{"product_id":"flash-gardens-and-other-short-anna-faktorovich-9781681146010","title":"Flash Gardens, and Other Short Fiction: Volume Two","description":"Volume Two of \u003ci\u003eFlash Gardens and Short Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e resumes the compilation of fiction begun in Volume One, with more independently published, self-contained excerpts from longer works. If the focus of Volume One was, overall, melancholic remembrance of things past and forays into nostalgia, Volume Two, while echoing that focus, contains more comic material, ranging from dark humor to outright slapstick. The author maintains that fiction and poetry are endemically autobiographical in that every thought process abetting their creation filters through an individual mind with its singular, subjective peccadillos, biases, nuances and impressions. This applies to work that seems \"objective\", as is the case with some of the historically based work in this volume. Again, New Orleans and southwest Virginia remain the settings or locales for the stories; and the dramatis personae resemble real people the author knows or has known. Some of the New Orleans excerpts will challenge readers unfamiliar with the local patois and dialect of that mythic city, but the author has attempted to render them faithfully, as he recollects them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe seven volumes of Louis Gallo's poetry are \u003ci\u003eArchaeology, Scherzo Furiant, Crash, Clearing the Attic, Ghostly Demarcation \u0026amp; The Pandemic Papers, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhy Is There Something Rather than Nothing? \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Leeway \u0026amp; Advent\u003c\/i\u003e. His work appeared in Best Short Fiction 2020. A novella, \"The Art Deco Lung\", appeared in \u003ci\u003eStorylandia\u003c\/i\u003e. National Public Radio aired a reading and discussion of his poetry on its \"With Good Reason\" series (December 2020). His work has appeared or will shortly appear in \u003ci\u003eWide Awake in the Pelican State\u003c\/i\u003e (LSU anthology), \u003ci\u003eSouthern Literary Review, Fiction Fix, Glimmer Train, Hollins Critic, Rattle, Southern Quarterly, Litro, New Orleans Review, Xavier Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Missouri Review, Mississippi Review, Texas Review, Baltimore Review, Pennsylvania Literary Journal, The Ledge, storySouth, Houston Literary Review, Tampa Review, Raving Dove, The Journal (Ohio), Greensboro Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and many others. Chapbooks include \u003ci\u003eThe Truth Changes, The Abomination of Fascination, Status Updates and The Ten Most Important Questions of the Twentieth Century. \u003c\/i\u003eHe is the founding editor of the now defunct journals, \u003ci\u003eThe Barataria Review\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Books: A New Orleans Review\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize several times. He is the recipient of NEA grants for Fiction and Poet in the Schools. He teaches at Radford University in Radford, Virginia. He is a native of New Orleans.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anna Faktorovich,Louis Gallo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1681146010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681146010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anaphora Literary Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/07\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d","brand":"Anna Faktorovich","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48995982442751,"sku":"9781681146010","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/flash-gardens-and-other-short-anna-faktorovich-9781681146010","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}