Stephen Dixon, Author . Melville House $22.95 (220p) ISBN 978-0-9749609-2-0
In this deeply empathic novel, avant-garde veteran Dixon follows the lives of two writers from the time they meet as young men until late middle age. Neither Irv nor Leonard has achieved any great fame, and though there's a good deal of writerly
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Stephen Dixon, Author . Melville House $14.95 (335p) ISBN 978-0-9761407-8-8
Dixon's 25th book of fiction takes up the themes of his recent novels I.
and Old Friends
—writerly vicissitudes, spousal care, New Deal-era New York City childhood—here serving as the backdrop for a story about male sibling bonds....
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Stephen Dixon, Author . Melville House $16.95 (300p) ISBN 978-1-933633-30-5
In his 27th work of fiction, Guggenheim fellow, National Book Award finalist and Pushcart Prize–winner Dixon explores an affliction that neither he nor his protagonist would seem to know much about: writer's block. Meyer Ostrower is an...
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Stephen Dixon, Fantagraphics, $29.99 (566p) ISBN 978-1-60699-350-7
This mammoth collection presents five decades of Dixon: sex, frustration, and attempts at deeper communication, mostly missed. The 62 stories evoke neuroses, delusion, banality, and everyday absurdities in deceptively simple sentences, as with the...
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Stephen Dixon, Author Coffee House Press $9.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-918273-45-1
Dixon ( Garbage ) is preoccupied with deathby accident or suicide, old age or murderwhich may or may not have occurred. The title story depicts a writer suffering from a familiar maladywriter's block: ``Maybe he has said it all.'' The writer dreams...
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Stephen Dixon, Author Coffee House Press $15.95 (277p) ISBN 978-1-56689-081-6
As this collection of stories written over the past 25 years confirms, there is no mistaking Dixon, twice nominated in fiction for the National Book Award (Frog, Interstate), for any other writer. His insistent narrators and obsessive characters...
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Stephen Dixon, Author Cane Hill Press $8.95 (165p) ISBN 978-0-943433-00-4
Blend together Raymond Chandler, Franz Kafka and James Joyce, and the result is Garbage, a novel eminently more appetizing than its name. Shaney Fleet is a third-generation bar owner whose refusal to deal with a criminal garbage-collection service...
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Stephen Dixon, Author British American Publishing $17 (769p) ISBN 978-0-945167-41-9
The author of five well-reviewed but relatively obscure novels and eight story collections, Dixon may achieve a higher profile with this novel, a National Book Award finalist. Opening portentously with the protagonist's trip to Kafka's grave, this...
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Stephen Dixon, Author Johns Hopkins University Press $32.5 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8018-4738-7
The ever-prolific Dixon (whose novel Frog was a National Book Award finalist) once again brings his considerable stylistic skills to portraits of middle-class, college-educated men and women, many of whom work in academia. No other writer can...
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Stephen Dixon, Author Henry Holt & Company $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4424-9
These two short novels have as their anti-hero Gould Bookbinder, a high-strung New York City book reviewer and college instructor who's ""often being frazzled or on the border line of falling apart."" The first novel, ""Abortion,"" tells Gould's...
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Stephen Dixon, Author Henry Holt & Company $30 (656p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5923-6
Dixon's fiction never stops. Not only does he write lots of it (30 being his 20th book; see review of Sleep, Forecasts, Feb. 1); not only are his memorable protagonists nonstop worriers or talkers; not only do his sentences, paragraphs, dialogues...
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Stephen Dixon, Author British American Publishing $17.95 (193p) ISBN 978-0-945167-20-4
Innovative novelist and short story writer Dixon ( Fall & Rise ; Garbage ) displays a distinctive voice in these 20 well-crafted tales. Highly charged, insistent, often expressing themselves in gritty urban vernacular, his narrators emerge as ironic,
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Stephen Dixon, Author Henry Holt & Company $25 (642p) ISBN 978-0-8050-2653-5
As a body of work, the 60 pieces in this collection create a fictional world which, though often chillingly narrow in focus and perspective, manages also to be universal. Selected by the author (a 1991 National Book Award nominee for his novel Frog )
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Stephen Dixon, Author Henry Holt & Company $25 (374p) ISBN 978-0-8050-2654-2
Dixon's 1991 novel, Frog, earned him NBA and PEN/Faulkner nominations. His latest, Interstate, is equally distinctive and imaginative in portraying human peculiarities and the search for order in the seemingly irrational and meaningless contemporary
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Stephen Dixon. Fantagraphics, $29.99 (600p) ISBN 978-1-60699-604-1
In his stunningly intimate 16th novel, Dixon delves into the consciousness of author Martin Samuels after the loss of his wife, Gwen. Paralyzed by shock and guilt over her death, Martin revisits the moments that make up a marriage and a life—from...
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