{"product_id":"dancing-with-dasein-and-other-stories-paperback","title":"Dancing with Dasein and Other Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Morganstern\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this collection of fourteen stories---mostly set among working folks in the Hudson River Valley of New York---music, food, philosophy, and magic weave through tales that are by turns gritty, aching, and comical. Characters grapple with unfulfilled dreams in a dizzying, often alien culture. Meet a Bronx Italian Zen master with a baby and an ex-football-star partner...a young curator assigned to coddle an infamous avant-garde artist whose assistant threatens her marriage...a Homer scholar who disappears in a blizzard over a stone wall, never to be seen again...a failed graduate student who nearly gets paralyzed delivering a case of gourmet cat food to his Heidegger professor to settle a vague psychic debt...a reincarnating Ancient Egyptian chef who travels thousand of years from the banks of the Nile to a surf-crazed town in Southern California to open a bakery...and others. All are drawn with empathy and wry humor, observed through a sharp lens as they wrestle and waltz with the blunt challenge of being human---\u003cem\u003eDancing with Dasein.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Morganstern is a native of Schenectady, New York. He studied at the Manhattan School of Music, played bass fiddle, and toured with jazz and classical ensembles before deciding that music was not his best choice of profession. An avid reader and writer, he switched majors, studied with Edna O'Brien, Maureen Howard, and Jonathan Wordsworth, and graduated from the City University of New York with an MA in English\/Creative Writing. His fiction has appeared in Prima Materia, The Crescent City Review, Piedmont Literary Review, New Southern Literary Messenger, Hunger Magazine, Expresso Tilt, Mothering Magazine, and other journals, and was anthologized in Tribute to Orpheus II. He received an honorable mention for his story, \"Tomorrow's Special,\" published in the Chronogram 11\/06 Fiction Contest issue, selected by guest judge, Valerie Martin. Mark subs at the local high school (everything from physics to gym, occasionally even English) and books concerts for The Rosendale Cafe, a vegetarian eatery he owns with his wife Susan and their children. He hopes to retain that position despite his kids' threats to fire him for writing fiction on the job.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 292\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.66 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 24, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54051465691443,"sku":"9780692495759","price":23.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/KR9h9KMNpV9780692495759.webp?v=1788996153","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/dancing-with-dasein-and-other-stories-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}