(b.Sam is the author of Venus Drive, a collection of short stories, and The Subject Steve, a novel.
His work has appeared in The New York Times and The Quarterly.
He was born in 1968, and got married in 2003.
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Us (2005)
Michael Kimball
"Michael Kimball never ceases to astonish. He is a hero of contemporary fiction."
Trance (2005)
Christopher Sorrentino
"...scathing, gripping and profound, this book is a meditation and a provocation..."
Grab On to Me Tightly As If I Knew the Way (2006)
Bryan Charles
"As brave and funny a debut as I've read in a long time."
Buffalo Lockjaw (2009)
Greg Ames
"Buffalo Lockjaw, like its charming, bitter screw-up of a narrator, reaches finally for larger meaning, and succeeds. . . . A brazen and tender book about a city and a scene, a mother and a son, and the beauty and pain of several kinds of love."
Firework (2010)
Eugene Marten
"There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten's prose."
Here Comes Another Lesson (2010)
Stephen O'Connor
"The main lesson of this book is that there are still fiction writers out there brave enough to take serious risks. For O'Connor, the risks pay off lavishly. Here is a collection of great feeling, range, and power."
Baby & Other Stories (2010)
Paula Bomer
"These stories bleed, yes, but that's because they brawl. The real houswives of Bomerworld break themselves and break your heart and yet never completely lose their soulful dignity."
Middle Men (2013)
Jim Gavin
"Jim Gavin's stories are wise and funny and not at all afraid of the dark, or the light. Middle Men is a very powerful debut."
All Back Full (2017)
Robert Lopez
"[Lopez'f fiction] bears genetic traces of Beckett and Stein, but [his]powerful cadences and bleak, joyful wit are all his own."
Spaceman of Bohemia (2017)
Jaroslav Kalfar
"Spaceman of Bohemia represents the fiery, funny launch of an exciting new voice. Jaroslav Kalfar, like a good literary astronaut, finds levity in gravity, and vice versa."
Wait Till You See Me Dance (2017)
Deb Olin Unferth
"Deb Olin Unferth is one of the most daring and entertaining writers in America today."
A Little More Human (2017)
Fiona Maazel
"Listen, skip the blurbs and just buy the damn book. Fiona Maazel is one of the funniest and finest we've got."
Perennials (2017)
Mandy Berman
"Perennials is a sharp, crushingly observant, and empathetic debut, full of wit and tragedy, and good for all seasons."
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