Three short novels relate the stories of a mother who is incapable of loving her daughter, a man whose millennial canonization depends upon twenty testimonial letters, and an expatriate American who revisits her Southern roots. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Mara is a translator. In her Greenwich Village apartment she successfully renders her native Czech into best-selling English, until one fine night she notices alarming similarities between her own Prague childhood and a "brilliant novel" by a rising young star of Czech literature...read more

Product Description: In a yearly ritual the citizens of ancient Athens chased a couple in wedding regalia through the streets under a hail of stones, to shouts of "Out with sickness and famine! In with health and wealth!" The broken bodies were left to decompose outside the city gates...read more

Tells the stories of twenty-nine women, including Charlotte Corday, Joan of Arc, Clara Schumann, Simone Weil, and Adele Hugo

Product Description: Fugitive drug dealers and disincarnated spirits, vengeful lovers and rebel slaves, French executioners and runaway aristocrats populate the stories of this new collection by Ursule Molinaro. Representing Molinaro’s most exceptional short fiction of the last twenty years, these mesmerizing tales take us into private worlds where the bizarre is a quietly insistent force and "extreme states of mind can be hidden from ordinary perception and from one’s own consciousness...read more

Product Description: After twelve years a young woman returns home to settle accounts with her doformed twin sister Laura. But Laura is inexplicably absent, and the visiting daughter's parents are enmeshed in their own emotional warfare. With the deceptive simplicity that has become Molinaro's literary hallmark, the stage is set for an explosive confrontation as the parents and visiting daughter take their positions around the traditional family table, with its centerpiece, an elegant arrangement of white roses...read more

Product Description: a woman's life reconstructed from papers thrown into a garbage can on 8th St. and Avenue B. The collages created by John Evans are made from these.

Product Description: Needlepoint is a short story entirely written in dialogue. It permits readers to picture their favorite elderly couple sitting at dinner, needling each other about the past U.M.

Product Description: "Top Stories" was a prose periodical specializing in writing by women authors that was published as a chapbook series from 1978-1991, issues#1-#29. "Top Stories", founded & edited by Anne Turyn, featured experimental fiction, art, photography, & graphics, and has forecast some of the most progressive writers & artists of the '80s and '90s (see topstoriesperiodical...read more

Product Description: After twelve years a young woman returns home to settle accounts with her doformed twin sister Laura. But Laura is inexplicably absent, and the visiting daughter's parents are enmeshed in their own emotional warfare. With the deceptive simplicity that has become Molinaro's literary hallmark, the stage is set for an explosive confrontation as the parents and visiting daughter take their positions around the traditional family table, with its centerpiece, an elegant arrangement of white roses...read more