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Pamela Painter
Harvard Book Store's virtual event series welcomes PAMELA PAINTER—Emerson College professor of Writing, Literature & Publishing and author of the acclaimed story collections, Getting to Know the Weather and The Long and Short of It—for the launch of her latest collection, Fabrications: New and Selected Stories. She will be joined in conversation by fellow professor STEVE YARBROUGH, author of The Realm of Last Chances and The Unmade World: A Novel.
Pamela Painter's short stories have been praised by Margot Livesey for their "wicked intelligence and ruthless humor." In Fabrications, which brings together 7 new and 24 selected stories, characters struggle to avoid the chaos in their lives, but—driven by addictions and appetites—often bring on disaster. Nobody is ordinary in Painter's stories. A burglar can't believe what he is asked to do by the woman whose jewelry he is stealing. Hitchhikers, hell-bent on murder, are thwarted by the miracle of story-telling. A wife can make rooms—and her husband—disappear, but saves the family dog. A young woman insists on the romance of being married in an Elvis Presley chapel, but for the wrong reasons.
Fabrications is a testament to Painter's lyric skill and psychological insight across her career.
