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Fiction Short Stories (single Author)

Why They Cried

by (author) Jim Hanas

Publisher
ECW Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2010
Category
Short Stories (single author), Humorous
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781554909964
    Publish Date
    Oct 2010
    List Price
    $9.95

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Description

Whether it’s a report from the real Cannes or a young couple discovering that reading Jacques Derrida aloud can lull their child to sleep, Jim Hanas finds the strange in the everyday and the everyday in the strange. Hanas writes a lean and powerful line that makes even absurd situations?a man who cries professionally, a beauty queen leaving her slob boyfriend for an astronaut'seem painfully familiar. Why They Cried answers its own question and the answer is funnier than you think. 

About the author

Contributor Notes

Jim Hanas is the author of Cassingle and Single, two e-book collections of short stories that previously appeared in McSweeney's, Fence, One Story, The Land-Grant College Review, Bridge, Twelve Stories, and elsewhere. His non-fiction and humor pieces have appeared in Slate, Radar, Print, and The New York Post. He lives in New York.