What He's Poised to Do

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"Ben Greenman's masterwork of stories inspired by letters offers fresh insight into the mysteries of intimacy. A seriously brilliant and lyrical piece of modern fiction, with characters so alive and sincere and full of longing, they may climb out of the book and follow you home." —Simon Van Booy, author of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award-winning Love Begins in Winter
What He's Poised to Do is a diverse, often wittj, alwajs moving, set of stories about love, infidelity, and the J earning for human connection, by one of our most talented writers.
"Romantic and compulsively readable, What He's Poised to Do will appeal to anyone who's ever been in love, had a broken heart, or been misunderstood." —Amy Sohu, author of Prosper Pak. West
"What a fine and unique writer Ben Greenman is. I love his sentences, his precision. I feel as if he's absorbed and digested so mud^^at literature, ^ distilling it all tocreate his own rfftitasrac universe of stories and ideas."... Tovább

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"Ben Greenman's masterwork of stories inspired by letters offers fresh insight into the mysteries of intimacy. A seriously brilliant and lyrical piece of modern fiction, with characters so alive and sincere and full of longing, they may climb out of the book and follow you home." —Simon Van Booy, author of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award-winning Love Begins in Winter
What He's Poised to Do is a diverse, often wittj, alwajs moving, set of stories about love, infidelity, and the J earning for human connection, by one of our most talented writers.
"Romantic and compulsively readable, What He's Poised to Do will appeal to anyone who's ever been in love, had a broken heart, or been misunderstood." —Amy Sohu, author of Prosper Pak. West
"What a fine and unique writer Ben Greenman is. I love his sentences, his precision. I feel as if he's absorbed and digested so mud^^at literature, ^ distilling it all tocreate his own rfftitasrac universe of stories and ideas."
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"A terrifie collection—a set of elegant, inventive dispatches that knock around space and time, and the v^renching gaps between people, to chart a world of previously unnamed moments and emotions." — Jess Walter, author of The Financial Lives of the Poets
Ben Greenman is a writer of virtuosic range and uncanny emotional insight. As Darin Strauss has noted, "Like Bruno Schulz, George Saunders, Donald Barthelme, and no one else I can think of, Greenman has the power to be whimsical without resorting to whimsy." The stories in this new collection, What He's Poised to Do, showcase his wide range, yet are united by a shared sense of yearning, a concern with connections missed and lost, and a poignant attention to how we try to preserve and maintain those connections through the written word.
From a portrait of an unfaithful man contemplating his own free will to the saga of a young Cuban man's quixotic devotion to a woman he may never have met; and from a nineteenth-century weapons inventor's letter to his young daughter to an aging man's wistful
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