To celebrate the classic film’s landmark 40th anniversary, presents “Empire at 40,” a special series of interviews, editorial features, and listicles. On May 21, 1980, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back made its theatrical debut. He lives in Springfield, Missouri, with his family.Meet many of the contributors to the upcoming anthology! He is an assistant professor at Missouri State University and Managing Editor of Moon City Review. In 2010, he received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship for his fiction. Michael Czyzniejewski is the author of three collections of stories: Elephants in Our Bedroom (Dzanc Books, 2009), Chicago Stories: 40 Dramatic Fictions (Curbside Splendor, 2012). Arthur Nersesian, author of Gladyss of the Hunt You'll read these brief stories too quickly, then go back and keep finding more." Czyzniejewski creates beautiful literary riddles by colliding the amusingly banal with the intensely personal, like crashing meteors that create explosions of the urbane, profane and surreal. "Not since Donald Barthelme have I read such an original and confident writer. You’ll love these stories for the rest of your life." It’s the crooked stick that makes the best nest. The plots boom-a-rang nearly to the edge of the atmosphere and it’s because of Czyzniejewski’s deep empathy for his characters that he brings us back, breathless and heart-struck. "There’s a strange and beautiful alchemy at work in these feverishly-funny and wicked shorts. Rebecca Makkai, author of The Hundred-Year House "There are stories that get you in the heart, and then there are stories that punch you in the kidneys. Charles Yu, author of How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe A brilliant and entertaining collection-and one I'll be returning to again and again." Czyzniejewski is a funny, smart writer, crafting characters and situations with abundant wit and heart. "These stories are perfect gems: polished for clarity, cut with precision by an expert hand so that they throw off light and color. "Sharp and funny, with reach and heart, these stories serve as an exhibit of the many ways love can get the hell out." "These sometimes sublime, sometimes raunchy slices of love lives coming apart more closely resemble molecular gastronomy-a medium where a creation's parts are transformed through close attention and high pressure into something completely different." PRAISE FOR I WILL LOVE YOU FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE: BREAKUP STORIES: The heart wants what it wants, but it doesn't always last forever. Self-doubt, unshakable distrust, unrequited longing, and the prospect of eternal loneliness haunt these romantics. An astronaut’s husband cheats while his wife is in space a scallop opens a portal to another dimension a man exploits his peanut allergy for kinky sex a blind date turns into a bestial kidnapping. In I Will Love You For the Rest of My Life: Breakup Stories, Michael Czyzniejewski examines twenty-nine cases of human love at their most critical junctures, bearing witness to the absurdity of longing.
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