Dancing with Dasein and Other Stories

by Mark Morganstern

In this collection of fourteen stories-mostly set among working folks in the Hudson River Valley of New York-music, food, philosophy, and magic weave through tales that are by turns gritty, aching, and comical. Characters grapple with unfulfilled dreams in a dizzying, often alien culture. Meet a Bronx Italian Zen master with a baby and an ex-football-star partner...a young curator assigned to coddle an infamous avant-garde artist whose assistant threatens her marriage...a Homer scholar who disappears in a blizzard over a stone wall, never to be seen again...a failed graduate student who nearly gets paralyzed delivering a case of gourmet cat food to his Heidegger professor to settle a vague psychic debt...a reincarnating Ancient Egyptian chef who travels thousand of years from the banks of the Nile to a surf-crazed town in Southern California to open a bakery...and others. All are drawn with empathy and wry humor, observed through a sharp lens as they wrestle and waltz with the blunt challenge of being human-Dancing with Dasein.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692495754
• ISBN13: 9780692495759
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Recital Publishing
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"