Results for "Brockmeier, Kevin"

Ghost stories tap into our most primal emotions as they encourage us to confront the timeless question: What comes after death? Here, in tales that are by turn scary, funny, philosophic, and touching, you’ll find that question sharpened, split, reconsidered—and met with a multitude of answers. &nbs... Read More about The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories

From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between.   The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by the living. They will reside in this afterlife... Read More about The Brief History of the Dead (Vintage Contemporaries)

The Masters Review Volume IV - Finalist INDIEFAB Award The best short stories by emerging writers. This year's volume showcases fiction selected by bestselling author, Kevin Brockmeier. A man is hired to snuggle, teenagers grow wings, young boys embark on a road trip to steal from their mother. As ... Read More about The Masters Review Volume IV with Stories Selected by Kevin Brockmeier

Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, The Seattle Times, The Kansas City Star, and Philadelphia City Paper  What if our pain was the most beautiful thing about us? At 8:17 on a Friday night, the Illumination begins. Every wound begins to shine, every bruise to glow and shimmer. A... Read More about The Illumination (Vintage Contemporaries)

Peering into the often unnoticed corners of life, Kevin Brockmeier has been consistently praised for the originality of his vision, the boundlessness of his imagination and the command of his craft. Once again, in this new collection of fiction, Brockmeier shows us a fantastical world that is intima... Read More about The View From the Seventh Layer (Vintage Contemporaries)

At age twelve, Kevin Brockmeier is ready to become a different person: not the boy he has always been—the one who cries too easily and laughs too easily, who lives in an otherland of sparkling daydreams and imaginary catastrophes—but someone else altogether. Over the course of one school year—s... Read More about A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of Seventh Grade