David Jauss

Nice People: New & Selected Stories II

A companion volume to Glossolalia: New & Selected Stories, Nice People contains revisions of four works from previous collections, including the novella "Last Rites," and nine new stories. The book can be ordered at https://www.press53.com/short-fiction/nice-people-by-david-jauss

SELECTED WORKS

ESSAY COLLECTIONS

Alone With All That Could Happen: On Writing Fiction (Revised & Expanded Edition)

Eight essays on such subjects as writing what you don't know, point of view, plot, the music of syntax, epiphanies, structuring story collections, and the role of contradiction in the creative process. (To read excerpts from these essays, please click on the title above.)

FICTION COLLECTIONS

Nice People: New & Selected Stories II

A companion volume to Glossolalia: New & Selected Stories, Nice People contains revisions of four works from previous collections, including the novella "Last Rites," and nine new stories.

Glossolalia: New & Selected Stories

11 stories from previous collections plus 6 new stories.

Black Maps

Winner of the AWP Award for Short Fiction.
"Black Maps is a moving, impressive, deeply rewarding collection from a very talented writer."--Lorrie Moore
(To read excerpts, please click on the title above.)

Crimes of Passion

"The stories are executed with verve and wit, and one of them--'Shards'--is terrifying enough to have vexed my sleep for two nights running. A fine collection."--Tobias Wolff (To read excerpts, please click on the title above.)

POETRY COLLECTIONS

You Are Not Here

Winner of the Fleur-de-Lis Press National Poetry Book Competition.

"Compassion, humor, restless intelligence, and flawless technique come together brilliantly in You Are Not Here to create poems of real tenderness and classical restraint."--Maura Stanton

(To read excerpts, please click on the title above.)

Improvising Rivers

"Jauss sees the exercise of style as a form of pilgrimage to the human heart. And he knows the heart in all of its intricacies, misery, and splendor. It is hardly the fashion anymore to label a book as noble--but no other word will suffice."--David Wojahn (To read excerpts, please click on the title above.)

ANTHOLOGIES

Words Overflown by Stars: Creative Writing Instruction and Insight from the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA Program

Thirty-two essays on the craft of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction by past and present faculty of the acclaimed Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program. (For the Table of Contents and an excerpt from the Preface, please click on the title above.)

Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional Forms

A showcase for the finest contemporary examples of nearly 75 traditional forms, ranging from ballads and sonnets to kyrielles and pantoums, by nearly 200 poets, this anthology demonstrates how today's poets have experimented with the old forms to make them "new" and relevant to our times. (To read an excerpt, please click on the title above.)

MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS AND INTERVIEWS

Miscellaneous Essays and Interviews

Selected essays and interviews on the West Memphis Three, the craft of writing, jazz poetry, minimalism, Anton Chekhov, Flannery O'Connor, William Carlos Williams, James Wright, Stephen Dunn, Lynda Hull, and other writers and subjects. (To read excerpts, please click on heading above.)

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