Review
"The Jive, Jim Reese’s first innings as a fictioneer, is a slick curve into the heart of the plate." -- Red Shuttleworth, author of Western Settings
"These stories dramatize the extent to which both baseball and life are games most cannot stop playing...they're infectious." -- William Kloefkorn, Nebraska State Poet
"These stories dramatize the extent to which both baseball and life are games most cannot stop playing...they're infectious." -- William Kloefkorn, Nebraska State Poet
About the Author
Jim Reese is a writer, photographer and editor who grew up in Omaha, Nebraska. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where he teaches in the English department and works on the editorial staff of the Prairie Schooner. He is cofounder of and Imagining Editor for Logan House Press.
Reese's poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies: South Dakota Review, Nebraska Life, Nebraska Territory, Morpo Review, Touchstone, Plains Song Review (University of Nebraska Press), Platte Valley Review, Poetry Motel, in his first book, As Worthless As Tits On A Boar (Cacthouse Publishing 1995), his most recent collection, Wedding Cake and Funeral Ham (Grizzly Press 2002). This is his first collection of fiction.
