Bøger af Gary Fincke

After the Locks are Changed showcases Gary Fincke's ability to not only write in multiple points of view, but to also locate and ground stories in places as varied as Los Angeles, small-town Pennsylvania, rural Appalachia and New York City. From straight-forward narratives to ones that are braided, associative, and multi-voiced, this veteran writer continues to write unflinching stories about American life.

Gary Fincke's chapbook Them! is packed with poems prompted by films that range from the lowest of the B-Movies of the 50s to A-list horror to Biblical epics.

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.

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.

The narratives throughout Gary Fincke's sixth collection of short stories contain newsworthy events that are chronicled secondhand. The narrator of each story is an ordinary person caught up in the action but preoccupied by other things, whether zombie movies, collecting unusual words, the oddity of other people's sexual habits, or what to do in retirement.

Coal burns underground and destroys a small town. A woman confronts police officers with her pet copperheads. A young girl drinks Drano. A man is banned from his favourite bar. Within these eleven short stories, Flannery O'Connor Award winner and poet Gary Fincke brings into focus the small struggles of ordinary people.

The narratives throughout Gary Fincke's Nothing Falls from Nowhere contain events told by an ordinary person caught up in the mundane action of day to day living but preoccupied by the dismal prospects life has to offer.

In these essays, Gary Fincke combines a journalist's relentless investigations into the darkest corners of the human condition with an academic's love for arcana. Fincke plumbs the depths - child abuse, violence, illness, grief - not for their sadness but for moments of courage, hope, empathy, and light.

Explores the human dynamics, gone wrong and right, of family, of loss for women who never 'said they needed their husbands to come back from the dead', of the ghosts that populate the world.

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 the well-known novelist and short story writer Dan Chaon serving as final judge, an exclusive craft-oriented interview with the great Etgar Keret, and an essay about the current state of microfiction written by Robert Scotellaro. The inaugural edition, Best Microfiction 2019, features eighty seven of the world's best very short stories.

In these twelve intelligent tales, seasoned poet and story writer Gary Fincke reconciles lost hope and quiet despair with small blessings and ultimate redemption.

The poems in Bringing Back the Bones juxtapose history, science, myth, and popular culture with a narrative thread that rises from memory. Groups of distinctively individual poems alternate with long poem sequences that range from one based upon the difficulties of genius to one that contemplates the wondrous things that literally fall from the sky.

A stunning collection of autobiographical narratives that propel us into the life and mind of a literary genius.

Coming of age in post-fifties America.

Gary FinckeA[a¬a[s new collection is a poetry grounded in memorable places and characters. He wants readers to remember the voices they hear in the poems, the work the characters do, the families they have, the things they believe in and strive to live up to. There is also a sense of the larger world layered into nearly every poemA[a¬ahistory, politics, science, culture. Here too are poems about the mysteries of adolescence, capturing moments of youthful dreaming and wishing. Told in a confiding tone, these are very accessible and inviting poems about the way we redeem ourselves daily, a poetry that, as distinguished poet and critic Edward Hirsch put it, A[a¬Amemorializes the past and honors the life lived.A[a¬A