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  • Reply All

    Stories

    by Robin Hemley ...
    A "touching and funny" story collection full of "sympathetic characters who are deeply flawed but just as deeply human" ( Booklist).Reply All, the third volume of award-winning and widely anthologized short stories by Robin Hemley, takes a humorous, edgy, and frank look at the human art of deception and self-deception.A father accepts, without question, the many duplicate saint relics that appear ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Studebaker

    A Novel

    by Robin Hemley ...
    In this novel of a woman in search of the meaning of family, "Hemley draws a quirky, droll road map of the human heart, with all its foibles and dangers" ( Publishers Weekly).In 1963, when Lois Kulwicki's father loses his job at Studebaker along with hundreds of other workers, he acts as if he has just been promoted. He buys a new car (the only non-Studebaker he's ever purchased) and takes his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • After Montaigne

    Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays

    Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533–92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne—a collection of twenty-four new personal essays intended as tribute—aims to correct this collective lapse of memory and introduce modern readers and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • I'll Tell You Mine

    Thirty Years of Essays from the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program

    by Robert Atwan ...
    The University of Iowa is a leading light in the writing world. In addition to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop for poets and fiction writers, it houses the prestigious Nonfiction Writing Program (NWP), which was the first full-time masters-granting program in this genre in the United States. Over the past three decades the NWP has produced some of the most influential nonfiction writers in the country ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Nola

    A Memoir of Faith, Art, and Madness

    by Robin Hemley ...
    The evidence at hand: an autobiography—complete with their mother’s edits—written by his brilliant and disturbingly religious sister; a story featuring actual childhood events, but published by his mother as fiction; the transcript of a hypnotherapy session from his adolescence; and perjured court documents hidden in a drawer for decades. These are the clues Robin Hemley gathers when he sets out ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • How to Change History

    A Salvage Project

    by Robin Hemley ...
    In How to Change History Robin Hemley grapples with the individual’s navigation of history and the conflict between personal and public histories. In an attempt to restore, resurrect, and reclaim what might otherwise be lost, Hemley meditates and speculates on photography, scrapbooks, historical markers, travelogues, TV shows, real estate come-ons, washed up rock stars, incontinent dachshunds, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Do-Over!

    In which a forty-eight-year-old father of three returns to kindergarten, summer camp, the prom, and other embarrassments

    by Robin Hemley ...
    Robin Hemley's childhood made a wedgie of his memory, leaving him sore and embarrassed for over forty years. He was the most pitiful kindergartner, the least spirited summer camper, and dateless for prom. In fact, there's nary an event from his youth that couldn't use improvement. If only he could do them all over a few decades later, with an adult's wisdom, perspective, and giant-like height . . ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Art and Craft of Asian Stories

    A Writer's Guide and Anthology

    Series series Bloomsbury Writer's Guides and Anthologies
    An all-in-one craft guide and anthology, this is the first creative writing book to find inspiration and guidance in the diverse literary traditions of Asia. Including exemplary stories by leading writers from Japan, China, India, Singapore and beyond as well as those from Asian diasporas in Europe and America, The Art and Craft of Asian Stories offers an exciting take on the traditional how-to ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Borderline Citizen

    Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood

    by Robin Hemley ...
    Series series American Lives
    In Borderline Citizen Robin Hemley wrestles with what it means to be a citizen of the world, taking readers on a singular journey through the hinterlands of national identity. As a polygamist of place, Hemley celebrates Guy Fawkes Day in the contested Falkland Islands; Canada Day and the Fourth of July in the tiny U.S. exclave of Point Roberts, Washington; Russian Federation Day in the Russian ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Invented Eden

    The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday

    by Robin Hemley ...
    In 1971 Manual Elizalde, a Philippine government minister with a dubious background, discovered a band of twenty-six “Stone Age” rain-forest dwellers living in total isolation. The tribe was soon featured in American newscasts and graced the cover of National Geographic. But after a series of aborted anthropological ventures, the Tasaday Reserve established by Ferdinand Marcos was closed to ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A Field Guide for Immersion Writing

    Memoir, Journalism, and Travel

    by Robin Hemley ...
    For centuries writers have used participatory experience as a lens through which to better see the world at large and as a means of exploring the self. Considering various types of participatory writing as different strains of one style—immersion writing—Robin Hemley offers new perspectives and practical advice for writers of this nonfiction genre.Immersion writing can be broken down into the ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Audiobook

    Oblivion

    An After Autobiography

    by Robin Hemley ...
    Narrated by Peter Berkrot ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 48 min

    Where do writers go when they die?The forgotten ones, at least, go to the Café of Minor Authors where they drink endless cups of cappuccino, self-obsess, and nurse their shattered dreams. Some authors, it’s rumored, can escape Oblivion if they try hard enough to write something the universe can’t ignore, even after death.This is the story of one ambitious writer stuck in Oblivion who not only ... Read more

    $16.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus