Short stories by Frederick Busch
Frederick Busch (August 1, 1941 – February 23, 2006) was an American writer. Busch was a prolific author of short stories and novels. Busch was born in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Muhlenberg College and earned a master's degree from Columbia. He was professor of literature at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York from 1966 to 2003. He won numerous awards, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters Fiction Award in 1986 and the PEN/Malamud Award in 1991. He died in Manhattan, New York City, aged 64. He is the father of actor Benjamin Busch. And Nicholas Busch also a graduate of Muhlenberg College, 1995.
Listing 5 stories.
A disgruntled magazine proofreader returns to his childhood home in attempt to repair his parents' ongoing divorce.
Facing two unwilling booksellers in a bankruptcy case, a lawyer is forced to reckon with arson and a faked death.
A man attempting to write a book on the Iraq war has flashbacks of violence from his time with a group of marines he accompanied as a journalist. The book centers around a man who is a stand-in for himself, who later tells his stories to an Israeli business man who is actually an intelligence agent in a bar in Frankfurt.
Despite being on the verge of failing his English class, a forty-two-year old college student finds himself saving a life at his university.
An overweight man from New York tries to get his girlfriend to marry him so that when he dies, she will receive his life insurance, but when the woman's ex comes around, the relationship begins to fall apart.