Binding: Paperback
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 1, 2017

• Language ‏ : ‎ English

• Print length ‏ : ‎ 136 pages

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0989810348

• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0989810340

• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.9 ounces

• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.5 x 7 inches

Fiction.

The 50 short–short stories are based on old–time games played in parlors, basements, and fields with balls, brooms, blindfolds, and cards. As winners and losers emerge from dodge ball, word games or balloon contests, so does the theme of our inner life as ceaseless competition. There is calculation, envy, humiliation and joy, and there is always the next round when everything might change.

About the Author

Albert Mobilio is the author of four books of poetry (Same Faces, Touch Wood, Me with Animal Towering, The Geographics), a book of fiction (Games and Stunts), and a collection of essays (Reading Against Type). He received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Excellence in Reviewing and a Whiting Award. He has been a MacDowell Fellow and won an Andy Warhol Arts Writers Grant. A former editor at Bookforum and Hyperallergic, he is an associate professor of literary studies at Eugene Lang College at the New School.