PRAISE FOR PHILLY FICTION!!
"I liked every one of the tales in this anthology. . . . Philly Fiction rocks: Buy your own copy and see." --Philadelphia Inquirer, 9/6/06. Read Susan Balee's whole review on the blog!
“[T]he writing sings; in “The Shanghai Ship to Love,†Edward P. Clapp hilariously describes a trip on the Chinatown Express. There’s genuine emotion in Michael Aronovitz’s “The Big Picture†. . .. In Greg November’s “Dinnertime at 42B,†a loser pays a hooker for her company, but the woman isn’t pretty, and the ending isn’t Hollywood. Welcome to Philadelphia.â€---Philadelphia Magazine, Best of 2006 issue.
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Philly Fiction is a collection of short stories highlighting Philadelphia as a city of literary inspiration. Whimsical, inventive, and profound, these tales set in the City of Brotherly Love paint insightful portraits of contemporary life. A girl comes of age among the stoop-sitters of a working-class neighborhood; a divorcé moves to Philadelphia and finds meaning in the words of a stranger; a gardener struggles against the deer of Fairmount Park; a barfly seeks solace watching pizzas delivered to a brothel; an unlikely pair try to mend a lost friendship in the face of imminent death; a neurotic discovers love on the dance floor. These must-read stories from established and up-and-coming writers will captivate and delight you, whether you grew up in Philadelphia or have yet to make your first visit.
Excerpt: “The women head on out like always, in that hour when the day goes from light to dark and their kids crowd into the street to play halfball and their teenagers take off in loud cars and tight clothes and their men, if they’ve still got them, settle into the couch in front of the Phillies game and the lightning bugs fire up all over and the smells of dinners still hang like glue in the sweat-thick Philly June air.â€
—Elise Juska, “The Stoop-sittersâ€
