Jonathan Baumbach

Jonathan Baumbach is the author of fourteen books of fiction, including You, or The Invention of Memory; On The Way To My Father's Funeral: New and Selected Stories; B, A Novel; D-Tours; Separate Hours; Chez Charlotte and Emily; The Life and Times of Major Fiction; Reruns; Babble; and A Man to Conjure With. He has also published over ninety stories published in such places as Esquire, Open City, and Boulevard.

Baumbach, co-founder of The Fiction Collective in 1973, the first fiction writers cooperative in America, has seen his work widely praised. His short stories have been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, The PEN / O.Henry Prize, and The Best of TriQuarterly. The New York Times Book Review referred to him in 2004 as "an underappreciated writer." He employs a masterfully dispassionate, fiercely intelligent narrative voice whose seeming objectivity is always a faltering front for secret passion and despair."



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Dreams of Molly

Jonathan Baumbach 

Release Date: April 19, 2011
ISBN: 978-0982797532

Price: $15.95

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A staple in the literary scene for over forty years, Baumbach's latest novel, Dreams of Molly, is a wonderful addition to his oeuvre. A love story as only Baumbach can write, it is filled with the longings and lingerings, sex and deprivation, humor and heartache as well as the New York nuances that have driven Baumbach's fiction from the start. As in past Baumbach novels, Dreams of Molly creates a life invented in dreams.

PRAISE FOR DREAMS OF MOLLY

"A knock at the door of memory, and everything answers, all the more we didn't know we really did want to know. A beautiful book." —Joseph McElroy

"It's comic, almost zany in tone, with a plot that is suspenseful even as it resists interpretation; reading it feels a bit like watching a David Lynch film." —Hannah Gersen, New York Observer

 

PRAISE FOR JONATHAN BAUMBACH

"Jonathan Baumbach has been a hero of mine since I started writing. I was then, and remain today, avid for novelists who push the limits of the novel's form without sacrificing its traditional human juices. Baumbach is just such a writer." —Michael Cunningham

"Many of us who love contemporary fiction know that Jonathan Baumbach has been doing work of the first order for years..." —Russell Banks

"In all of Jonathan Baumbach's fiction, there is a wonderful balance of ease and authority, subtlety and surprise, wisdom and playfulness... He's one of my favorite writers." —Robert Coover