"Dennis Barone......one of the more interesting--and adventuresome--of American fiction writers"

This from a review of my brother's new book,

On The Bus: Selected Stories,

which arrived in today's mail

and which I immediately started to read.

Self Portrait. January 3, 2011

I should add 

the cover photograph is by me

Let's read what Gray Jacobik writes about my brother's book:

"I love this book! Dennis Barone is a genius.

The verbal, rhetorical, gestural, imaginative resources he orchestrates--

or is it choreographs?--or is it paints--in

On The Bus: Selected Stories,

exhilarate at every turn

(riffs, digressions, conflations, elaborations, subtractions, puns, and so on),

tumble forth pell-mell, helter-skelter, topsy-turvy......

it's a celebration of language quo language married to the texture of existence."

My brother, Dennis Barone,

is the author or editor of twenty-two books,

professor of English and director of the American Studies program at Saint Joseph College 

and the former poet laureate of West Hartford, CT.

You may purchase the book here.