Post-sabbatical (’04-’05), Philip returned with his new poetry book
How Men Pray in print, and recently (Spring, ’07) the baseball book
he’s edited – Scoring from Second: Writers on Baseball – came out
from the University of Nebraska Press. Even more recently, word comes
that his venerable old Silent Retreats, the Flannery O’Connor Award winner,
will be re-issued in paperback on the occasion of its 20th anniversary.
Below are projects in progress and projects that are out to publishers for
consideration:
Who’s Afraid of Bill Clinton? – a novel set way out in the middle
of the middle (Illinois to be exact) during a time when, pure coincidence,
a woman named Monica Lewinsky was beginning to appear in the national news.
Cyndie – Recalling the Marriage – a genuine
work-(still)-in-progress, a memoir comprised of a set of personal
essays that celebrate the sixties, young love, pain and glory.
The book also sings songs of regret and seeks to close the wounds, both of them.
Dreams of Her and Other Stories
– a selection of stories from the many written after Silent
Retreats, most of which have appeared in the literary
magazines. One from this collection has just been selected for inclusion in
Precious Time, an anthology edited by Dan Wickett and to be published by Press 53
in Fall, 2008.
Forty Martyrs Suite -- a "novel
in stories" made up of seven interconnected short stories
including the acclaimed "Forty Martyrs," first published
in the New England Review and cited in Best American
Short Stories '95, and the midwestern gothic "The
Underlife," which first appeared in Crazyhorse and was
cited in The Pushcart Prize XX.
Past Tense -- a brand new novel
pulling together many of the characters in Silent Retreats
for an encore story that scatters from Rockville, Indiana
to Louisville, Kentucky to Cassadaga and the gated-community-and-mall
sprawl of contemporary Florida. It might be subtitled Skidmore
on a Mission.
Silent Retreats - the Flannery O'Connor
award winner, still vital after all these years, rolls over to paperback
(University of Georgia Press) on the occasion of its 20th anniversary.
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