Great Pyramids: Collected StoriesFrederick Barthelmes fiction portrays the immensity of feeling that saturates the uneventful details of ordinary life. From parking lots to grocery stores, and swimming pools to morning traffic, the inner landscape of Barthelmes characters is one of underlying tension arising from the seemingly mundane. Meaning breaks down and is doubled, and becomes a representation of the small in between spaceslyrical, mysterious, ordinarywithin the routines of

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She deftly dissects how we get coerced into silence on the issues that matter most

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and revolutionary struggle

and the tumultuous life of Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich amidst Stalinist oppression

One mistake drives Ryan out of middle school and into the juvenile justice pipeline

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the best-selling author of Stiff turns her outrageous curiosity and insight on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex

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