Showing posts with label Fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fiction. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Fiction Writer's Review Announces "Breaking and Entering" as Book of the Week


Breaking and Entering by Eileen Pollack, published by Four Way Books, has been picked as Book of the Week by Fiction Writer's Review.

"It’s no secret that we’re big fans of Eileen Pollack’s work at FWR. In fact, as our Founding and Features Editor, Anne Stameshkin, noted in an addendum to a 2009 interview with the author that we published on the site, Eileen Pollack–and her Contemporary Novel class at the University of Michigan–was one of the inspirations for the creation of Fiction Writers Review. So it’s with particular pleasure that we announce her new novel, Breaking and Entering, as our featured Book-of-the-Week title. Congratulations, Eileen!

And we’re not alone in our admiration for this new book or Pollack’s work. In her laudatory review of Breaking and Entering (Four Way Books, 2012) in last Sunday’s New York Times Book Review, author Jen Thompson writes: Pollack is an engaging writer with a first-rate eye for the telling sociological detail, like the Militia Babes calendar in the Banks’s farmhouse."

To read more about Fiction Writer's Review's response to Breaking and Entering, click here.

There is also a chance to win a signed copy of Breaking and Entering if you are a follower of Fiction Writer's Review's Twitter account! To follow their Twitter, go to this link. Books will be given away next week.

If you want to learn more about Breaking and Entering and Four Way Books, visit our website.

Friday, January 2, 2009

Eileen Pollack wins Lewis Wallant Award!



In the Mouth: stories and novellas by Eileen Pollack has been announced as the winner of the Edward Lewis Wallant Award! Past winners of the award include Chaim Potok, Cynthia Ozick, Curt Leviant, Allegra Goodman, Myla Goldberg, Thane Rosenbaum, and Jonathan Rosen. There will be an award ceremony and reading on April 13th 2009 at the University of Hartford.

Congratulations to Eileen on yet another moment of acclaim for this witty, darkly comic, and engaging collection of stories, one of which ("The Bris") was featured in Best American Short Stories 2007 . and Eileen was also described in 2008 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!