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Books by Wendy Brenner






Flannery o'Connor Award for Short Fiction Ser.
Large Animals in Everyday Life
by Wendy Brenner
Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3422-6, ISBN: 0-8203-3422-7

"... The Edge ofMarriage Darrell Spencer, CAUTION Men in Trees Robert Anderson, Ice Age Bill Roorbach, Big Bend Dana Johnson, Break Any Woman Down Gina Ochsner, The Necessary Grace to Fall Kellie Wells, Compression Scars Eric ..."






Spinning Away from the Center
Stories about Homesickness and Homecoming from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Ser.)
by Ethan Laughman, Ed Allen, Wendy Brenner, David Crouse, Philip F. Deaver, Toni Graham, Mary Hood, Karin Lin-Greenberg, Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum, Becky Mandelbaum, C. M. Mayo, Christopher Mcilroy, Peter Meinke, Paul Rawlins, Monica Mcfawn Robinson, Hugh Sheehy, Siamak Vossoughi, Leigh Allison Wilson
Paperback, 274 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-5661-7, ISBN: 0-8203-5661-1

"These stories offer layered, perceptive takes on what home means to us. The people we meet in these stories are often traveling to and from home―thinking about where they have come from, where they are headed, and how that journey will impact their futures. Although the stories approach homecoming and homesickness through varied moods and styles, they all come around to confronting a shared need: a place to call home."






Phone Calls from the Dead(1st Edition)
by Wendy Brenner
Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2001 by Algonquin Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-56512-245-1, ISBN: 1-56512-245-3

" A bodybuilder is charged with superhuman energy and an ability to make lightbulbs explode. A grieving father tries to communicate with his dead son via a tape recorder. A high school girl claims to have her uncle's nipple in an envelope. A thirtysomething woman is fired from her dead-end job at Manpower and comes to understand her life through the experience of a German shepherd. Four ornery squirrels, tied together by their tails, str ..."






Large Animals in Everyday Life
by Wendy Brenner
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1997 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-31648-3, ISBN: 0-393-31648-3

"Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction, these stories are quirky takes on contemporary life in which animals, not always large, lurk around the edges. "I like animals and I like men" begins the hopelessly-in-love narrator of "The Round Bar," who follows her married country singer to Nashville in her own version of a down-and-out song. In "The Oysters," Pat Boone "not the Pat Boone" laments his love for his newly married ..."






Large Animals in Everyday Life(1st Edition)
Stories
by Wendy Brenner
Hardcover, 168 Pages, Published 1996 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-1794-6, ISBN: 0-8203-1794-2

"The eleven stories in Wendy Brenner's debut story collection concern people who are alone or feel themselves to be alone: survivors negotiating between logic and faith who look for mysterious messages and connections in everyday life, those sudden transformations and small miracles that occur in mundane, even absurd settings.Brenner's stories range in setting from the rural and southern (a rotating country music bar, a dog track/jai ala ..."






Large Animals in Everyday Life
Stories
by Wendy Brenner
168 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-4290-0, ISBN: 0-8203-4290-4

"Wendy Brenner. The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction • • • David Walton, Evening Out Leigh Allison Wilson, From the Bottom Up Sandra Thompson, Close-Ups Susan Neville, The Invention ofFlight Mary Hood, How Far She Went ... Philip F. Deaver, Silent Retreats Gail Galloway Adams, The Purchase of Order Carole L. Glickfeld, Useful Gifts Antonya Nelson, The Expendables Nancy Zafris, The People I Know Debra Monroe, The Source of ..."






Phone Calls from the Dead
by Wendy Brenner
240 Pages, Published 2001 by Algonquin Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-56512-812-5, ISBN: 1-56512-812-5

"Wendy Brenner. “Why does Sonny care if you like this old ugly crazy straight guy ?” Eddie said. “Does he want him?” “No, Sonny's got a girlfriend,” I said. “Though she does look like a boy. Or a praying mantis.” “Wait!” Owen yelled. “This guy ..."






Fairy Tale Review, The Green Issue(1st Edition)
by Kate Bernheimer, Contributor-Brian Baldi, Contributor-Jedediah Berry, Contributor-Paula Bohince, Contributor-Wendy Brenner, Contributor-Rikki Ducornet, Contributor-Johannes Goransson, Contributor-Ann Jaderlund, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, Ayse Papatya Bucack, Daniel Khalastchi, Stacey Levine, Cate Marvin, Joyelle Mcsweeney, Kat Meads, Lydia Millet, Andrew Morgan, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Stacey Richter, Arthur Rimbaud, Carmen Giminez Smith, Donna Tartt, Kate Susan Bernheimer
Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 2007 by University Alabama Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-5501-2, ISBN: 0-8173-5501-4

"This title presents an annual journal devoted to fairy tales, contemporary and historical.Each issue of "Fairy Tale Review" contains poetry, fiction, and essays that either address the abiding influence of fairy tales on contemporary literature and culture, or are themselves contemporary fairy tales in prose or verse. It is, according to editor Kate Bernheimer, "a venue for all writers working with the aesthetics and motifs of fairy tal ..."






The Oxford American Book of Great Music Writing
by Marc Smirnoff, Van Dyke Parks, Wendy Brenner, Tom Piazza, Peter Guralnick, R. Crumb
Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Arkansas Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-55728-950-6, ISBN: 1-55728-950-6

"Not only have a breathtaking array of musical giants come from the South--think Elvis Presley, Robert Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Jimmie Rodgers, to name just obvious examples--but so have a breathtaking array of American music genres. From blues to rock & roll to jazz to country to bluegrass--and areas in between--it all started in the American South. Since its debut in 1996, The Oxford American's more-or-less annual Southern Music Issue ..."






Show & Tell(5th Edition)
Writers on Writing
by Clyde Edgerton, Publishing Laboratory, Philip Gerard, Wendy Brenner
Paperback, 310 Pages, Published 2006 by Publishing Laboratory Of Unc Wilmington
ISBN-13: 978-0-9719308-9-6, ISBN: 0-9719308-9-9

"In this collection of excerpts and essays by the creative writing faculty of the University of North Carolina Wilmington, the varied genres of the contemporary literary scene are considered and celebrated. Now in its fifth edition, Show & Tell is designed both as a text for apprentice writers and a guide for apprentice teachers. Show & Tell has wide application in the workshop and classroom as well as for personal study, as a point of e ..."






A Day's Pay
Stories about Work from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
by Ethan Laughman, Wendy Brenner, David Crouse, Alfred Depew, Melinda Moustakis, Gina Ochsner, Robert Abel, Andy Plattner, Frank Soos, Nancy Zafris, Carole L. Glickfeld, Dennis Hathaway, Peter Lasalle, Randy F. Nelson, Monica Mcfawn Robinson, Eric Shade
Paperback, 270 Pages, Published 2020 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-5839-0, ISBN: 0-8203-5839-8

"Work, and the coffee-fueled day-to-day grind, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction series."






True Places
by Wendy Brenner
63 Pages, Published 2017
ISBN-13: 978-0-9986490-1-6, ISBN: 0-9986490-1-5






27 Views of Wilmington
The Port City in Prose & Poetry
by Celia Rivenbark, Emily Louise Smith, Rhonda Bellamy, Melodie Homer, Robert Anthony Siegel, Celia Rivenbark
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2015 by Eno Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-9896092-3-4, ISBN: 0-9896092-3-5

"27 Views of Wilmington: The Port City in Prose & Poetry is the latest in Eno's popular series of local anthologies. The book showcases the literary life of one of North Carolina's most popular cities by featuring the works of more than two dozen hometown writers. The result is a mosaic of perspectives about life in the Port City in a variety of genres--journalism, history, fiction, poetry, and more. To date, contributors include Wiley C ..."






Hold That Knowledge
Stories about Love from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
by Laughman, Ethan, Adams, Gail Galloway, Ardizzone, Tony, Brenner, Wendy, Curley, Daniel, Grover, Linda LeGarde, Hathaway, Dennis, Kaplan, Hester, McIlroy, Christopher, Monroe, Debra, Panning, Anne, Roorbach, Bill, Singer, Margot, Thompson, Sandra, Vossoughi, iamak
260 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Georgia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-5528-3, ISBN: 0-8203-5528-3






This Place(1st Edition)
by Aa. Vv., Charlotte Cotton, Frédéric Brenner, Martin Kollar, Josef Koudelka, Jungjin Lee, Stephen Shore, Rosalind Fox Solomon, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall, Nick Waplington, Izabella Scott, Shela Sheikh
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2014 by Mack
ISBN-13: 978-1-910164-13-6, ISBN: 1-910164-13-5






Flash Nonfiction Funny
71 Very Humorous, Very True, Very Short Stories
by Brian Doyle, Tom Hazuka, Kim Addonizio, Douglass Bourne, Caitlin Brady, Wendy Brenner, Mark Budman, Dani Burlison, Ron Carlson, Ashley Chantler, Mary Collins, Josh Couvares, Marcia Aldrich, Gina Barreca, Paul Beckman, Brian Bedard, Chelsea Biondolillo, Sven Birkerts, Dinty W. Moore, Liane Kupferberg Carter
Paperback, 204 Pages, Published 2018 by Woodhall Press Llp
ISBN-13: 978-0-9975437-4-2, ISBN: 0-9975437-4-4

"The seventy-one flash essays collected here are hilarious proof that you don't need more than 750 words to laugh out loud. Featuring both established and up-and-coming writers, these essays are no flashes in the pan--they demonstrate careful attention to craft and exploration: everything you want in a thoughtful essay, only shorter. This collection is perfect for students of writing and comedy--and for anybody who appreciates a good lau ..."

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