Pamela Painter, Wouldn’t You Like to Know

Start: 10/28/2010 7:00 pm

"Pamela Painter has perfected the short short. Here is a brilliant chronicle of the human condition, moving, complex, wholly original, and huge fun to read."
Alice Hoffman, author of The Story Sisters

"In her stunning new collection, Pamela Painter conjures strange magic, as even her most down-to-earth characters reveal that in the end nobody is ordinary. She's taught me plenty in these pages—about love and the loss of it, about generosity and greed, happiness and pain—but mostly she has earned my undying admiration. This is fiction of immense beauty, full of wisdom and informed by rare grace."
Steve Yarbrough, author of Safe from the Neighbors

Pamela Painter is the author of two collections of stories: Getting to Know the Weather, which won the GLCA Award for First Fiction and was reprinted as a Classic Contemporary by Carnegie Mellon, and The Long and Short of It. She is also the co-author of What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers, now in its third edition. Her stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Harper's, and Kenyon Review, among others. She has received grants from The Massachusetts Artists Foundation and the National Endowment of the Arts, has won three Pushcart Prizes and Agni Review's The John Cheever Award for Fiction. Painter lives in Boston and teaches in the Writing, Literature and Publishing Program at Emerson College.

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