Built in about 1475, and in parts possibly much earlier, this typical East Anglian timber framed building was home to Christopher Jones, the famous captain of the ship Mayflower which took the Pilgrim Fathers to Cape Cod in 1620, returning in 1621. It was previously his father's house and the more famous son enlarged the house to its present extent by joining two nearly contiguous medieval houses to benefit his growing family and status as a burgess of the borough of Harwich. The building ...

The author of the critically acclaimed Frog presents a collection of what he considers to be his finest short fiction that incisively captures the absurdities of urban America, the nature of modern relationships, and the complexities of human life

In Movies, his fourth collection of stories, Stephen Dixon demonstrates more forcefully than ever before the depth and range of his work. Here Dixon draws on a full range of tones, from the farcical to the tragic, and a wide spectrum of themes and styles, each suited to a particular quandary, to fashion a collection in which each story amplifies and reverberates against all of the others.The motif that connects the stories is ‘the movies’: not only the movies that people s...

Stephen Dixon’s first book, a short story collection with five stories about love and the indifference, the whimsicality of the comings and goings of romance.

The long-awaited novel by master Stephen Dixon, twice a finalist for the National Book Award, I. is a searingly powerful and seemingly autobiographical novel in the form of linked stories that explores the limitations of memory and the frustrations of the narrator's life, as he cares for his two daughters and his handicapped wife, whose condition worsens as the narrator struggles with his own sense of mortality.

The four interconnected narratives which comprise Man on Stage mark both an experiment and a departure for Stephen Dixon, the widely acclaimed author of over three hundred short stories and the recent novels Frog and Interstate. Working for the first time within the expanded format of the philosophical monologue, complete with internalized stage directions, Dixon gives free range to themes ranging from the relationship of man to woman, parent to child and created to creator. The r...

Mary and Newt meet (or are nudged towards each other) and fall in love in NYC. Dixon captures the joys of falling in love, the horrors of falling out and everything that happens in between with his standard ear for language and dialog.

Frog is a complex and paradoxical character: petulant, compulsive, overbearing, hostile, and self-righteous, but also imaginative, loving, kind, and strong. No matter how exasperating he gets, it's still hard not to care about him. His story is a nonsequential patchwork of flashbacks, real and imagined stories, and retellings from various perspectives.

This prose fiction novel, written by literary prizewinner Stephen Dixon, replicates the consciousness of a jilted man.Stephen Dixon, one of America’s great literary treasures, has completed his first novel in five years — His Wife Leaves Him, a long, intimate exploration of the interior life of a husband who has lost his wife. His Wife Leaves Him is as achingly simple as its title: A man, Martin, thinks about the loss of his wife, Gwen. In Dixon’s...

One of Dixon's earlier short story collections.

Shaney Fleet is the owner of a working-class bar, and his problem is garbage. When a private hauler tries to coerce Shaney into purchasing collection services, he resists. Soon no hauler will remove his black-listed trash, and garbage that is not even his own begins to appear at his front door. Ultimately, his apartment is torched, his head bashed in, and his bar closed by the health department. In this well-wrought parable of modern urban life, literal garbage becomes a metaphor for the p...

Draws a portrait of an American man through a collection of shorter stories documenting his romantic and sexual encounters over the course of forty years, showing the pain and wonder of love that are such a part of life in the modern world