LA Times reviews Eileen Pollack

Writing in yesterday's LA Times Heller McAlpin comments,

".... Eileen Pollack's story collection "In the Mouth" is at once boldly physical and darkly comic. In "The Bris," a man on his deathbed begs his son to arrange for his circumcision. (Turns out he'd been merely passing as an Orthodox Jew for seven decades, afraid of the procedure.) In "Beached in Boca," a retired dentist whose girlfriend has AIDS rails at his daughter, "The truth about getting old is that every single person you've ever loved dies." ("I'm still here," his daughter reminds him.)..."

One of the stories from the collection, "The Bris," was featured in Best American Short Stories 2007 , and Eileen was recently described as "an American talent" by Stephen King in the New York Times Book Review You can buy her critically-praised and much-loved collection of short stories and novellas, In the Mouth (Four Way Books, 2008), direct from Four Way at two-thirds of the retail price, 32% off.

Or, ask your local independent bookstore where their copies can be found!

Four Way Fiction Writer Eileen Pollack selected for 2007 Best American Short Stories

Four Way Books is delighted to congratulate Eileen Pollack, whose story 'The Bris' has been selected by Heidi Pitlor and Stephen King for inclusion in the 2007 Best American Short Stories, to be published by Houghton Mifflin.

Eileen Pollack's newest fiction collection, In the Mouth, will be published Spring 2008 by Four Way Books. 'The Bris' appeared in Subtropics issue 1 . She is the author of The Rabbi in the Attic and Other Stories, which the Washington Post included on its list of favorite books of the past 25 years, and the novel Paradise, New York. Her book-length work of creative nonfiction, Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull, won a 2003 WILLA Finalist Award.

If you're visiting AWP Atlanta, Eileen Pollack will be reading on Thursday at 10.30 at a Subtropics reading introduced by David Leavitt, editor of the magazine. Other readers include Kent Annan, Geoffrey Brock, David Galef, Randall Mann, and Padma Viswanathan.