Catherine Brady's Books
Oct.26.2010
This book illuminates how technique serves “story logic,” the particular way fiction makes meaning. Writers raid the cupboard of theory looking for what works, and generic rules don’t account for the rich variety of strategies they employ. For writers who are past the beginner stage, Brady offers a closer look at craft fundamentals, including plot, characterization, patterns of...
Apr.01.2009
Short stories set in the San Francisco Bay Area, exploring what happens when the seemingly fixed coordinates of our lives abruptly give way. The main characters share a fundamental predicament, the struggle to name and embrace some faith that can break their fall.
Nov.29.2007
Molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn--one of Time magazine's 100 "Most Influential People in the World" in 2007--made headlines in 2004 when she was dismissed from the President's Council on Bioethics after objecting to the council's call for a moratorium on stem cell research and protesting the suppression of relevant scientific evidence in its final report. But it is Blackburn...
Oct.10.2003
To read Curled in the Bed of Love is to feel the incessant tug between devotion and desire that can unmake even the closest couple. These eleven stories are set in the San Francisco Bay Area, and in true Left Coast style, Catherine Brady's characters are as resolute in evading middle-class conformity as they are in clinging to their illusions about love. And while they never shy...
About Catherine
Catherine Brady is the author of three short story collections. The Mechanics of Falling was the recipient of the 2010 Northern California Book Award in Fiction. Curled in the Bed of Love was the winner of the 2002 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction,...
Connections
Causes Catherine Brady Supports
The Eva Gunther Foundation; (Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation (VONA); IPAS (reproductive rights for women in the third world)