books by Brock Clarke

books by Brock Clarke

books:

Brock Clarke

An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England

Brock Clarke

Algonquin Books, 2008

Great fun for a family tragedy
In the interests of full disclosure: Brock Clarke is the brother of one of my coworkers and he came to present at our fledgling Creative Writing conference out of fraternal affection and perhaps a free (steamtabled) dinner. Thus, to counter the really base ad hominem ...

The Ordinary White Boy

Brock Clarke

Harvest Books, 2002

Judging a Book by its Cover
Bonnie puts all the Advance Reader Copies out on a table in her independent bookstore. They're there for us to take if we want; she could never read them all. I browsed these books recently, reading titles, author's names, and wondering about the artwork. This one has ...

Carrying the Torch: Stories (Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction)

Brock Clarke

University of Nebraska Press, 2005

Good storytelling, but...
The author writes well and can spin a yarn, and the first four stories are standouts. Past the fourth though the collection starts lose some variety and edge. It isn't the ubiquitous problematic husband that's tiring, but just the way this character is approached again ...

Writers on Writers (A Special Supplement to the Virginia Quarterly Review)
Steve Almond, Brock Clarke, ...

Virginia Quarterly Review, 2005

An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, Unabridged Library Edition
Brock Clarke

Books on Tape, 2007

Perfect in library edition, 9 unabridged CDs. The hero of this novel has come to the end of a long journey and for the second time in his life he has the time to think about all the things that have and have not come to pass. In Sam's life he spent 10 years in prison for burining down poet Emily Dickinson's house, killing two people. At 28 he ...

The Cincinnati Review, Spring 2004, Volume 1, Number 1, 2004

In this issue ... Randall Jarrell, Henry Taylor, David Sanders, Margot Schilpp, Mary Otis, Beth Ann Fennelly, Mary Karr, David Lehman ... and many more.

What We Won't Do: Stories
Brock Clarke

Sarabande Books, 2002

Winner of the 2000 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction Welcome to the strange, wonderful world of Brock Clarke. Here you will meet florists, dental hygienists, high school teachers, and peddlers of porno novelty items, all trying to be normal, good people and failing miserably. Reaffirming that "life, at its core, is embarrassing," What We ...