Fiction. "Though these stories are anchored in events unfolding in contemporary times, their power and beauty rest on Matlin's rhapsodic evocation of America's past. It is all that has vanished—the ma
A HalfMan Dreaming conjures into existence an apocalyptic storyline that takes its narrator, Lupe, from a childhood encounter with the Enola Gay on the edge of the Californian desert, to the war in Vi
Literary Nonfiction. A collection of lyrical verse, consoling prose, and personal meditations on American culture. "What if the art forms have so solidified as to be irrelevant to defy our political p
