Every Single Bone in My Brain
2017
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Every Single Bone in My Brain is an enthralling debut story collection—by turns electric and thoughtful, comic and wise. A young music journalist tries to avoid becoming a band groupie, only to discover she has far more to offer to their music than she realized. A Jewish teenager gets involved with an alluring Mormon woman who presents an alternative to life with his dysfunctional family. And in the title story, a man whose condition—his body is a conduit for enough electricity to kill a person—forces him to live and work in isolation, uses the internet to form a relationship with a similarly reclusive woman; one that may bring them both joy or end in tragedy. Aaron Tillman’s beautiful prose and sense of fun make him an essential new voice in contemporary short fiction.
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Author
Aaron Tillman
Author · 2 books
Aaron Tillman is a fiction writer and Pushcart Prize nominee. He is a lecturer and graduate course director for the Writing Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Prior to joining the UMass Writing Program, Aaron was an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Honors Program at Newbury College, which closed in May 2019. His short story collection, Consolation Miracles, was published by Gateway Literary Press (January 2022). His short story collection, Every Single Bone in My Brain, was published by Braddock Avenue Books in 2017, and his book of critical nonfiction, Magical American Jew: The Enigma of Difference in Contemporary Jewish American Short Fiction and Film, was published by Lexington Books in 2018. Aaron received the John Gardner Memorial Prize in Fiction from Harpur Palate and a Short Story Award for New Writers from Glimmer Train Stories. His stories have appeared in many journals, including Mississippi Review, Glimmer Train Stories, Narrative Magazine, Harpur Palate, Sou'Wester, upstreet, and great weather for MEDIA. He has recorded stories for broadcast on the Words & Music program at Tufts University and for Functionally Literate Radio. His essays have appeared in The Writer's Chronicle, Studies in American Humor, Symbolism, The CEA Critic, and The Intersection of Fantasy and Native America (Mythopoeic 2009). He earned his PhD in English from University of Rhode Island, his MFA in Fiction Writing from Sarah Lawrence College, and his BA in English from Hobart College.
