New Story Collection by Alum Randolph Thomas

Now available: Dispensations, by alum Randolph Thomas (1993). This story collection won last year's Many Voices Project contest from New Rivers Press. Says Lori Ostlund: "Thomas's narrators are like the strangers that you find yourself sitting next to in a seedy bar. They draw you in, telling you their stories of estranged children and decaying parents and lives that have ended up being so much less than they had bargained for. There is sadness here but also deep compassion and nuance and surprise, as well as beautiful storytelling, and so these narrators keep you on the barstool for one more story--and then another."