The Logic of Flesh and Other Stories

THE LOGIC OF FLESH and other stories is a gathering of new and previously uncollected stories with a wide selection of voices, characters and perspectives all united by Midwestern rural and urban setting from the 1940's through the 1970's. Th e stories range for graphic realism to the lyrical and poetic, from the colloquial to the reflective and satiric. Off beat and idiosyncratic, the characters occupy a world apart from main stream fiction and will strike the reader as refreshingly original.

NORVAL RINDFLEISCH, whose short stories have won an O. Henry Award and have been recognized in the "Roll of Honor" and "List of Distribution" in BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES, was born in Los Angeles and raised near St. Paul, the setting of many of his stories published in literary journals such as EPOCH, THE YALE LITERARY MAGAZINE and THE NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND REVIEW. The title story of his first collection of fiction IN LOVELESS CLARITY was included in THE NORTH COUNTRY READER, an anthology of selected prose with Minnesota characters and setting (Minnesota History Society press. Sept. 2000). He received undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Chicago. Since then he has spend over thirty years teaching in independent schools, primarily in New England. He has also been active in programs of the National Writing Project in California and New Hampshire. From 1981 to 1990 the author was the Lewis Perry Professor in the Humanities at Phillips Exeter Academy.