CLOSE Found Press Quarterly, Summer 2011 • $3.75

The latest collection by Found Press is Close, featuring our trademark line-up of celebrated literary veterans and exciting up-and-comers. Like those convex side-view mirrors displaying objects that are closer than they appear, the narratives in Close unfold to reveal a potentially distorted reflection of events. They make us question the reality presented, and allow us to discover the confounding truths within.

Thought-provoking, engrossing, and downright entertaining, Close is the perfect escape on those hazy summer days.

*Signature Editions: Exclusive to the FP Store, a special Signature Edition cover is now available, signed by all the wonderful authors who have contributed work to this collection. Simply choose the “Signature Edition” option when selecting your file format of choice.

Featuring stories by Caroline Adderson, Richard Rosenbaum, Dave Margoshes, and Maria Meindl.

Praise

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for Obscure Objects by Caroline Adderson:

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“Caroline Adderson is such a graceful and intelligent writer that the work that must surely go into creating her hilarious, prismatic stories is never betrayed in the language. There is no strain on the page, not a bead of sweat. I think of her as a writer’s writer. I envy her talent and learn from her sentences. The short story, Obscure Objects, is, I’m happy to report, Adderson at her glorious best.”
— Barbara Gowdy, author of Helpless and The White Bone

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for The Oughts by Richard Rosenbaum:

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“Richard Rosenbaum’s The Oughts jabs its sticky little fingers right into your heart and swirls them around in there for a long, long time. Its characters unfold in pitch-perfect awkwardness and tender apathy, and readers will be struck by the surreal hinges and twitching imagery that Rosenbaum flawlessly weaves in. Writers in the audience should take note: Rosenbaum has created a writhing work of fiction that any scribe would aspire to be capable of pulling off.”
— Liz Worth, author of Treat Me Like Dirt: An Oral History of Punk in Toronto and Beyond and Eleven: Eleven

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for Bright Lights on Broadway by Dave Margoshes:

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“Margoshes gives us the life of Charlie Weinheimer: quadruple bypass patient, widower whose children all die tragically young, but not a whiner. In his hospital bed at age seventy-seven, he’s seen it all, right? Well, maybe not. Watch as Margoshes calls upon his raconteur skills to thicken the plot.”
— David Carpenter, winner of the 2010 Saskatchewan Book Award for A Hunter’s Confession

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for The Last Judgment by Maria Meindl:

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“The Last Judgment is a story that penetrates into the heart of childhood sadness. Carrie is without tools to fix what is broken, except for the incredible force of her will. The connections she makes between religion, parental failure, sexuality, and love make perfect sense because they are told in her bell-clear voice. This story is warm and tragic and, at moments, grimly funny.”
— Rebecca Rosenblum, author of Once and Road Trips

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