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New Stories

Here are five recent unpublished stories--for friends, readers, and magazine editors. These and other stories are available for publication.

Selected Fiction

Short Fiction
Wrestling With Angels: New and Collected Stories
Most of my stories, previously collected and published but uncollected
Radiance: Ten Stories
Jewish fiction, runner-up for National Jewish Book Award in 1998.
Bodies of the Rich. 1984
Short stories, mostly Jewish. Some O.Henry or Best American selections.
Novels
Kuperman’s Fire
A novel about Jewish heritage and about criminal evil. 2007
The Man I Never Wanted to Be
Story of a gentle, liberal professor who has to cope with a man of violence. 1998
What Are Friends For?
Love story of a seventies radical and an older woman. 1979
Stories Available On-line
"The Contract"
Originally published in Commentary
"Vertigo"
A recent story originally published in Commentary "Vertigo" is part of a new collection, The Promised Land.
Light at the End of the Tunnel
A recent story from AGNI-On Line

Quick Links

The Man I Never Wanted to Be available at Permanent Press
Bodies of the Rich available at Amazon.com
Radiance available at Amazon.com
Stories from Radiance
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