Glimmer Train Stories, #91

by Susan Burmeister-Brown (Editor), Linda B. Swanson-Davies (Editor), Joseph Chavez

Stories by:

Joseph Chavez
Siamak Vossoughi
Melissa R. Sipin
Mehdi Tavana Okasi
Sean Padraic McCarthy
Eugene Cross
Elizabeth Kadetsky
Kim Brooks
Robert Powers
Gil Filar
E.A. Durden

Also:
Interview with Junot Díaz by David Naimon
Silenced Voices: Ales Bialiatski, by Cathal Sheerin

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014

About the author

You will not find much biographical information around the web about Susan Burmeister-Brown. She co-founded Glimmer Train with her sister Linda B. Swanson-Davis, and Susan and Linda are the current editors of Glimmer Train, one of the top literary journals in the country. If you walk on to a college campus or find someone who follows contemporary literature, they might not know Susan, but they will certainly know her achievements and influence in the literary world. Glimmer Train has been publishing for 18 years, and the publication is consistently outstanding. Susan is a lover of fiction and stories.

Reviews

[D. · Rating 3 out of 5]

I got this book from my universities private collection on the countlesspraises of glimmer Tain. And glimmer train as a literary magazine is great in many ways. However, whole I expected to like this collection of short stories and essays, I didn't. That's not to say the book isnt good. It might just be that the type of style is just not for me. In any case, I'm not as much of a fan as others are. I found most of the stories boring except for "Miss Me Forever" by Eugene Cross. Out of all 14 that one stuck out as the most interesting and well written.