On the Way to My Father's Funeral: New & Selected Stories - Softcover

Baumbach, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0972336338 ISBN 13: 9780972336338

Publisher: Low Fidelity Press, 2005

Synopsis

Here are thirteen new stories and Baumbach's selected, which have appeared in such diverse compilations as Full Court: A Literary Anthology of Basketball, On the Couch: Great American Stories About Therapy, Transgressions: The Iowa Anthology of Innovative Fiction, Byrne's Book of Great Pool Stories, Show Me a Hero: Great Contemporary Stories about Sports, The Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories--collected together for the first time. Whether they star a mild-mannered psychologist with a fondness for female patients or a King Kong-like giant ape with a human-sized penis or a female patient with a fondness for mild-mannered psychologists, Baumbach consistently reinvents traditional character-type and the traditional story.

About this title

About the Author

Known mainly for his novels, Jonathan Baumbach came to the short story later than many of his contemporaries for whom the shorter form was an apprenticeship to the more imposing task of making a novel. For Baumbach, the story represented another equally important way of playing out the private/public game of the imagination. Over the years the earliest story in this collection is from 1972, the latest from 2003--Baumbach's short fiction has appeared in such places as American Review, TriQuarterly, Iowa Review, Esquire, Boulevard, Partisan Review, Fiction International, Antaeus, and Mississippi Review among others. His novels include Reruns, Babble, Chez Charlotte and Emily, Seven Wives, D-Tours, and B. He has taught fiction writing at Princeton, NYU, Brown, Columbia, The University of Washington, The Ohio State University, Tufts, The New School, and Brooklyn College where he directed the MFA in fiction writing for almost 30 years until his retirement in 2000. He has written extensively about film and is a former chairman of the National Society of Film Critics. This is his third collection of short fiction and his first to bring together early and recent work in the same volume.

Edition details

• Publisher: Low Fidelity Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0972336338
• ISBN 13: 9780972336338
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 410