Every Single Bone in My Brain - Softcover

Aaron Tillman is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Honors Program at Newbury College. He was a First-Place Winner in Glimmer Train Stories' Short-Story Award for New Writers and won First Prize in the Nancy Potter Short Story Contest at University of Rhode Island. His stories have appeared in Glimmer Train, The Madison Review, Arcadia Magazine, The Carolina Quarterly, great weather for MEDIA, Sou'wester, The Tishman Review, upstreet, Burrow Press Review,The Writer's Chronicle, Studies in American Humor, Symbolism, The CEA Critic, and The Intersection of Fantasy and Native America (Mythopoeic 2009).

These are terrific stories--inventive, brainy, and illuminating. Every Single Bone in My Brain is a collection full of surprise turns, sheer talent, and wild, affecting moments. --Joan Silber, author of Fools

Aaron Tillman's Every Single Bone in My Brain picks up where Malamud and Roth leave off, opening a new chapter in Jewish-American fiction. From a couple who try to conceal the birth of their critically-ill newborn from their parents to the romantic adventures of a man whose body carries a natural electric charge, Tillman's stories are distinguished by wit and mystery. Throughout this vibrant, vivid work, we are constantly reminded: These aren't your grandfather's Jews anymore. And yet, to a degree they are still as tormented and conflicted as if they stepped off the pages of a novel by Bellow or even Kafka. Surely, this is a collection not to be missed. --Jacob M. Appel, author of The Topless Widow of Herkimer Street

I'm always impressed by the sheer wizardry of writers who can make people sound like people on the page. Tillman creates people who not only sound like people they ARE people, come to life, flesh and blood and bone; all humanity and human foible burns right through this book. --Amber Sparks, author of The Unfinished World and Other Stories