About the Author

Alvin Greenberg’s fourth short story collection, How the Dead Live, appeared in 1998 from Graywolf Press and a CD of the author reading his story, “the Power of Language” (previously included in Best American Short Stories) was released as Issue #6 of VOYS, a journal of the spoken word. Other short fiction has recently been published in Indiana Review, Mid American Review, Nebraska Review, American Literary Review, Five Points, and Salt Hill. His most recent books of poetry are Heavy Wings (Ohio Review Press) and Why We Live With Animals (Coffee House Press); Apollonia’s Circus, his 1994 opera in collaboration with composer Eric Stokes, was hailed by one reviewer as “a major work;” and The Music of Silence, a collection of personal essays, was published by the University of Utah Press in 2002. His poetry, fiction and essays appear regularly in literary magazines, and he is the recipient of the Loft’s 1994 Award of Distinction in Poetry and the 1994 Chelsea Poetry Awards as well as fellowships from the NEA and the Bush Foundation. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he was educated at the Universities of Cincinnati and Washington and served as a member of the Macalester College English Department from 1965 to 1999. He now lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife, poet Janet Holmes.

Advanced Praise

“What’s wonderful about Alvin Greenberg is that he never steps into the same set of narrative conventions twice. In Time Lapse, he appropriates and manipulates those of crime fiction, academic satire, tryst novel, and more to deeply impressive effect, turning the story of a fastidious, contemplative, amoral professional hitman (and professor of modernist literature) into a metafiction about the nature of writing and a philosophical exploration about the nature of contingency, time’s passing, and death in our culture of violence. The result is both handsome and haunting, a challenge to us all to think about our shadow selves and a pure plain pleasure to read.” —Lance Olsen, author of Girl Imagined By Chance

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-9710310-6-7