Half-Lives

Lynn Schmeidler

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Autumn House Press
05 July 2024

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories; Gender studies: women

Winner of the2023 Rising Writer Prize, Half-Lives is aplayful debut short story collection imagining women's lives in a world free of social limitations.

Amid heightened restrictions about what women can and cannot do with their bodies, Lynn Schmeidler's collection is a humane, absurd, and timely collection of narratives centering on women's bodies and psyches. Lively and experimental, these sixteen stories explore girlhood, sexuality, motherhood, identity, and aging in a world where structures of societal norms, narrative, gender, and sometimes even physics do not apply.

The protagonists grapple with the roles they choose and with those that are thrust upon them as they navigate their ever-evolving emotional lives: A woman lists her vagina on Airbnb, Sleeping Beauty is a yoga teacher who lies in state on the dais of her mother's studio, and a museum intern writes a confession of her affair in the form of a hijacked museum audio guide

By: Lynn Schmeidler
Imprint: Autumn House Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 367g
ISBN: 9781637680919
ISBN 10: 1637680910
Pages: 166
Publication Date: 05 July 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product

Lynn Schmeidler's is the recipient of a Sewanee Writers' Conference Tennessee Williams scholarship in fiction and has been awarded residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for Creative Arts. In addition to her short story collection Half-Lives, she has published one poetry book,History of Gone(Veliz Books, shortlisted for the Sexton Prize and finalist for the Anhinga-Robert Dana Prize), and two poetry chapbooks,Wrack Lines(Grayson Books, Finalist for the Two Sylvias Chapbook Prize and the Comstock Review Jessie Bryce Niles Chapbook Prize) andCuriouser & Curiouser(Winner of the Grayson Books Chapbook Prize). She earned a BA from Yale University and an MEd from Lesley College. She lives in the Hudson Valley.

Reviews for Half-Lives

"“Half-Lives is an extraordinary debut, an endlessly smart, endlessly cool, endlessly moving collection full of evocative desire and wonder. Schmeidler has a gift for hooky, high concept openings, plus the chops to deliver on those promises in ways you might not see coming. I’ve rarely been so consistently surprised by a short story writer; I can’t wait to reread these stories and be amazed all over again.” -- Matt Bell, author of ""Appleseed"""