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Made in Michigan Writers Series2012 Michigan Notable Book!As selected by the Library of MichiganThe World of a FewMinutes AgoStories by Jack Driscoll“Ludicrous and tragic predicamentsbecome vehicles for profound awakeningsin Driscoll’s suspenseful, incisive,and compassionate stories of camouflagedwisdom.”—Booklist2012 / 5.5 x 8.5 / 184 ppISBN 978-0-8143-3612-0$18.95t paperISBN 978-0-8143-3613-7 eMade in Michigan Writers Series2012 Michigan Notable Book!As selected by the Library of Michigan2010 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year!Finalist in the Anthologies category2011 Independent Publisher’s Book AwardSilver Medal in the category of Great Lakes:Best Regional Fiction2011 Eric Hoffer Book AwardFinalist in the category of General FictionGhost WritersUs Haunting ThemContemporary MichiganLiteratureEdited by Keith Taylor andLaura Kasischke“Looking for trouble in familiar places?I suggest you curl up with this contemporaryliterary guide to Michiganghosts.”—Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of OnceUpon a River and American Salvage2011 / 5 x 8 / 224 ppISBN 978-0-8143-3474-4$18.95t paperISBN 978-0-8143-3594-9 eMade in Michigan Writers Series2010 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year!Bronze medal in the category of Fiction-Short StoriesAs If We Were PreyStories by Michael Delp“In understated prose that remarkablysays more in one sentence that manywriters do in a paragraph, Delp takes usinside the head and hearts of his malecharacters, all of whom share a certainmelancholy, both eerie and familiar, allin a style reminiscent of another upnorthrenowned author, Jim Harrison.”—Detroit News2010 / 5 x 8 / 120 ppISBN 978-0-8143-3477-5$15.95t paperISBN 978-0-8143-3532-1 eMade in Michigan Writers Series2011 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year!Finalist in the Short Stories category2011 Finalist for the micro AwardFor the story “Coda”In Which BriefStories Are ToldPhillip Sterling“There is no fluff, no filler, no tricks inthis story collection by Phillip Sterling.He gives us a concise, collected, beautifulseries of stories, all set in Michigan,all seemingly with a running theme—resignation to life’s events as they are.”—Gently Read Literature2011 / 5 x 8 / 144 ppISBN 978-0-8143-3507-9$18.95t paperISBN 978-0-8143-3535-2 eMade in Michigan Writers Series2011 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year!Finalist in the Short Stories categoryLove/ImperfectStories by Christopher T. Leland“Leland deals with the wonders ofintimacy, portraying a broad range ofrelationships, from the engaged coupleof ’Casing the Promised Land,’ whoseinteractions are full of missed connectionsand lovely synchronicity, to thefrank sex talks of the gay couple at thecenter of ’Fellatio,’ without sacrificingunity of theme and approach. In thefirst-person stories the reader becomesthe narrator’s confidante, whereasthird-person turns the same readerinto a voyeur.”—Publishers Weekly2011 / 5.5 x 7.5 / 192 ppISBN 978-0-8143-3495-9$18.95t paperISBN 978-0-8143-3536-9 eMade in Michigan Writers SeriesVoices of the Lost andFoundStories by Dorene O’Brien“Fierce, economical, completely persuasive,and compelling, Voices of theLost and Found is like the strongestand rawest prose by a poet from anAmerican folk tradition that we knowexists but seldom hear from.”—Shirley Geok-lin Lim, author ofJoss and Gold and Among the WhiteMoon Faces2007 / 5.5 x 7.5 / 192 ppISBN 978-0-8143-3346-4$18.95t paperISBN 978-0-8143-3531-4 eMade in Michigan Writers Series(800) 978-7323 wsupress.wayne.edu 39