Charles Joe Baxter

The Business of Memory: The Art of Remembering in an Age of Forgetting (Graywolf Forum Three)

In the current information age, "memory" is as likely to be an attribute of a computer as a human being. In Graywolf Forum Three: The Business of Memory, editor Charles Baxter invites twelve creative writers to contemplate the externalization of what was once so deeply personal. The resulting essays...

There's Something I Want You to Do: Stories

From one of the great masters of the contemporary short story, here is an astonishing collection that showcases Charles Baxter’s unique ability to unveil the remarkable in the seemingly inconsequential moments of an eerie yet familiar life. Penetrating and prophetic, the ten inter-related stories i...

Through the Safety Net: stories

Baxter dives into the undercurrents of middle-class American life in these eleven arresting, often mesmerizing stories. Whether they know it or not, Baxter's characters are floating above an abyss of unruly desire, inexplicable dread, unforeseen tragedy, and sudden moments of grace.A drunken graduat...

There's Something I Want You to Do: Stories

From a contemporary master of the short story: a dazzling new collection—his first in fifteen years—that explores the unpredictable and mysterious in seemingly ordinary experience.These interrelated stories are arranged in two sections, one devoted to virtues (“Bravery,” “Loyalty,” “Chastity,” “Char...

Believers: A Novella and Stories

With his five previous books of fiction, Charles Baxter established himself as a contemporary literary master, in the traditions of Raymond Carver, William Maxwell, and Alice Munro. This radiant new collection confirms Baxter's ability to revel in the surfaces of seemingly ordinary lives while uncov...

The Feast of Love: A Novel

From "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune), here is a superb new novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people.The Feast of Love is just that -- a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing that most distracts and delights us. In a...

Gryphon: New and Selected Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)

Ever since the publication of his first story collection in 1984, Charles Baxter has slowly gained a reputation as one of America’s finest short story writers. Gryphon brings together sixteen classics with seven new stories, giving us the most complete portrait of his achievement.

The Soul Thief (Vintage Contemporaries)

As a graduate student in upstate New York, Nathaniel Mason is drawn into a tangle of relationships with people who seem to hover just beyond his grasp. There's Theresa, alluring but elusive, and Jamie, who is fickle if not wholly unavailable. But Jerome Coolberg is the most mysterious and compelling...

Through the Safety Net

First Light

A Relative Stranger

Shadow Play

Best New American Voices 2001

The Feast of Love

The Feast of Love

Saul and Patsy

Charles Baxter (author)

Charles Baxter (born May 13, 1947) is an American author of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Contents. [hide]. 1 Biography; 2 Career. 2.1 Teaching. 3 Works.

Charles Baxter (author)

Charles Baxter (born May 13, 1947) is an American author of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Contents. 1 Biography; 2 Career. 2.1 Teaching; 2.2 Writing. 3 Works.