The Hungry heart, a collection of short stories by Frances Metzman

Frances Metzman has found the secret of presenting a mood in a short story with the sparest amount of words. Her short story collection, The Hungry Heart, contains insights into behavior, empathy, suspense and the subtle psychological interplay between people. We fall in love with Metzman’s characters and forget we are reading finely crafted fiction. The author has a rare gift to draw us in and make us root for the protagonist. These short stories deal with age-old relationship dilemmas. The general thrust of these beautifully-written, creatively imagined stories is to examine both the basest and the triumphs of human emotions. Metzman’s sure hand brings us into a fully realized world leavened with humor and passion.

• Paperback: 108 pages
• ISBN-13: 978-0982711552
• $14.95

From the Umberplatzen - a novel by Susan Tepper

Kitty is in her late thirties when she leaves her unhappy marriage and American homeland behind to settle abroad in Germany where she stays for a period of two years.  Here she meets the brilliantly eccentric German physicist she refers to as M.  He is passionate about many things, including the making and flying of beautiful silk kites.  The two begin a love affair.  Told in flashback, after Kitty’s return to the states, each of these interlocking flash-fiction stories weaves an element of their love relationship into a gift or item he sends her almost daily through the mail.  Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler has called From the Umberplatzen “a brilliant mosaic of a novel.”     

The stories in Susan Tepper’s “From the Umberplatzen” will haunt you. They are short, sharp, and ruthless in their tender investigations of memory and loss. — Steve Almond, author of God Bless America

Susan Tepper knows extraordinary things about love, about its delicate negotiations and its quiet ravishments. She also is a master of the short short story form who has assembled forty eight stunning, small-scale stories into a brilliant mosaic of a novel. From the Umberplatzen is a dazzling artistic accomplishment. — Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

This is a perceptive love story. — Simon Perchik, author of Hands Collected

• Paperback: 56 pages
• ISBN-13: 978-0982711545
• $12.95

Dosha, flight of the Russian Gypsies

Available November 9 2010 at a fine book store near you.

The novel follows the life of Dosha, a Gypsy in disguise. It offers unique insight into the tribal life of nomadic Gypsies, who under Stalin joined partisans fighting Nazi invaders, only to face entrapment during Khrushchev’s Thaw. By then Dosha and her talented circus horse have been drafted into the dressage team in Leningrad. Navigating political intrigue, narrowly escaping discovery by the KGB, she enters a love forbidden to Gypsy women. One goal remains uppermost in her mind – leading her
tribe and her horse to freedom in the West.

Sonia Meyer fled the Nazis with her parents when she was 2 years old to live in the woods of Germany and Poland with partisans and Gypsies. There her father taught her to throw hand grenades using a wooden darning egg. They lived in the woods, in abandoned houses, in fields, in isolated excursion inns and barns, always dodging the German and later Soviet armies who hunted them relentlessly. Shortly after the war Sonia and her family returned to Cologne Germany where she foraged for food with a band of Gypsies camped nearby.

Press Kit for Sonia Meyer.

"Pub Sheet" for interested retailers.

ISBN:   978-0-9827115-1-4
LOC Number:  2010929986
 

Deer and other Stories by Susan Tepper

Susan Tepper… has written a collection of short stories as quirky as her life so far... and the Deer in the title appears in the stories as a kind of leitmotif… suddenly darting into your path, to haunt the story…
— Saul Friedman, NEWSDAY (Syndicated Columnist & Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist)

The stories in DEER are terrific, many remind me of Hemingway's In Our Time: the woods, the war, the indirection... --Robert Viscusi, Astoria (American Book Award)

 $16.95 
 ISBN 978-0-578-02479-0

The best of Wilderness House Literary Review - Volume 3

The Wilderness House Literary Review was formed out of the desire of a group of writers and poets to create an online journal for their works. As promised this is a print summary of the best of volume 3.

All through the year, the Little Magazines arrive. The public knows nothing about them, and you don’t usually see them in bookstores. But they are loaded with short fiction, poetry, and sometimes photography, and are often the medium in which the work of the best and most successful fiction writers first appears. …

Massachusetts-based literary magazines include Ploughshares, WHLreview, Button, Boston Review, Boston Book Review, Worcester Review, South Boston Literary Gazette, AGNI Review, Massachusetts Review, and Fulcrum. Let attention be paid. - David Mehegan

$24.99
ISBN 978-0-557-11078-0

Wilderness House Literary Review - Volume 2

All through the year, the Little Magazines arrive. The public knows nothing about them, and you don’t usually see them in bookstores. But they are loaded with short fiction, poetry, and sometimes photography, and are often the medium in which the work of the best and most successful fiction writers first appears. …

Massachusetts-based literary magazines include Ploughshares, WHLreview, Button, Boston Review, Boston Book Review, Worcester Review, South Boston Literary Gazette, AGNI Review, Massachusetts Review, and Fulcrum. Let attention be paid. - David Mehegan

$21.95
ISBN 978-0557027590

Wilderness House Literary Review - Volume 1

The Wilderness House Literary Review was formed out of the desires of a group of writers and poets to create an online journal for their works. As promised this is a print summary of the best of volume 1.

$24.95
ISBN 978-0615162652