How well do we really understand ourselves, our motives and actions? And how willing are we to share our true selves with others, to fight through our fear and sense of vulnerability to expose ourselves fully? When Scott Nadelson’s life went off the rails in 2004, he began a two-year process of excavation, scrutinizing his …
Day 20. The first day of Hanukkah. Scott Nadelson is the author of three story collections, most recently Aftermath. A winner of the Oregon Book Award for short fiction, the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize and the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award, Nadelson teaches creative writing at Willamette University and in the Rainier Writing Workshop …
“I think I discovered the Far West and some subject matter of my earlier fiction at almost the same time,” wrote Bernard Malamud about his decade in Oregon, during which he produced some of his best-known books: The Natural, The Assistant, The Magic Barrel. It was “an interesting conjunction, in imagination,” he went on, “of …
“It’s a good thing Scott Nadelson has a sense of humor; otherwise his stories could really bum you out. All eight of the stories in Aftermath begin, as you might expect, with things falling apart. Six involve romantic break ups; the other two explore parental abandonment and fallout from an accident. We sympathize with his …
