Local Author To Read at Brookline Booksmith May 29

Local author, John Fulton, will have his fourth book of fiction, “The Flounder and Other Stories,” published on May 27 from Blackwater Press. Fulton will be talking about and reading from ‘The Flounder’ with fellow local writer Daphne Kalotay at the Brookline Booksmith on May 29 from 7-8 PM, and giving a second reading with fellow local writer Jennifer Haigh at our neighborhood bookstore Papercuts on June 8 from 6:30-7:30 PM. 

‘The Flounder’ is a book about the riddles of desire, youth, old age, poverty, and wealth that are laid bare in this radiant collection from a master of the form. From inner-city pawnshops to high-powered law firms, from the desert of California to the coast of France, The Flounder paints a vivid portrait of how complex and poignant everyday life can be. Told in vibrant, incantatory prose, these moving, lyrical, and surprising stories teeter between desperation and hope, with Fulton showing us what lasts in an impermanent world

John Fulton is the author of three other books of fiction: The Animal Girl (LSU), which was long listed for the Story Prize, Retribution (Picador), which won the Southern Review Fiction Prize, and the novel More Than Enough (Vintage), a Barnes and Noble’s Discover Great New Writers selection. His short fiction has been awarded the Pushcart Prize, cited for distinction in The Best American Short Stories, and been published in Zoetrope, The Sun, Ploughshares, and The Missouri Review, among other venues. He lives with his family in Jamaica Plain for the past 20 years, where he directs the Master of Fine Arts program  in Creative Writing. at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

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