Laura Furman, Author Winedale Publishing $22.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-9657468-4-7
In this sometimes haunting memoir, novelist Furman (Tuxedo Park) describes the first 13 years of a life geographically divided between an apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side and a summer house in New Jersey and temporally bifurcated by her...
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Laura Furman, Author Summit Books $17.45 (352p) ISBN 978-0-671-49754-5
What distinguishes Munro (The Moon of Jupiter from most other contemporary practitioners of short fiction is that she brings to each story a freshness of vision, a breadth of sympathy and a wide-ranging imagination that make her work both...
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Laura Furman, Author Winedale Publishing $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-9701525-2-7
The protagonists of the 13 sensitive, well-crafted stories in Furman's new collection are mainly women who lead solitary inner lives even when they are involved in intimate relationships. Most live in the country, or in the suburbs of cities in...
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Laura Furman, Free Press, $15 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-4391-9465-2
A nicely hewn collection of new stories by PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories series editor Furman (The Glass House) pursues three family cycles with a hard focus on the mothers. The first, most engaging trio begins with "The Eye," an enchanted summer...
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Laura Furman, Author, Laura Furman, Editor Anchor Books $17 (384p) ISBN 978-0-307-27688-9
Culled from dozens of the most prestigious literary magazines throughout America and Canada, the 20 stories included in this year's O. Henry Prize collection make an impressive and eclectic crop, including seasoned vets (Alice Munro), rising stars (T
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A. C. Greene, Author, Laura Furman, Author, Robert Flynn, Author . Wings Press $16.95 (200p) ISBN 978-0-930324-57-5
The Texas landscape, famous both for its mythic extent and the epic scale on which it has been despoiled, is the subject of this appealing but uneven protest anthology of environmentalist writings by associates of the Texas Institute of Letters....
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