Short stories by Charles D'Ambrosio
Charles D'Ambrosio is the author of two books of fiction, The Point and Other Stories and The Dead Fish Museum, and two collections of essays, Orphans, and Loitering: New & Collected Essays. Many of his stories originally appeared in The New Yorker, and he has also published fiction in The Paris Review, Zoetrope All-Story, and A Public Space. His work has been widely anthologized and selected for the Pushcart Prize, Best American Short Stories, and the O. Henry Award. His first book was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and his most recent collection, The Dead Fish Museum, was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. He has been the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Whiting Writer's Award and an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Listing 4 stories.
A bipolar screenwriter in a New York City psych ward falls in love with a depressed Yugoslavian ballerina.
Ignatius, a young orphan, develops an unlikely friendship with his bully, Donny, and Donny's father.
A young man from The Point, has been given the role of escorting older drunk party guests back to their houses.
A recovered heroin addict begins to doubt that the man she ran away with knows what is best for her future.