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Charles Holdefer
Did the Russians invent baseball? Is there a connection between Babe Ruth's cross-dressing and Gertrude Stein's secret mission to New York? What does history tell us about what lies beyond…
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Who’s the real Mr Boots? Erich Ambrose fools people for a living. It’s a family tradition. But when a party stunt goes disastrously wrong, he finds himself in deep trouble…
When an ex-basketball star and poetry aficionado discovers lost love letters from Emily Dickinson to an unknown Irish lover, she must confront academic conformism and risk embarrassing exposure in order…
Award-winning author Charles Holdefer writes about George Saunders’ seminal, futuristic short story collection about capitalism run amok.
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This darkly humorous collection of short fiction by Charles Holdefer, author of The Contractor and Back in the Game, revolves gracefully around an esoteric and, it goes without saying, entirely…
A portable collection of polemical bedtime stories for adults, addressing such timely topics as: erectile dysfunction during the national anthem, what happens when Nancy Pelosi comes calling, and what Model…
Charles Holdefer, author of Dick Cheney in Shorts, The Contractor and Back in the Game, has here uncovered, with abundant aplomb and loads of literary-archaeological legerdemain, a crucial long-lost manuscript…
This book offers new essays on the pastoral tradition. Both critical revision and consideration of pastoral’s future, Poetics and Politics of Place in Pastoral: International Perspectives investigates the genre’s persistent…
