Only What Is by Richard Lawrence Cohen Paperback Book 9780595386154

A man falls in love with a woman who exists only in his dreams A young couple walks the same street day after day the husband always talking and the wifedoing what An artist sits sketching in the cemetery of a mental hospital and wishes hell someday be buried there A hopeful businessman opens a shop in a location that is doomed A vampire craves not his victims blood but their personalities Eightynine blog posts the best of the authors first year in the blogosphere Eightynine glimpses of life imagined experienced felt cherished and above all clearly seen Here are stories of people yearning for companionship parables of the unwittingly enlightened and the unknowingly benighted landscapes of desolate beauty moments of everyday tenderness and of sudden comic recognition transcending the line between fiction and nonfiction As uptodate as the blogosphere yet reaching back for its roots to ancient Taoist tales and medieval Japanese pillow books Another step forward in the evolution of a spectacular writer a distinctive voice to be heardquot The Detroit News