E.M. Schorb

• Dec-2024
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Gravity Flow: The Jimmy Whistler Stories bring to life the transformation of the United States from the con-forming Fifties to the volcanic social eruptions of the swinging Sixties-from the private chaos of Jimmy Whistler's childhood to the public ch...

• May-2024
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Serge Bering-Strait, a young poet who lives with his activist mother and four aunties in a Greenwich Village brownstone, has just gone to work as copywriter for Women's Omnibus magazine. Serge would much rather have remained up in his garret room wri...

• Mar-2022
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Five and Ten, by a prize-winning poet and novelist, includes a fairy tale, a few poems, and a fable for children illustrated by the author's young daughters. The Golden Squirrel was originally published in Modern Day Fairy Tales. A Fable, first app...

• Oct-2020
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Transit: Tales of Mystery, History, and Crime is a collection of stories, from novel-length to the very brief, in which fictional and historical characters struggle with good and evil, from a prize-winning story teller....

• Sep-2019
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The Secret of Jessie Judas spans the last year in the life of a famed marine biologist and author, who has suffered most of her life from a haunting sense of something dreadful in her past. As a young girl growing up practically orphaned, with li...

• May-2019
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"Schorb has an ear for the manifold accents of American speech, and that adds significantly to the amazing variety of this book. As for locale, these narrations will take you from North Carolina Outer Banks to Polynsia and points in between, with ...

• Jul-2018
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Needleneck is an unusual, vivid tale, combining elements of sexual compulsion and enduring love, of violence and intellectual questioning, of action so handled that it becomes morally symbolic, of the carnal and the spiritual. This is a fast-paced...

• Jul-2017
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The five tales in Malum in Se share the theme of evil--sometimes the evil of deliberation and action, some-times the evildoer is only vaguely aware of his or her moral misprision; but more often fully aware and pur-poseful. Even so, there is humor...

• Nov-2014
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These previously published stories and short fictions, whether realistic or surreal, are always imaginative and sometimes startling. On the opening page, we meet a man who takes a walk at Coney Island, writes an open letter of confession in the sand,...

• Aug-2014
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?A crackling good story told in the compelling, precise prose of a poet. Imaginative. Evocative. Wander the streets of New York with Edgar Allan Poe, who, dear reader, must solve a murder to save a friend. The Frankfurt eBook Grand Prize in Fictio...

• May-2009
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Fortune Island spans the last year in the life of Jessie Judas, a famed marine biologist and author, who has suffered most of her life from a haunting sense of something dreadful in her past. As a young girl growing up practically orphaned, with litt...

• Jan-2003
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More than half a century ago, trying to find his way out of the chaos of a dysfunctional family that suffers from a dark secret, eighteen-year-old Jimmy Whistler joins the Marines and is sent to Hawaii, not yet a state, where he meets a fifteen-year-...

• May-2001
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There was a young priest who stalked the pornographic night of the X-rated movie houses and the prostituting streets outside them in what had become a sexual compulsion. Sometimes he felt that he had lost all control of himself and with that loss his...