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These stories are rich in intimate glimpses into the inner worlds of quietly extraordinary people: a man who wants to give fatherly love to his girlfriend's son; a farmer who regrets the loss of a great tree from her front lawn for her family's satellite reception; an immigrant who tells his American wife the same two old family stories and only fixes two-stroke engines.Rick Rofihe's work has been well received by critics at The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and Washington Post Book World.Bruce Allen in The New York Times Book Review wrote, "These surgically precise slices of intelligent life are distinguished by virtuosic phrase-making and fetchingly off-beat specifics." Gregory McNamee in Washington Post Book World wrote, "Rofihe speaks convincingly in many voices." Rick Rofihe's stories were praised in The New Yorker with these words: "... brief, mostly first-person stories about the riddles of communication and the grammar of loneliness. Rofihe's oblique narratives are coded messages, waiting to be deciphered." He is a Whiting Award winner and has taught at Columbia University.

"PARTY OF PICTURES is a reel, both the dance and the loop, and I suppose the stagger, highly diverting."GEORGE O'BRIEN - The Village of Longing, Dancehall Days"Party of Pictures is a splendid invitation to an annual fete, one honoring a madcap saint, a party both ordained and yet unexpected. McGonigle excels at capturing memorable dates and places - and who can resist a St. Patrick's Day bacchanal, especially one hilarious and reflective, that repeats year after year at the same Greenwich Village apartment, an event engendering spiritual and spirited commentary? McGonigle excels as the perfect host: attentive, gregarious and generous. Enjoy!"WILLIAM O'ROURKE - Idle Hands, The Harrisburg 7 and the New Catholic Left, The Meekness of Isaac"Narrated by a sort of track-skipping DJ, Party of Pictures is a high-wire-enacted party-of-fools satire that glides us through a Greenwich Village apartment mined with literary trapdoors. Tours de force are what I praise highest and that's what Party of Pictures is."TOM WHALEN - The President in Her Tower, The Straw that BrokeDoes Party of Pictures capture a modern pilgrimage to the ancient bacchanalia? Or a final trip to a Greenwich Village crash pad? No matter: the novel is one great party. Thomas McGonigle, gatekeeper and guide, navigates the ephemeral world of downtown Manhattan as it reveals itself in a West Village apartment for St. Patrick's Day. Snapshots of the living and the dead cover the walls. Not everyone has been invited to the Party of Pictures, but all are caught in the photos.

Collection of Plays written by Robert Lyons, Artistic Director of the New Ohio Theatre and produced in New York City. Jed Ryan of the Huffington Post stated Lyons' work is "Essential theater for the new generation." Three-time Obie Award winner Mac Wellman praised Lyons' plays as "Startling and wildly imaginative made-up worlds, laced with eclectic humor, ironic twists, theatrical high-jinks, and terrifying absurdities... each play a powerful, strange, uniquely entertaining investigation of our own troubling times."