Michael Gessner

The Writers' Circle and Other Stories Michael Gessner

Fiction. In this stunning collection Michael Gessner pays full attention to the marginal and the marginalized--whether unwashed, rejected, condemned, or simply unusual--and brilliantly inhabits them, evoking their passions, their yearnings, and also the rare strands of hope that sustain and illuminate.--Grace Dane Mazur

THE WRITERS' CIRCLE AND OTHER STORIES by Michael Gessner is a celebration of life's texture of existence. Through profound empathy, each story has radiance, a voice that is alive, a language in bloom, which enunciates a ferocious intelligence, which is both strange and familiar in a way that is entirely compassionate, examining, and inspiring. Gessner's post-noir writing is adroit, sophisticated, and at times astounding.--Geoffrey Gatza