Liz Wieland, Author, Liza Wieland, Author Southern Methodist University Press $19.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-87074-337-5
This first work of long fiction by poet and short-story writer Wieland (her work appeared in Pushcart Prize XVII: The Best of the Small Presses ) is lush, emotive, lyrical, and often provocative, and yet it never quite coheres as a novel. Too many...
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Liza Wieland, Author Southern Methodist University Press $19.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-87074-441-9
Fatherless grown children long to know the men who've abandoned them, while other adults become their parents' caretakers, in the complex scenes of guilt, responsibility, empathy and chance created by these nine complex and luminous stories. Haunted
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Liza Wieland, Author Southern Methodist University Press $19.95 (260p) ISBN 978-0-87074-462-4
Jane Gillooly is an exotic dancer in Las Vegas with some very unusual family history in Liza Wieland's (You Can Sleep While I Drive) Bombshell. Once Jane's father told her, ""I'm falling out of the world."" Years later, her stepbrother, Charlie,...
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Liza Wieland, Author Random House (NY) $20 (268p) ISBN 978-0-679-42459-8
Bittersweet, intoxicating language infuses Wieland's ( The Names of the Lost ) first collection of short stories. Though at first glance these 10 tales appear to be nearly naive depictions of contemporary life, they are in fact bound together by a...
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Liza Wieland, Southern Methodist Univ., $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-87074-564-5
This third collection from Wieland (A Watch of Nightingales) features resonant, well-crafted stories of women—and one man—who examine the past to discover truths about the world and themselves. "Some Churches" begins with a woman catching a baby...
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Liza Wieland. Simon & Schuster, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-5011-9721-5
Striking imagery and sharp, distinctive language shimmer in Wieland’s haunting fifth novel (following Land of Enchantment), which imagines American poet Elizabeth Bishop as a young woman. It opens in 1930 as the Vassar student struggles with her...
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