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The format is approximately 5 inches by 7.5 inches. 130, [2] pages. RARE Surviving copy of multi-signed anthology (small press) Signed by each of the five authors at their story on the Contents page! The stories are A Country Where You Once Lived (Black); Lion and Panther in London (James); The Strange Career of Dr. Raju Gopalarajan (Parameswaran); Cretan Love Song (Shepard); and Standard Loneliness Package (Yu). Jim Shepard (born 1956) is an American novelist and short story writer, who teaches creative writing and film at Williams College. Shepard's work has been published in McSweeney's, Granta, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Harper's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Triquarterly, and Playboy. His short story collection â " Like You'd Understand, Anyway â " won the Story Prize in 2007, and was nominated for a National Book Award in 2007. The novel Project X won the 2005 Massachusetts Book Award. Along with writing novels and short stories, Shepard has also drafted two screenplays, one about Kenneth Donaldson and the O'Connor v. Donaldson case, and the other a movie adaptation of Project X. Shepard is the winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story (2016). Charles Chowkai Yu (born January 3, 1976) is an American writer. He is the author of the novels How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe and Interior Chinatown, and the short-story collections Third Class Superhero and Sorry Please Thank You. In 2007 he was named a "5 under 35" honoree by the National Book Foundation. Interior Chinatown won the National Book Award for fiction (2020). Robin Black's story collection, If I loved you, I would tell you this, was a finalist for the Frank O'Connor International Story Prize, and named a Best Book of 2010 by numerous publications, including the Irish Times. Her novel, Life Drawing, was longlisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, the Impac Dublin Literature Prize, and the Folio Prize. Her fiction has been translated into Italian, French, German, and Dutch. Robin's most recent book is Crash Course: Essays From Where Writing And Life Collide. Robin's work can be found in such publications as One Story, The New York Times Book Review, The Chicago Tribune, Southern Review, The Rumpus, O. Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler UK, and numerous anthologies, including The Best Creative Nonfiction Vol. I (Norton) and The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review. TANIA JAMES is the author of four works of fiction, all published by Knopf: The Tusk That Did the Damage, which was a finalist for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and the Financial Times Oppenheimer Award; Aerogrammes and Other Stories, named a Best Book of 2012 by Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, and The San Francisco Chronicle; and the novel Atlas of Unknowns, which was a New York Times Editor's Choice and a finalist for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Her short stories have appeared in Freeman's: The Future of New Writing; Granta; The New Yorker; O, The Oprah Magazine; and One Story, among other places, and featured on Symphony Space Selected Shorts. Rajesh Parameswaran is a fiction writer and author of the short story collection I Am an Executioner: Love Stories (Knopf, 2012). His work has appeared in The Best American Magazine Writing, Fiction, Granta, McSweeney's, and Zoetrope: All-Story.
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