"The motley psyches in Mr. Burgin's gallery expose themselves in eerily funny monologues...But it is not their strangeness alone that fascinates...Rather, it is the way they twist messages from a sane
The Chicago Tribune has called Richard Burgin "among our finest artists of love at its most desperate," a critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer dubbed him "one of America’s most distinctive storytell
Five-time Pushcart Prize winner Richard Burgin’s stories have been praised by theNew York Times Book Review as "eerily funny, dexterous, and too haunting to be easily forgotten," with "
In Hide Island, his sixteenth book and eighth collection of stories, Richard Burgin explores themes of love and crime, memory and identity, abuse and redemption, and the contradictory battle between o
At once a highly suspenseful psychological thriller and an ambitious literary work told from multiple points of view,Rivers Last Longer takes its turns, sometimes satirically, through the New York lit
In Hide Island, his sixteenth book and eighth collection of stories, Richard Burgin explores themes of love and crime, memory and identity, abuse and redemption, and the contradictory battle between o
Set in the contemporary classical-music world of New York City and Tanglewood, the novel centers around the Faustian struggles of Ray Stoneson, a thirty-two-year-old composer, talented yet unrecognize
The Chicago Tribune has called Richard Burgin "among our finest artists of love at its most desperate," a critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer dubbed him "one of America’s most distinctive storyteller
The New York Times Book Review has praised Richard Burgin’s stories as "eerily funny... dexterous... too haunting to be easily forgotten," while the Philadelphia Inquirer calls him "one of America’s
Jorge Luis Borges, one of the indisputably great writers of the twentieth century, was born in Buenos Aires in 1899. Never having been awarded the Nobel Prize, which his readers worldwide believed he
