Little Street Music

Daniel Stern is the author of nine novels and five short story collections. His first collection, Twice Told Tales, won the Rosenthal Award for literary excellence given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is currently the Cullen Distinguished Professor of English in the creative writing program at the University of Houston.

Stories by a man who has told many, and the telling of those others has shaped these new ones. He wants, now, to articulate contradictions, not resolve them. No resolutions here, only the wisdom of hindsight and the comedy of loss. 'Afterwards,' Stern says, 'that unavoidable word when telling about sex afterwards I lay listening....' These stories are what is heard - overheard. - Richard Howard