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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The rEprint Series presents:
Jonathan Baumbach

 

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The Return of Service

Jonathan Baumbach

Release Date: May 22, 2012

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Baumbach experiments with various structures for fiction, including the sub-genre parodies, movie mythologies, and dreamlike obsessions which are featured throughout this story collection, The Return of Service.


PRAISE

"He's an exceptional writer, one of the best I know--inventive, controlled, witty, sensitive, a great risk-taker who seems the equal of any risk. I can think of few authors who can deliver an entire set of stories of such class as these." —Robert Coover

"Baumbach calls up enough genuine, old-fashioned feeling to give his jumpy, hybrid tone some grounding: 'A Moving Story' projects all the panic of a shaky marriage into the couple's anxiety over moving into a new house... the story works, one-liners and all, because of an emotional immediacy." —Kirkus Reviews