Ted Gilley’s short story collection, winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, maps grief’s breathless journey from haunted to home safe. …more

In this prize-winning collection of linked stories, outcasts and fuckups “dodge what dangers they can to survive in the midst of their aching loneliness.” …more

“I like to go where the life is.  I’m pro-life, in the sense that chaos seems like life to me and order seems like death.  I’m of the people in the bar and the people in my stories.  They are my tribe.” – The Rumpus interviews the National Book Award finalist. …more

“All of us, all the time, are searching for some order in the world/universe/our lives. We’re searching for guiding principles and explanations. Especially in times of stress, we tend to find sayings, aphorisms, mantras to help guide us.” …more