David Huddle

David Huddle's short fiction appears frequently in publications including Esquire, Harper's Magazine, and The Best American Short Stories. In this compelling novel, he examines the complex mixtures of longing and contentment that make up contemporary relationships. Deeply affected by a teen-aged affair with a man nearly three times her age, Marcy Bunkleman subtly shapes the lives of everyone she meets. As she and the people closest to her tell their...

Can we ever truly know another person, however well-loved? Brainy, decent, funny, and likeable, the members of Horace Houseman's family and his closest friend possess quirky and compelling interior lives that they reveal to no one else. Nothing Can Make Me Do This, David Huddle's tenth work of fiction, enters the minds of Horace, Eve, Hannah, Clara, Bill, and others over fifty years, leaping in chronology and intersecting the vantage points, in a...

David Huddle's latest collection, Blacksnake at the Family Reunion, shares intimate and amusing stories as if told by a quirky, usually reticent, great uncle. In ''Boy Story,'' a teenage romantic meeting ends abruptly when the boy's sweetheart realizes they have parked near her grandmother's grave. The poem ''Aloft'' recalls a widowed mother's indignation after she receives a marriage proposal in a hot air balloon. Haunted by the words on his older...

"Bread Loaf series of contemporary writers." A collection of stories, poems, and essays about various themes including the writing process and memoirs of being a boy in the 40s and 50s in a small Southern town.

A collection of poems by David Huddle that help chronicle the author's life experiences.

An account of spiritual survival through the practice of literary art, the poems in David Huddle?s eighth collection, Dream Sender, move among a variety of poetic forms and voices. Here, a bear wonders why he could not have been a raccoon, a bird, or a meadow; and a five-year-old thrills to the forbidden taste of whiskey as he eavesdrops on his parents? after-dinner conversation. By turns outrageous and pragmatic, Huddle?s poems acknowledge the powerful...