FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Mark Givens / 909-293-9270 / mark.givens@pelekinesis.com

Fourteen very different stories about the variety of human conditions, the scope of thought, and the diversity of experience.

Title: Heiberg's Twitch
Author: Robert Wexelblatt
Category: Fiction
Publication Date: January 12, 2016
Pages: 344
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-938349-30-0
Suggested Retail Price: $25.00

Claremont, CA – August 1, 2015 – Pelekinesis is pleased to present Robert Wexelblatt's Heiberg's Twitch, a collection of short stories populated by schoolboys and poets, dictators and delinquents, college girls and composers, businessmen and scientists.

The fourteen stories in Heiberg's Twitch were not selected for their resemblance to one another, but for their differences in character, tone, and form. The aim is to deploy imagination and invention to furnish tales about the variety of human conditions, the scope of thought, the diversity of experience. Settings range from a Scandinavian island to ancient Chinese courts, from the streets of Hyde Park in Boston to the galleries of midtown Manhattan, from Southern California to Eastern Europe, from Africa to South America—in one story, both continents at once. The stories are populated by schoolboys and poets, dictators and delinquents, college girls and composers, businessmen and scientists. Each tale conjures its own world, has its own language, aims to illuminate a distinct experience, a unique situation. Like human life, the stories in Heiberg's Twitch are comic, sad, pathetic, perplexing, and tragic.

Heiberg's Twitch by Robert Wexelblatt will be available January 12, 2016 through Baker & Taylor, Bertrams, directly from the publisher's website, and in fine local bookstores worldwide.

The page at Pelekinesis for supplemental material is here: http://www.pelekinesis.com/catalog/robert_wexelblatt-heibergs_twitch.html

About the author

Robert Wexelblatt is professor of humanities at Boston University's College of General Studies. He has published three previous story collections, Life in the Temperate Zone, The Decline of Our Neighborhood, and The Artist Wears Rough Clothing; a book of essays, Professors at Play; two short novels, Losses and The Derangement of Jules Torquemal, and essays, stories, and poems in a variety of scholarly and literary journals. His novel Zublinka Among Women was awarded the Indie Book Awards first-place prize for fiction.

About the publisher

Pelekinesis is an independent book publishing company focusing on the development of literary-minded authors and artists by embracing the evolving publishing paradigm and creatively supporting the skills of these talented individuals. Full catalog and press material can be found at http://www.pelekinesis.com

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