Anne Bernays

The first print edition of literary magazine Pangyrus includes stories from Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter, poems by Kim Stafford, David Rivard, Kiki Petrosino, and Jennie Barber, and essays by Timothy McCarthy, JD Scrimgeour, Eric LeMay and Carmen Nobel. Plus much more

Organized by the elements of fiction and comprised primarily of writing exercises, this text helps students hone and refine their craft with a practical, hands-on approach to writing fiction.

"Trophy House" is an extraordinary and complex novel, at one level a romantic thriller, at another a deeply satisfying story about the disintegration of a marriage and the consequences for all concerned -- that rare piece of fiction that is at once thrilling, grown-up and completely believable. It begins with the construction of a totally inappropriate and enormous house -- a "trophy house" -- which unexpectedly comes to threaten the tranquillity of what appears to be one woman's perfect life and marriage. Dannie Faber has lots of reasons to feel blessed. A children's book illustrator, she shares a loving marriage with Tom, an M.I.T. professor, with whom she divides her time between one of Boston's finest suburbs and a beloved beach house in Truro, on Cape Cod. And then, for reasons she could not possibly have foreseen, Dannie's life begins to unravel. With "Trophy House, " Anne Bernays -- author of "Professor Romeo" and "Growing Up Rich --" delivers a poignant, funny, and ultimately wrenching story of adults in peril and the unlikely hope for romance that, in the end, becomes the key to surviving events that are beyond their control. It is a brilliant and moving portrait of a marriage.

An anecdotal account of two people coming of age in privileged New York society is a dual memoir that traces the writing couple's careers in publishing, their married life, experiences in apartment living, and challenges as parents as they witness the social revolutions, McCarthyism, and Cold War of the second half of the twentieth century. Reprint.

As delightful and playful as it is profound and serious, "The Language of Names" is an absolute original -- a fascinating book that reveals us to ourselves, that demonstrates the endless variety of ways in which names shape our daily lives. Drawing on social and literary history, psychology and anthropology, anecdotes, and life stories, biographer Justin Kaplan and novelist Anne Bernays have written a fascinating account of names and naming in contemporary society that touches on class structure, ethnic and religious practices, manners, and everyday life. Graceful, eloquent, and richly informed, "The Language of Names" explores and illuminates our favorite subject -- ourselves.