{"product_id":"is-it-so-glimpses-glyphs-found-novels-paperback","title":"Is It So?: Glimpses, Glyphs, \u0026 Found Novels - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKevin McIlvoy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe last work of fiction from acclaimed author Kevin McIlvoy, \u003ci\u003eIs It So? Glimpses, Glyphs, \u0026amp; Found Novels\u003c\/i\u003e showcases McIlvoy's artistic dedication to the irreal, the carnivalesque, to ghost stories, fairy tales, the short short form-- writing that thrives in the edges, margins, and borderlands. A retired dance instructor battles a flock of dive-bombing crows for control of his garden. A teacher and his students develop an uncommon bond with a toy parrot. A seeker in the alternate universe of a DMV is dispatched through numberless corridors to see the Clerk of Happiness. \u003ci\u003eIs It So?\u003c\/i\u003e tunnels deep into the recesses of long-life experience. With clear-eyed and transformative vision-and confidence in the power of truths left unspoken-- Kevin McIlvoy gifts readers \"found\" stories excavated from the everyday.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKevin \"Mc\" McIlvoy\u003c\/b\u003e published six novels, \u003ci\u003eOne Kind Favor (WTAW Press) \u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Waltz\u003c\/i\u003e (Lynx House Press), \u003ci\u003eThe Fifth Station\u003c\/i\u003e (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill; paperback, Collier\/Macmillan), \u003ci\u003eLittle Peg\u003c\/i\u003e (Atheneum\/Macmillan; paperback, Harper Perennial), \u003ci\u003eHyssop\u003c\/i\u003e (TriQuarterly Books; paperback, Avon), and \u003ci\u003eAt the Gate of All Wonder\u003c\/i\u003e (Tupelo Press); a short story collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Complete History of New Mexico \u003c\/i\u003e (Graywolf Press); and a collection of prose poems and short fictions, \u003ci\u003e57 Octaves Below Middle C\u003c\/i\u003e (Four Way Books). For twenty-seven years he was fiction editor and editor in chief of the national literary magazine, \u003ci\u003ePuerto del Sol\u003c\/i\u003e. He taught in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program in Creative Writing from 1987 to 2019; he taught as a Regents Professor of Creative Writing in the New Mexico State University MFA Program from 1981 to 2008.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 150\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.35 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 07, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51776988676384,"sku":"9781733661935","price":20.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/61716b46b790af70a37955fe84ae5e4e.webp?v=1780489794","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/is-it-so-glimpses-glyphs-found-novels-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}