Single-Sentence Stories

by Harold Jaffe, Tom Whalen

Overview

How much dexterity does a writer need to write a "story" in a single sentence? In their virtuosic collection, brevity masters Harold Jaffe and Tom Whalen, drawing from a host of injustices currently at play on our teetering earth, meet this challenge with a variety of formal strategies: prose poems, micro-fictions, creation myths, pensées, headlines, fables, fragments, quotations, and graffiti. With its nuanced, often antiphonal structure, readers of Single-Sentence Stories will be engaged, entertained and informed by this unique collaboration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781959556763
Publisher:	Spuyten Duyvil
Publication date:	08/08/2023
Pages:	356
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Harold Jaffe is the author of 30-plus novels, essays, short fiction, docufiction, and drama. His writings include Porn-anti-Porn; Death Cafe; Induced Coma; 15 Serial Killers; Dos Indios; Anti-Twitter; Strange Fruit and Other plays; Jesus Coyote; Brando Bleeds; Madonna & Other Spectacles; and Beyond the Techno-Cave. His work has been translated into French, Italian, German, Japanese, Turkish, and Serbo-Croatian.

Tom Whalen is a novelist, short story writer, poet, critic and translator of two books by Robert Walser, Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories and Little Snow Landscape (NYRB Classics). His work has appeared in Agni, Bookforum, The Brooklyn Rail, Film Quarterly, Georgia Review, Harper's, The Literary Review, The Missouri Review, The Paris Review, as well as several anthologies including Sudden Fiction, Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present and The Book of Eros.