David Ebenbach

Tune in (via internet connection) as David Ebenbach gets interviewed by the hosts of Big Blend Radio about Into the Wilderness, his new short story collection! The spot should begin at about 8:00 EST and last 20-25 minutes. Click here to listen, either live during the show or, afterward, to the podcast!

The Washington City Paper‘s Eve Ottenberg writes, “This fiction focuses on the most important human relations, the ones central to our conceptions of who we are and what life is about. Ebenbach does this all while playing to his strength: using the small, the ordinary, the everyday to give little glimmering glimpses of the enormous, the extraordinary, and the startlingly true.”

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Writing as a Sacred Path’s Jill Jepson writes, “Each of these fifteen compact tales is built on crisp language, precise dialogue, and perfectly chosen details. But underneath their apparent simplicity lie fully realized characters living richly imagined lives of need, longing, desire, sorrow, loss, and love. These stories manage to be both delicately wrought and emotionally powerful. They are the kind of stories that read quick-and-easy, but pack a powerful punch.”

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INTO THE WILDERNESS, my new short story collection, is officially IN PRINT TODAY!

“For the very real people in David Ebenbach’s vivid and emotional stories,” says author Jesse Lee Kercheval, “becoming a parent—as Judith, the single mother in four of the stories, says—is going ‘into the wilderness.’” Says author Joan Leegant, “Ebenbach takes us deep into the heart of the messy confusion and terror and unfathomable love that make up that shaky state we call parenthood. These stories are fearless, honest and true.”

WANT TO GET YOUR OWN COPY? You can order Into the Wilderness through your local bookstore, or get one online,  at Powells, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Better World Books.

WANT TO CHECK IT OUT BEFORE BUYING? There’s more information on this website’s Into the Wilderness page.

Writes the Capital Times’ Stephanie Bedford: “[Ebenbach’s] gifts of perception and storytelling are anything but common. The stories in his book delve into the changes wrought by parenthood, an experience he explores from multiple angles like a photographer trying to capture an infinitely captivating subject…. Each story in ‘Into the Wilderness’ is like a sharp-focus snapshot of a moment of parenting: sad, funny, perplexing, but always honest.”

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Folks, big news: AUTOGEOGRAPHY, my first chapbook of poetry, is available for pre-order NOW!

If you’d like to reserve a copy, just go to the Finishing Line Press website. The book won’t be available anywhere else (e.g., Amazon) until it’s actually in print in January, but you can pre-order a copy at Finishing Line Press whenever you want!

Join David and other winners of the Washington Writers Publishing House’s Fiction Prize on SEPTEMBER 27 as they read from their short fiction and discuss short stories at the Fall for the Book Festival:

Where: Research I, Room 163 George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA
When: Thursday, Sep 27, 2012, 6:00pm-7:30pm

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Join David as he offers the opening convocation speech, “The Ethics of Creativity, or: How to Avoid (Greek) Tragedy,” at Earlham College, this Tuesday, August 21st, at 1:00 pm. Details HERE.

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Stay tuned once more! My book Into the Wilderness, a collection of short fiction about the varied experiences of parenting, has won the Washington Writers’ Publishing House Fiction Prize and will be published by WWPH this fall. Details to come!