Learning the Game

by William Taeusch

These stories are about loves lost, gained, transformed, perverted, misused, or misunderstood. They take place for the most part in the here and now in disparate locales (Santa Barbara, Cleveland, Brooklyn, Venice, San Francisco, and Israel) among kids and adults, men and women, and occasionally, their dogs. Try the preview button to see the first couple of stories. The author is a neonatologist and a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California-San Francisco. He has studied the craft of fiction for over twenty-five years at Harvard, University of California-Berkeley, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and the Southern Oregon Writers' Conference. He is a founding member of the San Francisco writing group (Fictional Sluts). He lives with his wife in Oakland and Jerusalem where he is at work on his next novel. (btaeusch@post.harvard.edu)

225 pages, Paperback

First published June 25, 2008