{"product_id":"a-german-picturesque-isbn-9781940436173","title":"A German Picturesque","description":"Haunting in their tone, brilliant in their images––very like fantastic presences moving across glass––the twenty–one fictions in this startling debut collection seem both inexplicably familiar and like no writing we have seen before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe opening story leads us through a kaleidoscopic series of thoughts and memories around the act of writing a letter. Another, an intricately structured document of documents––household inventories, daily calendars, property deeds, an announcement––suggests the reality overflowing these mundane markers of our lives. Yet another traces the histories of five artifacts, while at the same time slyly assembling five miniature biographical portraits.\u003cb\u003eJason Schwartz\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two books of fiction, \u003ci\u003eA German Picturesque\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJohn the Posthumous\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Letters \u0026amp; Commentary\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAntioch Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eConjunctions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Tyrant\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStory Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUnsaid\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications. He is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Florida Atlantic University where he teaches creative writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBen Marcus\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four books of fiction. His book, \u003ci\u003eLeaving the Sea: Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Alfred A. Knopf. His stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in publications including \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eConjunctions\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Counterpoint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301216997605,"sku":"NP9781940436173","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781940436173.jpg?v=1767720488","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-german-picturesque-isbn-9781940436173","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}