“David Mainelli's people have nerves so frayed you pray for their vulnerable hearts page by steel-edged page. I see a book in flames. Truth and redemption are fighting under apocalyptic American skies. A holy book of domestic passions by a writer so fiercely graced with insights into the heart's naked chambers you just sit stunned."--Tom Paine author of A Boy’s Book of Nervous Breakdowns
Published by WSC Press
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In Mainelli’s stories, characters wish for the American dream. We could have God, money, and sex if we just find the key. But the key is out of reach. In one story, a man inherits $150K, and you think he’s found it. But happiness eludes him. Americans think they deserve to be happy, but in these stories, we don’t know how to make ourselves happy; it’s always achingly out of reach. Mainelli elbows into Denis Johnson’s territory here, gritty working-class middle America, dreaming of something we see on TV, something we can almost imagine feeling. These stories are raw and gritty, and as we settle into a hard year, these are the stories we will yearn for. —
Kate Gale Author of The Goldilocks Zone
The value of this book cannot be overstated.
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A poem. Weird.
Odds and more odd
Plains Writers Series and Northeast Visiting Writers Series
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Recorded on 4/21/21
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MIGRAINE CITY
An audio recording of the short story Migraine City