The Singular Exploits of Wonder Mom & Party Girl

Audrey Corcoran never dreamed she’d try cocaine, but a year after a bitter divorce, she meets a man named Owen Little who convinces her that a little buzz might be exactly what she needs to lift her spirits. And why not? He’s already turned her on to jazz, and no one in his circle of friends ever thinks twice about getting high. Soon, however, her escalating drug use puts a strain on Audrey’s relationship with her daughters, and she begins to sell cocaine from her home in order to subsidize her habit. At turns horrifying and hilarious, The Singular Exploits of Wonder Mom and Party Girl offers a scathing indictment of American consumer culture and the wildly conflicting demands it makes upon women.

The Singular Exploits of Wonder Mom and Party Girl

Literature & Fiction

Marc Schuster

Mythology & Folk Tales

PS Books

Like the first volume, this second best-of anthology offers a wide selection of the literary voices that make Philadelphia so unique. Authors include doctors, lawyers, students, teachers, journalists, playwrights, and a homicide detective all talented writers who spend their precious free time honing their craft. James W. Morris (Regalia) grew up in Philadelphia and worked as a monologue writer for Jay Leno. David Sanders (School of Fishes) has been widely published and was the founder of the InterAct Theatre Company's Writing Aloud reading series. Ona Russell (The (O)ther Kahn) is the grand-neice of Philadelphia architect Louis Kahn; she is now working on her third Sarah Kaufman mystery. This is just a sampling of the many diverse voices featured in the second Philadelphia Stories anthology. We asked our board and our readers to select their favorites from the magazine and website, and this work is included in the anthology, says Carla Spataro, co-publisher and fiction editor of Philadelphia Stories. We re really proud of the fact that we've published both first time authors and more established writers. The anthology pulls everything together in a really beautifully presented package. We re proud of that, too.

The Best of Philadelphia Stories 2

VARIOUS

Literary

Writers from all over the world have come together as one voice in Prompted, an anthology that explores the human condition via poetry, personal essays, and fiction. From internationally published author Julie Compton (Tell No Lies, Rescuing Olivia) to first-time poet Marsha Pincus, Prompted’s connective tissue lies in a deep love and respect for the craft of writing. Flavored by a diverse core of creative talent, Prompted is edited by Alison Hicks, MFA, who has been prompting writers in the Greater Philadelphia Wordshop Studio (GPWS) since its genesis in 1996. Hicks has published two books: a novella (Love: A Story of Images) and a volume of poetry (Falling Dreams). Prompted is the first GPWS anthology, inspired by 13 years of work.The Greater Philadelphia Wordshop Studio began in October 1996 with five people who met for three hours once a week in a church in Philadelphia. The process was the same then as it is today, and the workshop still meets in that same church. Hicks began a similar workshop in the Delaware County/Main Line in 1999.

Prompted

Maria Theresa Casale

United States

Philadelphia attorney David Gold has never done a daring thing in his life-until he meets Jacob Feig, a survivor of Auschwitz who stands accused of murder. "In the end, "Feig" is really David Gold's book. As he listens to the stories of survivors, he emerges from his safe isolation-and his insistence that they share their hardest, deepest secrets leads to a deeper connection to the world." -Simone Zelitch, author of "Louisa" and Assistant Chair of Literature and Creative Writing, Community College of Philadelphia

Feig

Bank, Richard D.

Extraordinary Gifts celebrates 20 remarkable women with Philadelphia connections - including Louisa May Alcott, Margaret Mead, Mary Cassatt, and Marian Anderson - with original art, poetry, and fiction by contemporary artists and writers from the Philadelphia area. Each of the women this volume honors, some familiar and some less well known, have changed the world through their courage to think outside the box, to go against convention, and to defy society's expectations for their gender. The stories of these women span over two centuries of local and global history.

Extraordinary Gifts: Remarkable Women of the Delaware Valley

Arts & Photography

"Pet lovers will lap up every word." -John Grogan, author of Marley &amp; Me When copywriter Anne Kaier stops traffic to rescue a stray cat, neither she nor the cat knows what lies in store ... You'll lose yourself in this witty, true-life story of how Anne hopes a beguiling cat called Henry can help her as a single woman in the amped-up city. But first, how will she lure Henry out from under the bed-when not even her ten-year-old nephew can get him to stir?

Home with Henry

Biographies & Memoirs

Kaier, Anne

Community & Culture

50 Over 50 is a superb collection of poetry, essays, and fiction by women over 50. This anthology features work by notable authors like Robin Black, Bonnie Jo Campbell, J.C. Todd, Vickie A. Carr, and Rachel Pastan. While many of the writers included are emerging authors, all of the work has something funny, thoughtful, and compelling to say about sex, family, loss, and love.

50 Over 50

Come As You Are is a novel about balancing work, family, and a chick rock band. Margo Bevelacqua is a gorgeous siren with a successful gardening show on The Outdoor Network. Kit Greene is a single mother living back at home with her aging father. Ten years earlier, these thirty-something women were best friends who played in the late 90s Philadelphia girl group, Broad Street. Time and circumstances drove them apart, but when they get an invitation to play the esteemed Women of Rock national tour, they put aside their differences to reform their old band. The women must contend with stalkers, crazy celebrities, married television executives, and eccentric parents to find ways to harmonize the many facets of their lives. Come As You Are is a sequel to Weiser's debut novel, Broad Street, described by the Philadelphia Inquirer as a "terrific Philadelphia rock roman a clef."

Come as You Are

Weiser, Christine

Grant Clauser's newest collection of poems The Magician's Handbook uses the surreal and the speculative to examine the beauty and hardship in the everyday. At once magical and mundane, these poems follow the Magician who starts as a neophyte and, like most of us hope, ends as a Magus.

The Magician's Handbook

Clauser, Grant

Poetry

Insomniatic is the newest poetry chapbook from Valerie Fox, author of The Roschach Factory and The Glass Book. These poems haunt and question, dream and wander, asking the reader to question what is a dream state and what does it mean to be awake.

Insomniatic

Fox, Valerie

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