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Edith Pearlman

Edith Pearlman received the 2011 PEN/Malamud award for short fiction, honoring her four collections of short stories: Vaquite, Love Among the Greats, How to Fall, and Binocular Vision, published by Lookout Books, received the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award. It was a finalist for other prizes: the National Book Award, the Story Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Award. This is her fourth appearance in Ecotone.

Fiction  – 

What the Ax Forgets the Tree Remembers

                                                                        I. The first hint of trouble came early in the morning. The telephone rang on Gabrielle’s desk in the lobby—her glass-topped, strategically placed desk: she could see everyone, anyone could see her. “It’s Selene,”…
Fiction  – 

•Vallies

Desmond Chapin opened his door to a spare, plainly dressed woman of about forty, nose tilted, reddish hair in a strict bun. “Miss . . .” “Valerie Gordon,” she said. “The new nanny.” “Well .
Nonfiction  – 

Borrowing Life: Berry Morgan’s “The Hill”

Berry Morgan—does anyone in the reading community recognize that name? But though now nearly lost to the world of letters, she once conducted a flourishing career. In 1966 Houghton Mifflin published her novel, Pursuit, and awarded her a Literary Fellowship…
Fiction  – 

•The Ministry of Restraint

Had he ever seen such unappealing trams? Aquamarine, with azalea swirls. But: “Beauty is secondary,” Alain reassured the mayor of Muñez. “My wife would find something to praise.” And so she would, the generous Isabella. Isabella was blond,