Product Description: The Chicago Tribune has called Richard Burgin "among our finest artists of love at its most desperate," a critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer dubbed him "one of America's most distinctive storytellers... I can think of no one else of his generation who reports the contemporary war between the sexes with more devastating wit and accuracy...read more

Product Description: In 20 stories (both new and selected from his four previous collections), Richard Burgin explores our quest for identity and love, truth and family, as well as darker themes of betrayal and crime. In The Identity Club we meet an extraordinarily variegated cast of characters, including prostitutes and businessmen, a famous young writer and a homeless basketball player, an ambitious but thwarted composer...read more

Product Description: The Spirit Returns is the fourth collection of original short fiction from Richard Burgin. His characters are everyday people at emotional and psychological crossroads. In "The Liar," a man opening up to a dinner companion is reminded of the emptiness of his own life when the promise of emotional intimacy unexpectedly goes unfulfilled...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Jorge Luis Borges, one of the indisputably great writers of the twentieth century, was born in Buenos Aires in 1899. Never having been awarded the Nobel Prize, which his readers worldwide believed he deserved, this story writer, poet, essayist, and man of letters died at age eighty-six...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

From the famous and wealthy to the homeless and tormented, the characters in the author's third collection of eerie, darkly comic short stories find enlightenment in the fulfillment of their own twisted, solipsistic view of the world. UP. (view table of contents)

Nine stories deal with a lonely walker, a child prodigy, a transient teacher, AIDS anxiety, a retirement community, and obsession