Robert Wexelblatt

• Apr-1990
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• Nov-1993
• / Literary
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Wexelblatt ( Life in the Temperate Zone and Other Stories ) constructs rich stories that make heavy subjects dance weightlessly before the reader's eyes. In one tale, a writer who believes that under repressive regimes "art becomes . . . political ag...

• Sep-2012
• / Literary
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A single father who is a new IRS agent, his cherished and imaginative little girl, a divorced woman having second thoughts about motherhood, a couple who think two ways about becoming parents, a mysterious and crooked financial wizard -- these are th...

• Jul-2014
• / General Fiction
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These tales will take you into the lives of characters you will long remember: -a peasant boy in war-torn Sui China survives a perilous journey and finds his vocation as a poet -an American novelist is invited to the European city he has never visite...

• Jan-2016
• / General Fiction
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Fiction. The fourteen stories in HEIBERG'S TWITCH were not selected for their resemblance to one another, but for their differences in character, tone, and form. The aim is to deploy imagination and invention to furnish tales about the variety of hum...

• Sep-2017
• / General Fiction
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“If these stories were mousetraps, we should all be mice. They are enticing and snap without warning, but the real surprise is their grace. The survivors escape a wee bit wiser, more alert, and creatively perturbed.”

-- R. S. Deese, author o...

• Oct-2018
• / Literary
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The imaginary author/teacher/father Sidney Fein (1942-1984) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His family's fortune came from the business of clothing women of modest means. He attended elementary school in Philadelphia. When he was twelve, h...

• Nov-2019
• / General Fiction
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Praises of Robert Wexelblatt's writing:

". . . loaded with wit, bristling with irony, draped in erudition and studded with metaphysics." - Zofia Smardz, review of The Decline of Our Neighborhood, New York Times Book Review

"Wexelblatt ...

• Aug-2020
• / General Fiction
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After performing a perilous service for the future Emperor, the peasant Chen Hsi-wei turns down the customary rewards in favor of receiving an education. The Court is astonished by this unheard-of request, but orders the strict teacher Shen Kuo to do...

• Feb-2023
• / Historical
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Other Places, Other Times is a collection of historical fictions. Half are set in Sui China, half in a variety of times and locations.Other Places, Other Times is a collection of twenty-six historical fictions. Thirteen of the stories are about Chen ...