The Nachman Stories

The Nachman StoriesThe Nachman Stories brings together for the first time in a single volume Leonard Michaels stories focused on the Los Angeles mathematician Raphael Nachman as their hero. Written at the end of the authors life, between 1997 and 2003, the Nachman series is praised as the capstone to the career of a master of the American short story. As Robert Pinsky writes in his preface, it is the final, remarkable accomplishment of a great stylist turning his gift

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There he was appointed Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory and later Emerson Poet in Residence

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She is known for her comic sensibility and occupies an admired place as an observer of the humorous and absurd in contemporary fiction and in society

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