In Crazy Water: Six Fictions, Lori Baker pushes the boundaries between truth and reality with curious, tragi-comic results. The imagination is Baker's terrain, and in these stories, pleasant suburban childhoods, family drives, seaside vacations, and ...
Fiction. A small story occuring between the frames of a romance and a mystery, half-concealed behind an efflorescence of Joycean language. Thus did Mrs. Tansleigh-Smythe see them -- the moody Canadian head followed by the disorderly titan head follow...
Sometimes wildly funny, yet often serious, jarringly uncanny yet realistic, the stories in Lori Baker's Crash & Tell seem to come from a different time and place. In her darkly whimsical world, Baker plays with a variety of narrative voices and st...
"I write in retrospect, from the vantage of a distant shore." Flame-haired, six-foot-two in stocking feet, eighteen-year-old Carlotta Dell’oro recounts the lives of her parents -- solitary glassmaker Leopoldo Dell’oro and beautiful, unreachable C...