Gail Rosenblum reads from A Hundred Lives Since Then: Essays on Motherhood, Marriage, Mortality and More--7:30pm, Monday, June 6, at Magers & Quinn.Gail Rosenblum has gathered a collection of her wry observations on a host of experiences ranging from home remodeling and a parent’s late-life romance to a child’s show-and-tell and the neighborhood book club. … Continue reading One Tough Mother

"Each story reads like a mini-novel because the paragraphs pack a punch; worlds are contained in a single page. And the writing ... oh, the writing."--San Francisco ChronicleRobin Black’s short stories are populated with men and women who face losses both real and unexpected. A philandering father learns the limits of his ability to fool … Continue reading "And the writing … oh, the writing."

A rock-star line-up of writers comes to Magers & Quinn. It’s a triple bill of great authors—with no cover charge. John Jodzio, Dessa, and David Philip Mullins read from their short stories at 7:30pm, Thursday, June 2.Yoga stalkers, guns and gold, babies with iron stomachs, drunkards with t-shirt cannons, and warlocks--lots of warlocks—populate John Jodzio’s … Continue reading Flash! Fiction!