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What I Found Out About Her explores how everyday life for many can often provide a window into the contemporary American psyche.

The World Is a Book, Indeed chronicles in eleven rich personal essays the ongoing quest of award-winning writer Peter LaSalle to embark on offbeat, often startlingly revelatory literary travel.A summer spent roaming the lesser-known quarters of Paris finds LaSalle haunted by the work of the French surrealists. In Hanoi, he meets for beers with the editors--two military men--of the Army Literature and Arts Magazine while investigating Vietnam's...

To be untethered in the waking world, to have the feeling that perhaps we are sleepwalking—that's what life can be like for the people in these eleven stories by Peter LaSalle, known to readers of leading literary magazines for his luminous prose style and narrative daring.

LaSalle's intense, haunting novel beckons readers into the shadowy lives of undocumented workers in the US and the difficult choices they must face. Written as a single book-length sentence, Mariposa's Song is also a truly innovative achievement in the novel form itself, as it continually startles and satisfies with stylistic daring and sheer lyrical radiance.

To be untethered in the waking world, to have the feeling that perhaps we are sleepwalkingthats what life can be like for the people in these eleven stories by Peter LaSalle, known to readers of leading literary magazines for his luminous prose style and narrative daring.

What I Found Out About Her: Stories of Dreaming American, winner of the 2014 Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, reaffirms Peter LaSalle's reputation as one of the most startlingly original writers working in the short fiction genre today. In this collection of eleven stories, LaSalle explores how everyday life for many-an FBI agent, a study-abroad student, a drug dealer's chic girlfriend, a trio of Broadway playwrights, among others-can ...

Armchair travelers and literary types will relish the descriptions of both the author, his travels, and the admired writers.” -Library Journal "LaSalle shows himself to be a smart and open writer with a restless intellect and infectious passion for travel and literature.”-Publishers Weekly "These are travel pieces ... but they use travel mainly as a portal to literary celebration.”-Kirkusl "It seems like the love of literature might be enou...

LaSalle's intense, haunting novel beckons readers into the shadowy lives of undocumented workers in the U.S. and the difficult choices they must face. Written as a single book-length sentence, Mariposa's Song is also a truly innovative achievement in the novel form itself, as it continually startles and satisfies with stylistic daring and sheer lyrical radiance.

Literary short stories on the place of ice hockey in our lives and imaginations.

Mind-bending tales of passion, obsession, and brutality from an award-winning master of short fiction

Literary short stories on the place of ice hockey in our lives and imaginations.