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Something is Out There: Stories
Richard Bausch
2010
A husband confronts the power of youth and the inexorable truths of old age. A son sits by his mother’s bedside determined to give her what she needs in her final days, even though doing so means breaking his own heart. A brief adulterous tryst illuminates the fragility of our most intimate relations. A young man returns in the face of crisis to the parents he once rejected. A divorced young woman dealing with slowly increasing despair develops an obsession about a note that fell from the pocket of a man who came to eat in the café where she works. A wife whose husband has been shot must weather a terrible snowstorm with her two sons, as well as a storm of doubt about the extent of his involvement in a crime.
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These Extremes: Poems and Prose
Richard Bausch
2009
In his first collection of poetry and prose, award-winning fiction writer Richard Bausch proves that he is also an accomplished poet. Penned over a span of many years, the poems in These Extremes deal with a wide variety of subjects. Many focus on Bausch's own family and relationships. In one long, touching poem, "Barbara (1943-1974)," the poet memorializes his oldest sister, who died young. He also offers two prose memory pieces, recollections from his childhood and adolescence. In these brief "essays," Bausch draws loving but unsentimental portraits of his father, mother, and other relatives.
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Peace: A Novel
Richard Bausch
2008
Italy, near Cassino. The terrible winter of 1944. A dismal icy rain, continuing unabated for days. Guided by a seventy-year-old Italian man in rope-soled shoes, three American soldiers are sent on a reconnaissance mission up the side of a steep hill that they discover, before very long, to be a mountain. And the old man's indeterminate loyalties only add to the terror and confusion that engulf them on that mountain, where they are confronted with the horror of their own time--and then set upon by a sniper.
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Thanksgiving Night: A Novel
Richard Bausch
2006
Will Butterfield can't believe it. His 75–year–old mother, Holly, is drunk and threatening to jump off the roof. Again.
Holly and Fiona, another elderly relative, won't stop tormenting Will and his wife Elizabeth with their bizarre (though often amusing) antics. Between Will's worries about his bookstore, The Heart's Ease, and Elizabeth's troublesome high school students, dealing with "the crazies" has become just too much.
But then something unexpected happens –– Henry Ward, a neighborhood handyman, meets the two old women, and he, his daughter Alison, and grandchildren are drawn into the Butterfields' lives in surprising ways. Both a comedy and a love story –– a first for Bausch –– Thanksgiving Night is about the real meaning of family, and one particular clan that has many reasons to be thankful.
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Wives & Lovers: Three Short Novels
Richard Bausch
2004
Requisite Kindness -- published here for the first time -- tells the story of a man who must come to terms with a life of treating women badly when he goes to live with his sister and dying mother. Rare & Endangered Species demonstrates how a wife and mother's suicide reverberates in the small community where she lived, and affects the lives of people who don't even know her. Finally, Spirits is about the pain that men and women can -- and do -- inflict upon each other. These three very different works illuminate the unadorned core of love -- not the showy, more celebrated sort but what remains when lust, jealousy, and passion have been stripped away.
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The Stories of Richard Bausch
Richard Bausch
2003
In a collection of forty-two short stories, the author explores his fascination with the everyday details of human relationships and considers the dramatic roots of common interactions.
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Hello to the Cannibals: A Novel
Richard Bausch
2002
At first, all Lily Austin knows about 19th–century explorer Mary Kingsley is that, 100 years before, she was the first white woman to venture into the heart of Africa. But as Lily begins reading about Mary Kingsley, she becomes more and more fascinated – and discovers in Mary a kindred spirit.
In her own life, Lily feels trapped – on the one hand, she craves family and intimate connection; on the other hand, she has no healthy or satisfying role models. Consequently, as she nears graduation from the University of Virginia, she finds herself uncertain about what to do with her life.
As she researches Mary's life – she has begun writing a play about her – Lily comes to witness Mary's incredible bravery and startling originality, qualities that prove inspirational to Lily, whose own bravery is required as she attempts to navigate dysfunctional and destructive relationships with her young husband, her extended family – and a legacy of abuse dating back to her childhood.
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Someone to Watch Over Me: Stories
Richard Bausch
1999
A collection of stories on families. In Valor, a man performs an act of courage in the hope of rekindling his wife's affection, in Riches a lottery winner vows not to change, while a third story is on a father's discomfort with a son-in-law, older than he is.
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In the Night Season: A Novel
Richard Bausch
1998
In Virginia, gunmen invade a widow's home, holding her and a son hostage as they seek her husband's computer disks. Detective Philip Shaw goes to her rescue.
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Good Evening Mr. and Mrs. America, and all the Ships at Sea
Richard Bausch
1996
A witty coming-of-age story featuring Walter Marshall of Washington, a 19-year-old idealist, politically naive and sexually pure, born into an America which is quite the opposite. The time is the 1960s.
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The Selected Stories of Richard Bausch
Richard Bausch
1996
This selection brings together ten pieces.
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Rare & Endangered Species: A Novella & Stories
Richard Bausch
1994
A collection of short stories reflects the shadowy workings of the human heart in the business of everyday life with titles such as Aren't You Happy for Me, High-Heeled Shoe, and The Natural Effects of Divorce.
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Rebel Powers
Richard Bausch
1993
A decorated Air Force officer and former POW returns from Vietnam alive but faces a dishonorable discharge and a two-year prison term.
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Violence: A Novel
Richard Bausch
1992
In this shattering novel, a man walks into a convenience store--which turns out to be precisely the wrong place at the wrong time. The near-death and seemingly arbitrary survival of Charles Connally are rendered with a realism, horror, and compassion that explore the strands of brutality running invisibly through his life, his wife's--and perhaps, that of the entire nation.
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The Fireman's Wife: And Other Stories
Richard Bausch
1990
The epigraph for this collection of ten stories is a brief quotation from Keats--"Happy love, more happy, happy love." Bausch does indeed portray the joys of marriage and family life, but he also reveals the pain lurking just below the surface. In "Wedlock" the levity of a honeymoon night suddenly turns mean. In "Equity" three adult daughters must cope with a senile mother who previously supported them through divorces, nervous breakdowns, and other crises. Most of the stories have contemporary urban settings, but "Old West" is a retelling of the Shane story that takes away all of the legendary gunfighter's heroism.
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Mr. Field's Daughter: A Novel
Richard Bausch
1989
Mr. Field's daughter becomes Mr. Gilbertson's wife and thereby initiates a series of family tragedies. Lovingly reared by a widower father, Annie defies him by eloping. She eventually realizes that her husband is a criminal and drug addict and returns home with her own daughter. Gilbertson's efforts to avenge himself and reclaim his child lead to a violent but redemptive conclusion.
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Spirits and Other Stories
Richard Bausch
1987
These nine stories all deal with the failure of the spirit, all, indeed, with aspects of a single personality. Although the protagonists differ, each suffers from self-doubt, perhaps self-abnegation. In "All the Way in Flagstaff," a man recalls a picnic with his wife and children on a day when his compulsive drinking signaled the end of his marriage. The very old protagonist of "Wisemen at Their End" always held his family at arm's length and now is unable to accept the proffered help of an elderly woman. In "Police Dreams" a husband, content with his family and job, slowly feels his wife slipping away, refusing to communicate, losing interest even in their children. She leaves him, for no reason except that he is himself, and that's not good enough. Disconsolate and wary, an 18-year-old whose father has died a few months before spends Christmas with his mother and aunt in "Ancient History." Eventually, he realizes that his father had been preparing to leave them.
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The Last Good Time
Richard Bausch
1984
A story about all different kinds of loves, in youth, maturity and old age. Three main characters linked together by their need for affection and understanding.
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Take Me Back: A Novel
Richard Bausch
1981
This second novel from the author is set in a dingy apartment complex in fictional Point Royal, Virginia, exploring the disaffected lives of Gordon Brinhan, an insurance salesman, and his wife, Katherine, a former rock guitarist.
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Real Presence: A Novel
Richard Bausch
1980
Monsignor Vincent Shepherd is aging, discouraged, tired and sick. He has had a serious heart attack and is assigned to a country parish in rural Virginia. Withdrawn and bitter, he is expecting death, but his visitors do not include that august personage.
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Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism
Karima Bennoune
2013
In Lahore, Pakistan, Faizan Peerzada resisted being relegated to a “dark corner” by staging a performing arts festival despite bomb attacks. In Senegal, wheelchair-bound Aissatou Cissé produced a comic book to illustrate the injustices faced by disabled women and girls. In Algeria, publisher Omar Belhouchet and his journalists struggled to put out their paper, El Watan (The Nation), the same night that a 1996 jihadist bombing devastated their offices and killed eighteen of their colleagues. In Afghanistan, Young Women for Change took to the streets of Kabul to denounce sexual harassment, undeterred by threats. In Minneapolis, Minnesota, Abdirizak Bihi organized a Ramadan basketball tournament among Somali refugees to counter the influence of Al Shabaab. From Karachi to Tunis, Kabul to Tehran, across the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, and beyond, these trailblazers often risked death to combat the rising tide of fundamentalism within their own countries.
But this global community of writers, artists, doctors, musicians, museum curators, lawyers, activists, and educators of Muslim heritage remains largely invisible, lost amid the heated coverage of Islamist terror attacks on one side and abuses perpetrated against suspected terrorists on the other.
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Stand By Me
Wendell Berry
5-30-2019
On a clear Kentucky night in 1888, a young woman risks her life to save a stranger from a drunken mob. Almost a hundred years later, her great-grandson Andy climbs a hill at the edge of town, and is flooded with memories of all he has lived, seen and heard of the past century - of farmers wooing schoolteachers and soldiers trudging home from war; of the first motor car, the Great Depression and Vietnam; of neighbourly feuds and family secrets; of grief and betrayal - and of great friendship that endures for a lifetime.
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Wendell Berry: Essays 1969-1990.
Wendell Berry
5-21-2019
In celebration of Berry’s extraordinary six-decade-long career, Library of America presents a two-volume edition of his essays, selected by the author and his longtime editor, Jack Shoemaker, which reveals as never before the evolution of Berry’s thoughts and concerns as a farmer, neighbor, citizen, teacher, activist, and ecological philosopher. This first volume includes the whole of Berry’s now classic book The Unsettling of America (1977) and thirty-two essays from eight collections published from 1969 to 1990: The Long-Legged House (1969), The Hidden Wound (1970), A Continuous Harmony (1972), Recollected Essays: 1969–1980 (1981), The Gift of Good Land (1981), Standing by Words (1983), Home Economics (1987), and What Are People For? (1990).
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Wendell Berry: Essays 1993-2017
Wendell Berry
5-21-2019
This second volume in the Library of America edition of Wendell Berry’s essays presents writings from the latter half of his career, including the entirety of Life Is a Miracle (2000) and forty-two essays from nine other books published from 1993 to 2017: Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community (1993), Another Turn of the Crank (1995), Citizenship Papers (2003), The Way of Ignorance (2005), What Matters? (2010), Imagination in Place (2010), It All Turns on Affection (2012), Our Only World (2015), and The Art of Loading Brush (2017).
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Port William Novels and Stories
Wendell Berry
2018
For more than fifty years, in eight novels and fortytwo short stories, Wendell Berry (b. 1934) has created an indelible portrait of rural America through the lens of Port William, Kentucky, one of the most fully imagined places in American literature. Taken together, these novels and stories form a masterwork of American prose: straightforward, spare, and lyrical. Now, for the first time, in an edition prepared in consultation with the author, Library of America is presenting the complete story of Port William in the order of narrative chronology. This first volume, which spans from the Civil War to World War II, gathers the novels Nathan Coulter (1960, revised 1985), A Place on Earth (1967, revised 1983), A World Lost (1996), and Andy Catlett: Early Travels (2006), along with twenty-three short stories, among them such favorites as "Watch With Me," "Thicker than Liquor," and "A Desirable Woman." It also features a newly researched chronology of Berry?s life and career, a map and a Port William Membership family tree, and helpful notes
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