Jeanne M. Leiby (1964–2011)
Author of Downriver
About the Author
Works by Jeanne M. Leiby
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1964-09-03
- Date of death
- 2011-04-19
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Place of death
- Louisiana, USA
- Places of residence
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Education
- University of Michigan (BA)
Bread Loaf School of English/Middlebury College (MA)
University of Alabama (MFA) - Occupations
- editor
teacher
short-story writer - Organizations
- The Southern Review (editor-in-chief)
Florida Review (editor-in-chief)
Black Warrior Review (fiction editor)
University of Central Florida
Members
Reviews
Awards
Statistics
- Works
- 13
- Members
- 16
- Popularity
- #679,947
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 2
- ISBNs
- 1
“I will work forty hours a week clerking at the painstore.”
-from a poem by Donald Hall. I’d rushed,
and glazed over the t
and yet my accidental revision
feels right for the crabbed, defensive life
that Hall gives voice to, and in fact
for Ace Digornio, who I knew
when I was a child and who did
spend forty hours every week behind the counter
at Talman’s Home Décor and Paint Store.
As You've Planned It by Line-Maria Lång, read here by the author - A very short (3 page) story about sitting with a loved one who is dying.
Welcome, Lost Dogs by Vanessa Blakeslee – A woman struggles with her life alone in Costa Rica after the kidnapping of her rescue dogs.
The Moviegoer, Fifty Years Later by Robert Lacy – A review of the classic New Orleans book which I really need to get to this year.
Groundscratchers by Gabriel Welsch]] – Very interesting story of a grounds supervisor at a large estate as his life falls apart.
Paintings by Ed Smith – exotic paintings of clumps of birds.
Action Figure by Adam Prince – Pretty freaky narrative tracing a meth addict’s descent.
Section 8 by Jaquira Diaz – A powerful and sad tale of two friends discovering their sexuality in a neighborhood dangerous for those who are different.… (more)