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Steve Himmer is the author of the novels The Bee-Loud Glade, Fram, and Scratch (coming 2016). His short stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in The Millions, Ploughshares online, Post Road, Los Angeles Review, Hobart, and other anthologies and journals. He edits the webjournal Necessary Fiction teaches at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. ...more

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	The Bee-Loud Glade 3.66 avg rating — 337 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fram 3.43 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scratch 3.54 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brevity & Echo: An Anthology of Short Short Stories by Abigail Beckel (Editor), Kathleen Rooney (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Chip Cheek (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.18 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Field Guide to Surreal Botany by Janet Chui (Editor, Illustrator), Jason Erik Lundberg (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Shveta Thakrar 4.16 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Re:Telling by William Walsh (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michael Martone, Corey Mesler (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Second Most Dangerous Job in America 3.91 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hobart #11: The Great Outdoors by Aaron Burch (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mike Alber, Lydia Conklin (Goodreads Author) 4.63 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Clock: Contemporary Short Stories of Work by Jeff Vande Zande (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Josh Maday (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Pete Fromm (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Monkeybicycle (Monkeybicycle, #8) by Steven Seighman (Editor), Michael Hickins (Goodreads Author), Scott Geiger 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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I’m excited to share that my novel Scratch will be published in...

I’m excited to share that my novel Scratch will be published in the UK this summer by Wundor Editions, the first of my books to travel abroad.

It’s a particular thrill to see it listed in Waterstones’ catalog, because their stores in Boston and Glasgow were formative places for me as a reader and writer. (And if anyone spots a copy on the shelf in Sauchiehall Street, picture please!)

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The Inland Sea

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Ash before Oak

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“If I've learned anything at all from the river it's to let jarring events come and go, that such tiny disruptions have no more weight in the world than fallen leaves on the water. A few ripples, a barely audible splash, and the surface soon returns to order. To swim toward each intrusion, to fish out a leaf and to sling it ashore, only prolongs the disturbance.”
― Steve Himmer, The Bee-Loud Glade

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“How can you make sense of a place if it won't hold still to be counted and even its colors aren't fast? Their job was to imagine, never to know. The truth, as generations of directors had reminded their charges, would only get in the way.”
― Steve Himmer, Fram

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“There had been vague threats and seductive hands and nachos and beer, but Oscar hadn't noticed an offer, per se.”
― Steve Himmer, Fram

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Steve’s Quotes

“This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of those unbridled passions, stretching over many years, and at times making their effect felt on several generations? We’re a long way from Wuthering Heights, to say the least. The novel form is not conceived for depicting indifference or nothingness; a flatter, more terse, and dreary discourse would need to be invented.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Whatever

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