Signs of Life

Norman Waksler's newest collection of short stories, Signs of Life, is now available at Black Lawrence Press and various booksellers.

The Book of Regrets

Norman's previous collection of short stories, The Book of Regrets, is temporarily out of print, but a few copies are available from the Author.

In Good Company

Norman Waksler has also contributed a piece called In Good Company to the book recently published by the Friends of the Cambridge Public Library, called Cambridge Voices: a Literary Celebration of Libraries and the Joy of Reading. Other contributors include Alice Hoffman, Derrick Jackson, Robert Parker, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, Lois Lowry, and Gail Mazur (to name just a few). The book is available at local Cambridge bookstores.

Biography

Norman Waksler's short stories have appeared in a number of magazines, including Ascent, Kansas Quarterly, Greensboro Review, Hanging Loose, StoryQuarterly, Madison Review, Chaffin Journal, and Bibliophilos. "Markowitz and the Gypsies", originally published in Ascent, appeared in Best American Short Stories 1980. His story "Ruthie" won the 2004 Chaffin Award for Fiction. He was the recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Fiction for 1998.

Since college he has been a cab driver, warehouseman, bookseller, school teacher, janitor, magazine distributor, camp director, salesclerk, and most recently and for many years, librarian. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his sociologist wife and muse, Frances Chaput Waksler, and a moderate number of dogs, birds and turtles.

Appearances

Norman will be reading on Tuesday, March 2 2010, as part of the Fireside Reading Series, at Cambridge Co-Housing, 175 Richdale Ave, Cambridge. The program starts at 7:00 pm. For further info and directions contact Molly Watt (Mollywatt@comcast.net). Or go to the Fireside Reading website

If you would like to schedule a reading please send email to the author.