20 Over 60 (Paperback)

As Madeleine L'Engle once observed, "The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been." In <i>20 over 60</i>, editors Beth Weinhouse and David Galef showcase twenty brilliant short stories by authors over sixty, including luminaries such as Paul Theroux, Joyce Carol Oates, and Jane Gardam, offering a wide-ranging portrait of life in later years: vibrant, unexpected, and full of humor, wisdom, and surprise. Readers will encounter a retired couple whose hobby is stealing peppermills from restaurants, a woman juggling both her husband and ex-husband in the same hospital, a futuristic nursing home whose designers become its unhappy residents, a woman of a certain age navigating the perils of online dating, and a grandfather helping his granddaughter scatter her mother's ashes. Smart, skillful, and often hilarious, these stories celebrate the full spectrum of experience, proving that life after sixty is as rich and alive as ever.<br> <br>Other authors in the collection: Lois Ann Abraham, K. G. Anderson, Richard Bausch, Nicholas Delbanco, Lesley Dormen, Nancy J. Fagan, David Galef, Rebecca Keller, Lisa Williams Kline, Joan Steinau Lester, Carolyn Lieberg, Maisie McAdoo, Eileen Pollack, Robert Shapard, sid sibo, A. R. Taylor, and Joyce M. Yaeger.

David Galef has published over a dozen books, including the novel Flesh, the short story collection My Date with Neanderthal Woman, the children's book Tracks, Japanese Proverbs: Wit and Wisdom, and Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook. Day job: English professor and creative writing program director at Montclair State University. He's also the editor of Vestal Review, the longest-running flash fiction magazine on the planet. Find him at Beth Weinhouse has been an editor at many mainstream magazines, including Self, Parenting, Prevention, Redbook, and Reader's Digest. She's written feature articles and book reviews for New York Newsday, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Travel & Leisure, Town & Country, Columbia Magazine, and more. Her first book was The Healthy Traveler, about maintaining health away from home. Her second book, co-written with Leslie Laurence, was Outrageous Practices, about how gender bias can threaten women's health.