American novelist John Manderino's latest work is a sparkling, hilarious novella, Bopper's Progress. Told over the course of a day in the life of Bopper, a directionless young man who has found himsel
In the last column of a job application, there’s that tricky question: Reason for Leaving.John Manderino has apparently had to puzzle over that one often and long. His answers are collected here in th
After a routine pop-up falls on his head, Hank decides that he's through with baseball, but has a tough time when he realizes that baseball is the only thing that's given meaning to his life
In this comic, witty memoir, John Manderino shows us how the pivotal points of his life have been enmeshed with movie moments. "Crying at Movies" presents thirty-eight succinct chapters, eac
After a routine pop-up falls on his head, Hank decides that he's through with baseball, but has a tough time when he realizes that baseball is the only thing that's given meaning to his life
Micro-stories of modern monsters and other horrors.This collection of twenty-six dark, but often humorous short stories features a pantheon of disturbed and disturbing characters, human and otherwise.
It’s Saturday, october 27, 1962, the darkest day of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Two children, Ralph and his little sister Lou, are searching for empty bottles in a vacant lot when they discover a rock w
It isn’t fair. Len’s been asking for hockey gloves since before Thanksgiving but when he opens the only promising-looking box left under the tree, there they are: house slippers. Meanwhile his older b
