Neorealist in Winter

Salvatore Pane was born and raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He is the author of two novels, Last Call in the City of Bridges and The Theory of Almost Everything, and a book of nonfiction, Mega Man 3. His work has appeared in Indiana Review, American Short Fiction, Story Magazine, and many others. He has also written video games and graphic novels, and his textbook, Story Mode: Writing Narrative Video Games for Everyone, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury. Pane is associate professor at the University of St. Thomas and lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

"Eleven stories that cast different facets of Italian American identity in a neo-noir light. . . . A cinematic thread weaves through them, and it can feel as though scenes are written with the camera in mind, what with dramatic last-minute trains to Siena, British hand models riding in shiny cars, and deals made while picking at shrimp cocktails. . . . It’s in these stories that Pane’s sense of play is most evident, and they buoy the collection. Vivid fiction that asks how you can run from your past when it made you who you are."

• 1) The Neorealist in Winter2) Her Final Nights3) The Electric City4) The Complete Oral History of Monkey High School5) Do I Amuse You?6) Take It Out of Me7) Mamma-draga8) The Faith Center9) Zeitgeist Comics, 194610) The Absolutely True Autobiography of Tony Rinaldi, the Man who Changed Pro Wrestling Forever11) The Last Train to Siena