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My WorksTourist Season
Ten stories about women, aged seventeen to seventy, each at a pivotal moment in her life. Four of these stories won major prizes; two have appeared in New Stories From the South: The Year's Best Featured in the Reader's Circle and AtRandom e-newsletters on the Reader's Circle website and www.authorphonechats.com STARS AT NOON: Poems from the Life of Jacqueline Cochran
When she died in 1980, Jacqueline Cochran held more speed, distance, and altitude records than any aviator in the world. Founder-Director of the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) during World War II, candidate for Congress, and corporate executive, she described her life as "a passage from sawdust to stardust." Imaginary Men
Winner, Iowa Fiction Prize and LSU/Southern Review Award. "The thing one quickly senses is the will and the voice, someone saying...'Relax, be comfortable, I'm going to take good care of you.' it turns out to be true. These are very fine stories." --James Salter, Judge, Iowa Prize Black Drum
In Black Drum, Enid Shomer fuses mind with body, knowledge with physical being, and affirms the capacity of language to forge this transcendent link...Shomer signals us to make the most of life, despite our limitations and in the face of bewildering catastrophe. |
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