from Da Vinci's Bicycle, "A Field of Snow on a Slope of the Rosenberg" Tristan Davies from Cake, "Counterfactuals" Stephen Dixon from Time to Go, "Time to Go" Judith Grossman from How Aliens Think, "Rovera" Josephine Jacobsen from What Goes without Saying, "On the Island" Greg Johnson from I Am Dangerous, "Hemingway's Cats" Jerry Klinkowitz from Basepaths, "Basepaths" Michael Martone from Safety Patrol, "Safety Patrol" Jack Matthews from Crazy Women, "Haunted by Name Our Ignorant Lips" Jean McGarry from Dream Date, "The Last Time" Robert Nichols from In the Air, "Six Ways of Looking at Farming" Joe Ashby Porter from Lithuania, "West Baltimore" Frances Sherwoodfrom Everything You've Heard Is True, "History" Robley Wilson from The Book of Lost Fathers, "Hard Times" |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Anthologies (multiple Authors) |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2004022994 |
| Series: Johns Hopkins, Poetry and Fiction |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.6" W x 8.94" (0.85 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Since its founding in 1979, the Johns Hopkins Poetry and Fiction series has published forty volumes of short fiction, beginning with Guy Davenport's acclaimed Da Vinci's Bicycle. The series was launched with two guiding principles: to publish works of short fiction exhibiting formal excellence and strong emotional appeal and to publish writers at all stages of their careers. So the Story Goes gathers the best short fiction of the series, works exhibiting wit, elegance, and wisdom. Writing about a wide variety of subjects and in a multitude of styles, the twenty writers collected here share a mastery of language and an extraordinary ability to entertain. Ellen Akins from World Like a Knife, "Her Book" |
Contributor Bio(s): Barth, John: - John Barth, Professor Emeritus in the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, is the author of eleven other works of fiction--The Floating Opera, The End of the Road, The Sot-Weed Factor, Giles Goat-Boy, Lost in the Funhouse, Chimera (winner of the 1973 National Book Award), LETTERS, Sabbatical, The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor, Once upon a Time: A Floating Opera, and On with the Story--and two collections of essays, The Friday Book (also available in paperback from Johns Hopkins) and Further Fridays. He lives on Maryland's Eastern Shore.Irwin, John T.: - John T. Irwin is the Decker Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. His other books include F. Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction: "An Almost Theatrical Innocence"; The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story; and Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir, all published by Johns Hopkins.McGarry, Jean: - Jean McGarry teaches in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. Ocean State is her eighth book of fiction. Dream Date, Gallagher's Travels, Home at Last, The Very Rich Hours, and Airs of Providence have also been published by Johns Hopkins. Her short stories have appeared in, among other publications, The New Yorker, The Yale Review, Boulevard, and The Southwest Review. |