Frozen in Time: Twenty Stories
The estimable Joseph Epstein—essayist, past editor of The American Scholar, and recipient of the 2003 National Humanities Medal along with Hal Holbrook and John Updike—brings together twenty short stories in his first such collection since 2010. Most, though not all, of the stories are set in Epstein’s hometown of Chicago, but otherwise they have a variety of subjects: among the titles are "Dad's Gay," "The Casanova of LaSalle Street," "JDate," "Adultery," "Widow's Pique," "Race Relations," "The Man on Whom Everything Was Lost," "My Five Husbands," and "Second Family." Most are stories about family and friendships.
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Frozen in Time: Twenty Stories
The estimable Joseph Epstein—essayist, past editor of The American Scholar, and recipient of the 2003 National Humanities Medal along with Hal Holbrook and John Updike—brings together twenty short stories in his first such collection since 2010. Most, though not all, of the stories are set in Epstein’s hometown of Chicago, but otherwise they have a variety of subjects: among the titles are "Dad's Gay," "The Casanova of LaSalle Street," "JDate," "Adultery," "Widow's Pique," "Race Relations," "The Man on Whom Everything Was Lost," "My Five Husbands," and "Second Family." Most are stories about family and friendships.
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Frozen in Time: Twenty Stories

Frozen in Time: Twenty Stories

by Joseph Epstein
Frozen in Time: Twenty Stories

Frozen in Time: Twenty Stories

by Joseph Epstein

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The estimable Joseph Epstein—essayist, past editor of The American Scholar, and recipient of the 2003 National Humanities Medal along with Hal Holbrook and John Updike—brings together twenty short stories in his first such collection since 2010. Most, though not all, of the stories are set in Epstein’s hometown of Chicago, but otherwise they have a variety of subjects: among the titles are "Dad's Gay," "The Casanova of LaSalle Street," "JDate," "Adultery," "Widow's Pique," "Race Relations," "The Man on Whom Everything Was Lost," "My Five Husbands," and "Second Family." Most are stories about family and friendships.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781630761943
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Publication date: 04/15/2016
Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

About The Author
Joseph Epstein is an essayist, short story writer, and editor, and from 1974 to 1998 the editor of the Phi Beta Kappa Society's The American Scholar magazine. He was also a lecturer at Northwestern University from 1974 to 2002. He is a Contributing Editor at The Weekly Standard and a long-time contributor of essays and short stories to The New Criterion, Commentary, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and The Wall Street Journal. In 2003, he was awarded a National Humanities Medal by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Table of Contents

Sandy in Her Tub 1

Arnheim & Sons 15

Oh, Billy, Where Are You? 27

Dad's Gay 43

Out of Action 55

Wild about Harry 73

Widow's Pique 85

Second Family 97

Remittance Man 109

My Five Husbands 121

Irwin Isaac Meiselman 139

Adultery? 153

Onto A Good Thing 163

Race Relations 175

The Casanova of Lasalle Street 193

Kizerman and Feigenbaum 205

The Man on Whom Everything Was Lost 221

The Bernie Klepner Show 233

The Viagra Triangle 247

Jdate 257

About the Author 273

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