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The Only World You Get
Vannatta's stories take us to strange yet strangely familiar places--a funeral home and a search for a genuine Patek Philippe; a field where a sky-blue Cadillac may be buried; a farm where a family was slaughtered. The characters we accompany to these haunts are anything but strange, though. Lonely, fearful, some hopeless and others hopeful, some dangerous, some lost, some few even redeemed--they are all human. They are all us, living in the only world we are given.
Lives of the Artists
Throughout this collection, Dennis Vannatta distills art and storytelling into their core matter -- the human comedy. Vannatta also peppers in his own authorial persona, with anachronistic forays into the Vietnam War, pushing the envelope of storytelling to encompass the entire collection. The stories themselves run from the first cave artist and cave storyteller, who must tell a captivating tale or be assassinated, through a modern aluminum siding salesman obsessing over a lovely art historian and winding up trapped on an academic panel discussing Mona Lisa after the historian slyly hands him her name tag, promising to meet him at the panel. This salesman, too, must weave a story or lose -- not his life certainly, but all self-respect. Both caveman and salesman contrast the illusory stillness of visual art with the illusory movement of storytelling by injecting emotion into their stories, to eventually find redemption. Just so, Vannatta's persona injects Vietnam throughout this collection as if to say that storytelling can move to heal even the grossest of wounds: war. Book jacket.
The Care and Feeding of the True Duffer
Explores the plights of those brow-beaten golfers who have been hopelessly hooked on the game for decades but to their collective dismay, have never been even average -- much less competent -- at playing the game they love. This hilarious book, perhaps the first every written for duffers by a member of their ranks, offers compelling evidence why a fellow duffer can give more relevant evidence on how to improve duffers' feeble golf games then perhaps a professional can. Author Dennis Vannatta's often outrageously funny advice on how to improve and how to save money contains countless lessons learned and humorous anecdotes about his frequently frustrating 40-year love affair with golf that will entertain not only duffers, but newcomers, accomplished players and anyone who loves the game -- or enjoys side-splitting laughter.
The Imagination as Glory
Weigl and Hummer have assembled here the most representative writings on Dickey and his work. The essays assess Dickey's achievement, pinpoint his failures and successes, illuminate Dickey's philosophy and aesthetics, and suggest the direction his poetry might take in future. The volume includes two essays by Dickey himself, one of which provides the book's title. Other contributors include poets and critics such as Howard Nemerov, Robert Duncan, Joyce Carol Oates, Lawrence Lieberman, and Dave Smith. ISBN 0-252-01101-5 : $17.50.
This Time, this Place
"We come away from This Time, This Place feeling that the distant and the near, the communal and the personal, are not separate; rather, they are aspects of a single humanity, gazing at itself in a thousand mirrors."--The New York Times
Tennessee Williams
Presents a chronological survey of Williams' short stories.
H.E. Bates
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Ancient Colors
"Ancient Colors" is a 2017 Scars Publications poetry and prose book with material from assorted writers and artists, as the August 2017 issue release of the literary magazine "Down in the Dirt" (http://scars.tv/dirt). Since 2014 "Down in the Dirt" magazine is released every other month (and sometimes with bonus issues) as a 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback book, with not only it's usual ISSN# (print ISSN# 1554-9623 and Internet ISSN# 1554-9666), but also an ISBN#. Because of ISBN# releases, all issues now carry a title to accompany the new format, reflecting the writing inside the book as well as the cover design. Writers and artists included in this Scars Publications perfect-bound 6" x 9" ISB...
Middle Grounds
Alan Wilde identifies and defends what he calls "midfiction," which rejects both the extremes of realism and experimental, self-reflexive fiction. He offers as examples the best works of Apple, Berger, Barthelme, Pynchon, and Paley.
A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story
A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story provides a comprehensive treatment of short fiction writing and chronicles its development in Britain and Ireland from 1880 to the present. Provides a comprehensive treatment of the short story in Britain and Ireland as it developed over the period 1880 to the present Includes essays on topics and genres, as well as on individual texts and authors Comprises chapters on women’s writing, Irish fiction, gay and lesbian writing, and short fiction by immigrants to Britain
