Nowhere Is Always Somewhere

by Robert Earle

In the six tales of Nowhere is Always Somewhere, short story master Robert Earle again creates compelling characters caught up in life’s dramas all over the Americans imprisoned in Bolivia…homeless kids forging a relationship under a bridge in L.A. …a man whose writer daughter understands him better than he thinks…a Brit encountering the Chechen insurgent who cast him off as a child…a young girl challenging her father’s racism in the South…a son humbled by his father’s nursing home experience in Pennsylvania...

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Published September 13, 2017

About the author

I began reading intensively when I was 10 or so and writing intensively when I was about 15 or 16. I studied literature and writing at Princeton (undergraduate) and Johns Hopkins (graduate) and then spent two decades earning a living as a diplomat. During that time, I wrote on the side, publishing short stories in little magazines. In my fifties, I was able to retire--sort of--and published my first novel, The Way Home (2004) just before I was recruited to go to Baghdad to help the United States conclude the war its invasion of Iraq in 2003 had started. As you will have noticed, the war kept going, but you can assess my efforts to get us out of that conflict in my book, Nights in the Pink Motel: An American Strategist's Pursuit of Peace in Iraq. It has been described as a non-fiction novel, which is a fairly good characterization. My latest book, just released, is a collection of short stories, She Receives the Night (Vine Leaves), focusing on women around the world; the common theme, regardless of age, location or station, is the way in which women end up bearing the burdens of life's darkness so all of us may have some light.

I have published more than 100 short stories altogether. They can be found in the following magazines: Mississippi Review, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Iron Horse Literary Review, Blue Moon, Consequence, The MacGuffin, 34th Parallel, Smokelong.com, Nassau Lit, Hurricane Review, Black and White, Tryst, Prick of the Spindle, Chiron Review, Pangolin Papers, Iconoclast, Main Street Rag, Potomac Review, Quarterly West, Louisville Review, and elsewhere.