These stories offer a vivid glimpse of the lives of Rust Belt inhabitants. “Everything with a beating heart knows when aloneness has come to stay,” says a married woman... Read More

Hardcore journalism meets the neighborhood gossip in this innovative collection of twelve short stories. Told secondhand and infused with a storyteller’s voice, "A Room of... Read More

Characters grope for meaning amid emotional and moral crises in complex, atmospheric stories. The lives of boys and men are fraught with imperfection and shortcomings in our... Read More

Gary Fincke has published sixteen previous books of poetry and short fiction. His new book of poems, "The Fire Landscape", explores with almost radioactive language the dangers... Read More