charles Holdefer


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Ivan the terrible goes on a family picnic



Stories





From the American heartland to Hiroshima, to Paris, to shopping malls and caves with prehistoric art, Ivan the Terrible Goes on a Family Picnic is a wild ride across frontiers of the imagination.


"Charles Holdefer is an alchemist, transforming our national and human shortcomings into satiric gold." --Elizabeth McKenzie



Don't look at me



Novel





When an ex-basketball star discovers lost love letters from Emily Dickinson to an unknown Irish lover, she finds herself in the middle of today's battles over American culture in a nation at war with itself.


"Impressive breadth and depth … a pleasure to read.”

NEVERIMITATE



OTHER Books





Agitprop for Bedtime



Bring Me the Head of Mr. Boots



Magic Even You Can Do



Back in the Game



George Saunders' Pastoralia: Bookmarked



The Contractor



Dick Cheney in Shorts



Apology For Big Rod



Nice



Philip Larkin and the Poetics of Resistance