Eating Naked

In his first collection of stories, Stephen Dobyns, one of our most accomplished writers, examines the lives of men and women challenged by their own uncontrollable, illogical natures: poets with free-floating guilt, spouses with unacceptable sexual compulsions, farmers with midlife crises. Marriages unravel, well-laid plans dissolve, and placid lives are turned upside down in this sharp, funny, and profound collection of short fiction.AUTHORBIO: Stephen Dobyns is the author of nine volumes of poetry; a book of essays, and nineteen novels, including The Church of Dead Girls and Boy in the Water. His short stories have won the Pushcart Prize and appeared in The Best American Short Stories. He lives near Boston with his wife and three children.