Michelle Herman, Author . MacAdam/Cage $15 (191p) ISBN 978-1-59692-111-5
Endearing when its narrator decidedly is not, the latest from Herman (Missing
) takes a rather stiff, lonely, mid-40s Midwestern tenured professor of English poetry and gives her the canine humanizing treatment. Having drunk too much wine one night...
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Michelle Herman, Author . Univ. of Nebraska $25 (214p) ISBN 978-0-8032-2426-1
Herman writes about the multifaceted experience of parenting with elegance and hard-earned humility. Her memoir first appears to be less about motherhood than about her experience as a daughter and a friend, as she recalls how her mother's...
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Michelle Herman, Author Carnegie-Mellon University Press $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-88748-284-7
The novella can be a difficult form, straddling the immediacy of the short story and the more luxurious pace of the novel, but Herman balances these needs with aplomb in this collection of three long stories. Filled with warm, eccentric characters,...
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Michelle Herman, Author Ohio State University Press $15.95 (146p) ISBN 978-0-8142-0503-7
Short story writer Herman, who teaches creative writing at Ohio State, has taken a major chance with her first novel. It is set in the claustrophobic world inhabited by an elderly Jewish widow, Rivke Vasilevsky. She lives alone in a Brooklyn...
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