Aubrey Hirsch

4Mar/13

AWP!

I will be making a couple of appearances at AWP this year. Here's where I'll be and when. Come say hi!

Thursday night at 8:00 at The Sweetwater Tavern I'll be part of "Their Peculiar Ambitions," a reading of presidential fictions.
Starting at 10:30 Friday morning I'll be signing copies of Why We Never Talk About Sugar at the Braddock Avenue Books booth (Y17) at the bookfair.

26Feb/13

Available now!

You can now pre-order my short story collection, Why We Never Talk About Sugar! Here's the publisher's description, which I love:

Get ready. These are not your mother's bedtime stories. In this mesmerizing debut collection, Aubrey Hirsch will lead you into the darkest recesses of human life, where hope and longing and love and loss look all too much like one another. Each of these sixteen stories may be filled with its own kind of despair, but they are not despairing as Hirsch enters with deep sympathy into the souls of lonely women (Cheater, Hydrogen Event in a Bubble Chamber, Made in Indonesia), broken men (Leaving Seoul, Advice for Dealing with the Loss of a Beloved Pet), young recruits (The Specialists), and dutiful daughters (Strategy #13: Journal, No System for Blindness). With a hard intelligence, Hirsch considers the toll of heartache (Why We Never Talk About Sugar, Certainty) and loss (The Borovsky Circus Goes to Littlefield, Paradise Hardware) and the simple cost of longing. Taut and tension filled, these stories will transport you into the heart of what it means to be human. But be careful. Hirsch's compassion arrives on a knife blade. And you just may find your own heart cut open.

Get it here!

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20Feb/13

Book Cover!

Here it is, the first look at the cover of my short story collection. It will be released by Braddock Avenue Books on March 1st!

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8Jun/12

Reading in Cleveland!

This Saturday (June 9) I'm doing a reading with Mary Biddinger, Tyler Gobble, Amanda Goldblatt, Joshua Kleinberg, and Steve McGouldrick in Cleveland, Ohio. The reading will be at the Cedar Lee Pub and starts at 8. Be there!

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2May/12

Updates.

I've got some new work out in the world. Here's what's new:

An essay in the new issue of Third Coast called "Other Aubreys I Have Known." It's about me...kind of. It's about recognizing myself in other people. Here's an excerpt:

Aubrey #1

I don’t know her real name, but she is me, sort of. My friends and I call her Aubrey because she looks like me. And I mean, wow, she really looks like me. We both start college at the same school in August, but I don’t actually see her until well into October. At first, I only hear about her.

A story in CEDARS called "The News and What it Means to Noah." You can read this one online. This is a very science-y story, reflecting my love of all things particle physics. I had a great time doing the research for it and I learned a lot! Maybe you will, too. If not, there's a story in there somewhere, I promise!
A story in the new issue of Whiskey Island Magazine called "The Specialists". The website seems to be dragging behind their printer, so my piece is in issue 59 not 58, but I got my copy already and it is lovely! Here's a sample from this story:

By the end of our first day of basic, word was out that Jakewad had raped a girl once and gotten away with it. He didn’t brag about it or anything; it was Net that spread the news. They were from the same town, south of Fort Sill, and according to Net, Jakewad was famous there.

“I know you, man,” Net told Jakewad, after hearing his real name in the Reception Battalion. “You’re the guy that gave it to that cheerleader.”

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Aubrey Hirsch's stories, essays and poems have appeared in literary journals both in print and online, including American Short Fiction, Third Coast, Hobart, PANK, and others. Her short story collection, Why We Never Talk About Sugar is available now.

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