Ebook {Epub PDF} Could You Be With Her Now: Two Novellas by Jen Michalski

 · Jen Michalski explores what it means to be vulnerable in a modern society. At first blush, it appears that the only thing that the two novellas that comprise Jen Michalski’s collection Could You Be With Her Now have in common is that both are penned by .  · Not so Jen Michalski. Michalski, a Baltimore-based writer and editor, knows exactly what she is doing when it comes to choosing form to suit a particular narrative function. The umbrella title for the two novellas, Could You Be With Her Now, comes from a line in the second pertaining to a fleeting, fiery romance with a lover, long dead, and.  · "Could You Be With Her Now, a book of two novellsa, is one of the most writerly books I've come across in awhile. What I mean is, Michalski gave a lot of thought to how she wanted to write these stories and then executed them so beautifully that the result is a piece of art to be admired as it is absorbed." – Lindsey Silken, Hello GigglesCategory: Free.

For Baltimore author Jen Michalski, is shaping up to be the Year of the Book Party. In a nine-month period, the year-old freelance medical copywriter is having three works of fiction in. Could You Be With Her Now by Jen Michalski is an excellent collection of 2 novellas. The first novella is called I Can make it to California by Dinner Time--about a mentally handicapped boy named Jimmy who strangles a young girl and goes on the run through America with a truck driver who personifies "stranger danger". Jen Michalski currently lives in Carlsbad, California. (Black Lawrence Press, December ). She is the author of two collections of fiction, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS (So New, ) and FROM HERE (Aqueous Books, ) and a collection of novellas, COULD YOU BE WITH HER NOW (Dzanc Books, ). She also edited the anthology CITY SAGES: BALTIMORE.

"Could You Be With Her Now, a book of two novellsa, is one of the most writerly books I've come across in awhile. What I mean is, Michalski gave a lot of thought to how she wanted to write these stories and then executed them so beautifully that the result is a piece of art to be admired as it is absorbed." – Lindsey Silken, Hello Giggles. Could You Be With Her Now by Jen Michalski Dzanc Books, pages / $ Buy from Amazon or Dzanc Books. Stephen King called novellas an “ill-defined and disreputable literary banana republic.” In Jen Michalski’s Could You Be With Her Now, she gives us two very different samples of the republic. “May-September” is about a May-December romance and is lyrically written with a fascinating sensuality exploring relationships through the rhythms of music and stories. In her collection of novellas, Could You Be with Her Now, Jen Michalski showcased an incredible range in only two stories, capturing the voice of a mentally-challenged teenage boy and delicately portraying the joy and heartbreak of a relationship between two women of drastically different ages.