Photo by Ploi Pirapokin
- This last weekend Jane McDermott, winner of the Michael Rubin Book Award, released her first book with Fourteen Hills Press! Thank you to everyone who came out and supported the event, the evening was beautiful and the company sublime. Thank you to Green Apple Books for hosting us. And a special thank you to Jacob M. Appel for judging this year's award!
"Into tiny prose packages McDermott packs humor, wisdom, smarts, beauty, drama and more to make this world seem bigger, more expansive, and full of wonderful strangeness…Yes, size does matter. In Look Busy we find that small is all. These diminutive, powerful stories reveal a very big imagination and an even bigger heart."
—Toni Mirosevich, author of The Takeaway Bin
"..Look Busy serves up a series of micro-stories that exist somewhere between the whimsical and the jaded—as though the plays of Sarah Ruhl had swallowed the stories of Lydia Davis. McDermott's prose is sharp, funny and poignant. Most important, the writing rings with honesty and vulnerability…amusing and clever on the first reading, charming and poignant on the second reading, and thoroughly captivating on the third reading and beyond."
—Jacob M. Appel, author of The Biology of Luck
"Jane is a phenomenal reader, writer, and human being, and the way she captured the audience made for one amazing night." - Ploi Pirapokin
For those who were unable to make it out to this special release night, never fear, Look Busy; One Hundred 100-word Stories by and for the Easily Distraced is available at SPD books. Buy it now! Fourteen Hills; The SFSU Review